Venetian Sweet and Sour Sardines

This sweet and sour staple of Venetian cuisine is usually served as cicchetti, a small appetiser enjoyed with an aperitif. Saor is the Venetian dialect word for flavour, referring to the way that first frying then marinating the sardines for a few days gives them such a distinctive love-it-or-hate-it pungency.

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