Pesce in Saor

Sweet-and-Sour Fish

Preparation info
  • Serves

    6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Antonio Carluccio – The Collection

By Antonio Carluccio

Published 2012

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Ingredients

  • 800 g fresh sardines, scaled and cleaned
  • flour, for dusting
  • olive oil, for shallow-frying
  • 500

Method

Dust the cleaned fish with flour, then shallow-fry in olive oil until crisp and brown on both sides. Drain well on kitchen paper, then arrange the sardines in a single layer in a shallow dish.

Gently fry the onions in the same pan, adding a little more oil if necessary, until soft, then add the pine nuts, sultanas and sugar. Stir well, then add the wine vinegar and allow to evaporate a