Sardines Naturally Fresh 2kg – Great Flavour
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Can you eat Sardines Fresh
Freshly grilled sardines simply seasoned with sea salt, parsley, lemon juice and a touch of chilli are beautiful and tasty.
They are less fishy than the canned variety, so if you want to give them a go, try the fresh stuff first. Either pan-fry or grill them.
Are Fresh Sardines healthier than Canned
While fresh sardines are the better choice, we recognize that this choice isn’t always available. Sardines Naturally Fresh 2kg
To get the most health benefits from your canned sardines, shop with care.
Look for sardines packed in water, and if you can’t find a brand without any added salt, simply give them a good rinse.
Sardines with Chilli, garlic and lemon
Seasoned simply with chilli and lemon and popped on the barbecue, these succulent sardines are the ideal summer supper.
A crisp, dry white wine will bring out the flavour of the fish. Sauvignon Blanc Val de Loire, with its bright citrus fruit, is a wonderful choice. Sardines Naturally Fresh 2kg
Ingredients
- 1 lemon, zested and juiced, plus extra 2 lemons, halved
- 1 red chilli, deseeded and finely chopped
- 1 garlic clove, crushed
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 8 x 100g (3 1/2oz) sardines, gutted (see tip)
- few drops Tabasco
- mixed salad, to serve
Method
- In a small bowl, mix together the lemon zest and 2 tsp lemon juice with the chilli, garlic and oil. Season with salt and freshly ground black pepper.
- Cut small slits on one side of each sardine.
- Rub the lemon and oil mixture all over the sardines, rubbing well into the slits and body cavity.
- Cook the sardines on a preheated barbecue (or over a medium-high heat in a griddle pan) for 3 minutes each side, until cooked through and the flesh flakes away easily from the bone.
- Put the lemon halves, cut-side-down, next to the fish for the final 3 minutes of the cooking time.
- Serve the sardines with a few drops of Tabasco, the grilled lemon halves and the mixed salad.
HOW TO EAT FOR THE FIRST TIME?
One of the best ways to eat sardine is fried.
- Better yet, make a fritter out of them!
- Fish cakes are a delicious way to use sardines with minimal ingredients.
- Another is a good dip or pate, where sardines are disguised by other ingredients.
- You can customise the taste with different spices too.
- Here are some interesting facts to begin with;
- Clupeidae, the family of fish to which they belong, is a primarily marine .
- Sardine in popular culture, are typically tightly packed in a small, flat can.
- Sarine fishes from the Herring family, Clupeidae, especially members of the genera Sardina, Sardinops, and Sardinella; the name sardine can also refer to the common herring (Clupea harengus) and to other small herrings or herring like fishes when canned in oil.
- The European (Sardina, or Clupea pilchardus)—known as pilchard in Britain—occurs in the Mediterrean Sea and off the Atlantic coasts of Spain, Portugal, France, and Britain.
- Clupea harengus is found throughout the North Atlantic, including coastal North America.
- The five recognized species of the genus Sardinops are so similar that they are sometimes classified as the single species S. sagax.
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