Instructions: Fresh sardines are something really special; they taste lovely and are cheap and highly nutritious. They are definitely underrated. Whole gritted or baked sardines are beautiful but I am giving you a recipe thats a bit different and classy the filling going in the direction of a kind of panzanella. When buying always look for shiny glassyeyed pleasantsmelting sardines.

preparing:
Scrape the scales from the fish with a knife (try not to cut the skin). Cut off the head slit open the belly and remove the innards under cold running water. Open out the inside of the sardine just Like a book press and flatten the sides down with your thumbs. Pull out the backbone from the head end

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