Whoever Smelt It...
From keni 14 years ago
- 30 to make
- Serves 6
Can you tell a boy named this? ;) This smelt is deep fried after a coating of Old Bay tempura batter with or without a Panko finish. Please have fresh lemon wedges for serving because a sprinkle of it over the fresh fried fish makes all the difference!
Ingredients
- 2lbs fresh smelt, whole or cleaned* shopping list
- 2cups dry buttermilk baking mix(or equivalent home made) shopping list
- 1 1/2-2 cups tonic or other unflavored carbonated water shopping list
- 2t cayenne(or to taste) shopping list
- 1T Old Bay Seasoning shopping list
- dash of hot sauce shopping list
- 2-3 cups panko bread crumbs(depending on how much of the smelt you are going to add this coating to :) shopping list
- peanut or canola oil for frying shopping list
How to make it
- Bring oil to between 350-370.
- In a deep dish pie plate, combine baking mix and tonic, stirring slowly and gently, until well mixed.
- Add cayenne, Old bay and hot sauce and mix just to combine.
- If using Panko, add to another deep dish pie plate.
- Using the wet to dry method, dip smelt in tempura batter then either add right to oil or drop in Panko then add to the oil.
- These will fry in about 2 minutes, so watch them carefully.
- Remove from oil when golden brown.
- Repeat with remaining smelt. You can fry several of these at the same time, unlike some other fried foods, because they fry so quickly and they don't really cool the oil down.
- Serve with lemon wedges.
- *Smelt can be eaten whole, like sardines, or they may be sold cleaned, which means gutted and no heads. Either way, there are bones, but you won't even know they are there. :)
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