WHITEBAIT FARINATA

Ingredients:

500 Gr. Chickpea flour

2 deciliters extra virgin olive oil

2 l. water

200 Gr. whitebait (bianchetti)

Salt

How to prepare it:

Wash the whitebait and let them strain in a strainer. Pour water in a large bowl and add slowly the chickpea flour into it: keep stirring it and add salt. Keep stirring the ingredients to melt lumps, if any. Once the batter is thin enough, let it stand for half hour at least. Skim the surface of the batter and pour it into a baking sheet with oil in it. Mix carefully the batter and the extra virgin olive oil. Before putting it into the oven sprinkle the surface of the batter with the whitebait. Let it cook at a high heat for about 10 minutes, turn the baking sheet to have the farinata cooked uniformly. When removing from the oven, sprinkle it with black pepper.