Stuffed sardines
Description
If you love fish dishes, you’ll definitely love stuffed sardines . This simple and tasty dish, made with bluefish , is ideal as a main course during a fish-based lunch or dinner.
Widely popular throughout the peninsula, with some regional variations (such as the cooking method, which can be pan-fried or baked), the recipe for stuffed sardines is also a classic Sicilian dish . If you want to prepare them Sardinian-style, simply follow our recipe.
Ingredients
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- Sardine 1000 g
- Eggs 1
- Egg whites 1
- Stale bread crumbs 50 g
- Parsley 1 ciuffi
- Sardinian Pecorino 30 g
- Garlic 1 spicchi
- Salted anchovies 2
- UHT full cream milk Arborea 150 ml
- Salt q.b.
- Pepper q.b.
- Breadcrumbs q.b.
- Extra virgin olive oil q.b.
- Semolina flour q.b.
- Frying oil q.b.
Instructions
- 1 When you're preparing stuffed sardines, you need to make sure you have some nice, fresh fish. Start by washing the sardines under running water, removing the heads and guts, leaving the tails on, rinsing them thoroughly, opening them out like a book, drying them thoroughly, and placing them on a plate.
- 2 Cook the filling. While you clean the sardines, soak the breadcrumbs in milk, rinse the anchovies under running water to remove the salt, and finely chop them along with the garlic clove and parsley. Squeeze the stale bread well and combine all the ingredients in a bowl along with 1 whole egg and 1 egg white, a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil, and the grated pecorino cheese. Season everything with a little salt and pepper and begin working the mixture with your hands. If it's too soft, add a little more breadcrumbs.
- 3 Stuff the sardines, one by one, placing a spoonful of filling in the center and closing them to hold the filling in.
- 4 Coat the sardines in semolina flour and fry them in plenty of oil. When they're ready, drain them and place them on a plate lined with paper towels to drain the excess. Season the stuffed sardines with salt and serve hot. Enjoy!
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Did You Know?
Stuffed sardines
are a delicious and
tasty
dish to prepare and are one of the many typical
Sardinian
recipes .
Fish is a fundamental ingredient in Italian cuisine, and
sardines
are certainly a must-have on our tables.
Their flavour is very similar to that of anchovies , they can be served
boneless
,
in
fillets
,
hot
or cold and are perfect with any combination.
The recipe that was proposed to you makes them even better, because they are fried , golden and crunchy , with a filling based on
eggs
,
grated cheese
, breadcrumbs, parsley and
lemon
.
They are really simple to prepare and can be cooked for an aperitif with friends, as an appetizer or as a second course.
Sardines are a basic ingredient widely used in Palermo and the rest of Sicily to cook the famous recipe for pasta with sardines Palermo-style or sardines a
beccafico
.
When the fish meat is fresh, it is served marinated. The marinade can be made in red wine vinegar or
lemon
.
In Veneto, sardines are used to cook the recipe for
sardines in saor
, a typical Venetian dish seasoned with onions cooked in vinegar, raisins, and pine nuts. Furthermore, in the province of Treviso there is a festival
the Sardinian goddess festival
.
Finally, in Liguria, sardines are the basis of the traditional dish of stuffed sardines, prepared with
fillets
Stuffed sardines. The filling is made with a mixture of lettuce, chard, or spinach.
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