Frittata di Rossetti

“Redbait” Omelette

Preparation info
  • Makes

    2 to 4

    servings
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in

By Fred Plotkin

Published 1997

  • About

The term redbait has a different and unattractive connotation in American English than rossetti in Italian, but there is not a proper English term to describe the fry (newborn fish) of red mullet. In Liguria, bianchetti (or gianchetti in dialect) are whitebait, or the fry of anchovies. Rossetti, to Ligurians, are just as delicious but they taste slightly different. This recipe was taught to me by an old fisherman who wears an eyepatch and is well known to