Download Fried whole sardines with olives, pine nuts and parsley - Seafood
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Ingredients

  • 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
  • ¼ cup pine nuts
  • 2 cloves garlic, finely sliced
  • 16 whole sardines, heads removed
  • 1 cup unbleached white flour
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 2 tbsp small green olives
  • ¼ cup preserved lemon, finely sliced
  • ½ cup curly parsley, roughly chopped
  • lemon quarters, for squeezing

Method

Heat the olive oil in a broad, shallow pan. Throw in the pine nuts and sliced garlic and keep them moving as they brown.

Lightly dust each sardine with flour and drop into the pan. Sprinkle with a little salt then toss in the olives, preserved lemon and parsley and cook for 3 minutes. Turn fish over to fry another 1-2 minutes.

To serve 

Dish up while hot and crunchy with a squeeze of lemon.