Sicilian stuffed sardines
Sicilian stuffed sardines

Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, sicilian stuffed sardines. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Sicilian stuffed sardines is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Sicilian stuffed sardines is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

Arrange the rolled-up sardines on the fennel, scatter over the remaining crumb mixture, then pop the slices of lemon and bay leaves in the gaps. Drizzle with the remaining olive oil and season with sea salt and pepper. Stuffed sardines is a typical Sicilian fish course particularly associated with the city of Palermo. The basis of the dish, which is well-known and appreciated throughout Italy, is the sardine, a tasty and filling fish that has been included in the list of traditional Italian food products.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have sicilian stuffed sardines using 14 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Sicilian stuffed sardines:
  1. Get 85 g fresh breadcrumb
  2. Make ready 50 g black olive, stoned and roughly chopped
  3. Take large handful parsley, roughly chopped
  4. Take handful mint leaves, finely chopped
  5. Get 1 lemon, zested and sliced
  6. Take 4 anchovy fillets
  7. Prepare 1 garlic clove, crushed
  8. Get 25 g pine nut
  9. Get 25 g sultana
  10. Take pinch chilli flakes (optional)
  11. Take 1 large fennel bulb, finely sliced, fronds reserved
  12. Get 3 tbsp olive oil
  13. Prepare 8 sardines, butterflied with tails kept intact
  14. Prepare 8 bay leaves

Just take out the main spinal bone and the larger bones will follow. They are such a versatile fish, a far cry from the tinned variety that we grew up on here in Australia. Clean sardines of scales, head and guts, Then pry one side open with the aid of a knife, making sure you leave the. other side attached, as in picture to the right. Pull away the bone going along the whole fish.

Instructions to make Sicilian stuffed sardines:
  1. Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Put the breadcrumbs, olives, parsley, mint, lemon zest, anchovies and garlic in a food processor, and blitz until everything is roughly chopped. Tip into a bowl and stir through the pine nuts, sultanas, chilli flakes (if using) and a good grinding of black pepper. Arrange the fennel slices in a small roasting dish and drizzle with a little olive oil
  2. Working methodically, lay each fish fillet, skin-side down, on your work surface, cover with some of the crumb mixture, then drizzle ½ tsp olive oil over each. Roll up the fillets, leaving the tails sticking up. Use a cocktail stick to secure, then stuff a little more of the crumb mixture into the sides.
  3. Arrange the rolled-up sardines on the fennel, scatter over the remaining crumb mixture, then pop the slices of lemon and bay leaves in the gaps. Drizzle with the remaining olive oil and season with sea salt and pepper. Bake in the oven for 20 mins until the fish is cooked through and the crumbs are golden and crisp in places. Serve scattered with the fennel fronds.

Clean sardines of scales, head and guts, Then pry one side open with the aid of a knife, making sure you leave the. other side attached, as in picture to the right. Pull away the bone going along the whole fish. Wash the sardines and pat dry with a paper towel, and set aside Stuffed Sardines Beccafico ("Sarde a Beccafico" - "Sardi a Beccaficu") Beccafico (Sylvia borin), a Sylvidae bird is larger, meatier and more exquisite than a sparrow, nests in Tuscany and passes over Sicily in spring and in the fall for the winter migration. Place the sardines with their tails sticking up, all in the same direction and close together, in the baking dish. Place the slices of lemon and orange and the bay leaves decoratively around the dish, at the sides or in between the sardines.

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