Marinated Anchovies

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    four

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Recipes from My Spanish Grandmother: The Real Taste of Spain in 150 Traditional Dishes

By Pepita Aris

Published 2013

  • About

This is one of the simplest ways to prepare these tiny fish because it requires no cooking. Marinating is particularly associated with anchovies, which tend to lose their freshness very quickly. The Spanish term for marinated anchovies is boquerones, while Anchoas is their word for the canned, salted variety.

Ingredients

  • 225 g/8 oz fresh anchovies, heads and tails removed, and split open along the belly
  • juice of 3 lem

Method

  1. Turn the anchovies on to their bellies, and press down with your thumb.

  2. Using the tip of a small, sharp knife, carefully remove the backbones from the flattened fish, and arrange the anchovies skin side down in a single layer on a large plate.
  3. Sq