Crumbled Baked Sardine Fillets

This dish can only really be made with fresh sardines. Sardines are great for grilling whole on a barbecue or under the grill, but the small bones can often be too much hard work. So for this dish, ask your fishmonger to scale and fillet them for you. If they are from large sardines you will only need three or four fillets a portion as a starter. Some of the small bones within the fillets can be removed with a small knife or tweezers. Any remaining ones are quite edible as for tinned sardin