Set aside. To cook the whitebait, preheat the oil in a deep-fat fryer to 200C. Have ready a wire rack set over a tray, to ...

As they are frozen produce, whitebait are available all year. There are concerns about the sustainability of whitebait because they are harvested in large quantities, which puts pressure on stocks.

This is serious decadence — two whitebait fritters with a piece of fresh sauteed snapper sandwiched between, and a deliciously rich caper and egg mayonnaise to bring it together.

“There was no current, every six feet there was a willow that had fallen, there was absolutely no tidal flow, it was dead - the fish couldn’t get up there, the whitebait couldn’t get up ther ...