Fried Whitebait with Spicy Tomato Sauce

Ingredients
10 Whitebait
1 egg beaten
50g flour
500ml vegetable oil for deep-frying

For the spicy tomato sauce
2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
0.5 onion, diced and sweated
1 garlic clove, crushed
400g canned tomatoes, roughly chopped
1 tsp Paprika
1 pinch salt and fresh ground black pepper

Method
1. Start with the tomato sauce by heating the olive oil in a saucepan over medium heat.  Add the onions and garlic, cover and leave to sweat for 2 minutes.  Add the tomatoes and paprika and season with salt and freshly ground pepper. Cook for a further 5 minutes.

2. Meanwhile, coat the whitebait first in beaten egg then flour while heating the vegetable oil for deep-frying in a wok or deep fat-fryer. Fry the whitebait in the hot oil until golden. Remove and drain on kitchen paper. Serve at once with the spicy tomato sauce drizzled over.

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