Stuffed sardines with apples and herbs
Source of Recipe
My own invention
Recipe Introduction
This is something I came up with recently. It was very tasty and I served it with mashed potatoes and salad. Perfect food! You can also use herrings and mackarel instead of fresh sardines. Just follow the same method. You can also use dill and lemon as part of the filling too.
List of Ingredients
To serve 2:
4 medium sized fresh sardines
1 apple (any type you like)
2 chopped spring onions / scallions
some chopped parsley
freshly ground pepper
salt
1 beaten egg
some plain flour or fine maize meal.
Recipe
First clean and gutt the fish. Then press along the back of the fish to loosen the backbone. Then flip over and with a sharp knife, remove the backbone and the pin bones that have come loose with the pressing. This is the best way to fillet a fish as it removes 98% of the bones and now you get a whole flat fillet. Remove any rogue bones. Repeat with the rest of fish.
Then grate the apple and mix it with rest of ingredients apart from the egg and plain flour or maize meal.
Taking one whole fillet, spread the apple filling on the flesh side. Then fit another fillet on top to sandwich the filling. Leave aside while you do the other pair of fish.
Heat a frying pan with some olive oil. You may use butter if you prefer. Then carefully dip the fish "sandwich" into the beaten egg and then into the plain flour or maize meal to coat evenly. Then carefully put the fish into the frying pan. Fry each side till golden brown over medium heat- usually take about 5-10 minutes on each side depending on the thickness of fish fillet.
You can barbeque them over hot charcoal using a bbq grill basket (the ones you can grill fish, burgers etc over the bbq)
Serve hot with anything you like. Mashed potatoes, rice, buttered noodles, salad, in a bun or baguette or thick chips. Yummy!
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