Les Sardines Grillees

Name: Les Sardines Grillees
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 8 min
Total time: 23 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: olive oil; juice of ½ lemon; salt and pepper; 12 fresh sardines, gutted and gills removed but heads left on; 1 garlic clove, chopped finely; 1 tablespoon dried fennel seeds

Grilled sardines

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
25 min

Appears in

The Cooking of Provence

By Patricia Lousada

Published 1995

About

It is wonderful that fresh sardines are now available in this country because they are surely one of the tastiest of all fish. With their glistening silver skin and succulent flesh, I cannot pass them by when I see them on a fish counter. They need only the simplest of preparations–grilling or frying.

Ingredients

12 fresh sardines, gutted and gills removed but heads left on
1 garlic clove, chopped finely
1 tablespoon <

Method

Preheat the grill. Rub the sardines with kitchen paper to remove any loose scales. Sprinkle the inner cavities with garlic and fennel seeds, and brush both sides with olive oil. Salt lightly. Grill them under a hot grill about 5 cm (2 inches) below the heat source for about 3–4 minutes each side. Handle them carefully, using a spatula to keep them intact. Place them on a heated platter and sque