Sarde a Beccafico

Baked Stuffed Sardines

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
The Italian Regional Cookbook

By Valentina Harris

Published 2017

  • About

Beccafico, literally translated from the Italian as ‘pecker of figs’, are little birds that like to hang by their feet from ripe figs and peck away at the sweet flesh of the fruits. You might (or might not!) see a resemblance between them and the stuffed sardines, with their rounded bellies and beak-like tails. This particular recipe comes from the eastern side of Sicily.