Name: Bengali Whitebait Bites
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1 tsp ground cumin; 50 g/2 oz/⅓ cup plain/all-purpose flour; 1 cm/½ inch piece of fresh root ginger, peeled and roughly chopped; 3 garlic cloves, roughly chopped; 50 g/2 oz/scant ½ cup gram/chickpea flour; 400 g/14 oz whitebait; juice of 1 lime; 1 tsp ground turmeric; 2 tsp chilli powder; 4 tbsp vegetable oil; 1 tbsp rice flour; salt

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
25 min

Appears in

Mowgli Street Food

By Nisha Katona

Published 2018

About

Goodness, Bengalis love whitebait. We are the ultimate fish lovers and this dish has the wonderful accessibility of also being perfect finger food. On the streets of India we buy these in generous paper cones and walk along, knocking them back with gay abandon. I had whitebait served similarly in Seville, a gorgeous crunch but I did miss the spice.