Frog's - Fried

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: 1 hr 15 mins
• 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.