Thread: Whitebait patties - recipe ideas

I mean to have a couple of whitebait dinners shortly and I have the standard West Coast recipe with white bread, butter, tom sauce!!, and patties done in egg with touch of lemon, salt and black pepper. Wondering however if someone has recipe variations.

The above makes for a pretty bland sandwich - perhaps necessarily so because whitebait do have a very mild taste and that's the chief ingredient. But are there other recipes that could add flavour while still staying in whitebait taste zone. Maybe herbs/spices added, different ways to prepare the patties??, or good salads etc to add some character...

Originally Posted by mudgripz

I mean to have a couple of whitebait dinners shortly and I have the standard West Coast recipe with white bread, butter, tom sauce!!, and patties done in egg with touch of lemon, salt and black pepper. Wondering however if someone has recipe variations.

The above makes for a pretty bland sandwich - perhaps necessarily so because whitebait do have a very mild taste and that's the chief ingredient. But are there other recipes that could add flavour while still staying in whitebait taste zone. Maybe herbs/spices added, different ways to prepare the patties??, or good salads etc to add some character...

WTF??? I have yet to meet a West Coaster that puts fucking tomato sauce on their whitebait. Theyre 100% an imposter. I know pubs and restaurants that would ban them for life if they found out.

If Dundee sees your original post I will never live it down

Will pm you my Grandads recipe we have used as long as I have been eating the stuff and it has never changed.


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Originally Posted by R93

WTF??? I have yet to meet a West Coaster that puts fucking tomato sauce on their whitebait. Theyre 100% an imposter. I know pubs and restaurants that would ban them for life if they found out.

If Dundee sees your original post I will never live it down

Will pm you my Grandads recipe we have used as long as I have been eating the stuff and it has never changed.


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Your patties are edible


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Don't jump up and down girls ... I may be wrong about the tom sauce!

One lb of whitebait given to me by old Coaster couple of years back with stern instructions to follow old coast recipe. Which is why I'm looking for alternatives

Originally Posted by MSL

Your patties are edible


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Really? That edible whitebait I was saving for April might get eaten before hand

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It was a compliment, I’m trying my best.


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Originally Posted by MSL

It was a compliment, I’m trying my best.


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Lol Try harder.... Edible... My wife's steaks are edible but she hasn't cooked one for me for years.

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Originally Posted by R93

WTF??? I have yet to meet a West Coaster that puts fucking tomato sauce on their whitebait. Theyre 100% an imposter. I know pubs and restaurants that would ban them for life if they found out.

If Dundee sees your original post I will never live it down

Will pm you my Grandads recipe we have used as long as I have been eating the stuff and it has never changed.


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tomato sauce is the only thing that makes whitebait edible!! and have some taste

Originally Posted by mikee

tomato sauce is the only thing that makes whitebait edible!! and have some taste

Nup. Not gunna say a thing....

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Tomato sauce on white bait,what a bloody insult.Youd get banned from the Haast republic.

At the risk of getting flamed by the whitebait purists, I have a recipe that I'm wanting to give a go and I'm happy to let you be the Guinea Pig.

I have a base recipe for potato and carrot fritters... basically grated spuds and carrots. Wash in colander to remove potatoe starch then hand mix with a couple of dustings of flour. A very light smattering of red onion, salt and pepper. Cook in frying pan with plenty of oil. If done correctly you get these outstanding crunchy fritters. Last time I whipped them up I thought - damn these would be fantastic with a huge dollop of whitebait on top. You'd have to make the traditional egg and flour mix for the whitebait then add the whitebait towards the end when the potatoe fritter is getting close to being cooked. End result should be outstanding. In theory.

Originally Posted by mikee

tomato sauce is the only thing that makes whitebait edible!! and have some taste

Bloody infidel...

Originally Posted by mikee

tomato sauce is the only thing that makes whitebait edible!! and have some taste

Off with his head! I say

Originally Posted by mudgripz

patties done in egg with touch of lemon, salt and black pepper. .

Used to serve in a restaurant, the following:

cut a garlic clove in half and rub it around the inside of a glass or ceramic bowl, not metal and preferably not plastic, then 200 g whitebait, a pinch of salt , a hint of white pepper and 1 or 2 eggs depending on the size of the eggs. i.e. 1 big, 2 small.

The idea is to hold the whitebait together when cooking, not "pad" them out.

Fried in tablespoonfuls in butter, until the edges of the fritter, brown slightly, served with lemon wedges on the side.

They're are bastard to fillet too

Originally Posted by mikee

tomato sauce is the only thing that makes whitebait edible!! and have some taste