Frog's - Fried

Submitted by Daniela Buia

"Simple ingredients for a really unusual but VERY posh evening. That is, if you can find the frogs! (from my great grandmother's Italian cookbook dated 1924!)"

 

• Ready In: 1hr 15mins
• Ingredients: 9
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• frogs
• flour
• egg

• Marinade

• dry white wine
• salt
• pepper
• parsley
• onion
• nutmeg

directions

1. After carefully cleaning the frogs (both inside and out) and washing them in running water, place them in a bowl with a marinade composed of white wine, a dash of salt and pepper, some finely chopped parsley, about 1/2 a finely chopped onion and a trace of nutmeg.
2. Stir well and let them marinate for at least one hour.
3. Lift out the frogs from the marinade and dry them in a clean cloth.
4. Pass them in flour then in a beaten egg and fry in nicely hot virgin olive oil.
5. Serve hot with lemon.