Cooking with Slinwagh: Sardines on toast.

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Ingredients.

3 Sardines.
Cherry tomatoes.
2 Shallots.
Two cloves of garlic.
Fresh Basil.
Ciabatta.
Extra virgin olive oil.
Salt and Pepper.

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Fillet the fish, take a sharp knife, whip of the tails and heads, slice open the belly and remove the insides.

To fillet, take the knife and slice the fish either side of the backbone, you can "feel" the bone with the knife. Set aside on a plate.

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Crush 1 clove of garlic with the back of a knife and rub into the bread with some olive oil.

Finely chop the shallots, and other garlic clove, add a slug of olive oil to a pan and gently cook the the shallots and garlic.

Take the tomatoes and half them, add to the pan and cook down on a high heat, tear some fresh basil and throw in.

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Place the sardine fillets on an baking tray, drizzle with olive oil and add some rock salt and pepper.

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Toast the bread both sides, keep warm and set aside.

Grill the fish until the they just start to golden and the skin crisps, remove from the grill.

Finally spoon the tomatoes, garlic and shallots on the bread and place the sardines on top.

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Don't worry about the bones that are in the sardines, they are safe to eat and virtually disappear when cooked!!
 
wow i could never cook that but it looks fantastic!

You could, all of the cooking threads I have posted are Gordon Ramsay recipes or slight variations of, with this, not with that etc.

I have just done a few times that's all, practice makes perfect.

The thing for me is to be organised and then you don't have to flap around looking for ingredients and risking burning something!
 
The Sardines on toast is dirt cheap too.

I had 4 Sardines, total cost £1.04

The only thing I have bought in for it was the ciabatta on Saturday.

I already had the shallots, basil and tomatoes in.

A rough guess the total cost for 3 people was roughly £4, £4.50 max

Now what can you buy for £1.50 a head that is that fresh and goods for you. OK it takes a little time, not as much as you would think but I actually love to do it so it is win win.

I have always cooked but the whole Channel 4 food fight got me really thinking about what we eat and where it comes from.
 
I have always cooked but the whole Channel 4 food fight got me really thinking about what we eat and where it comes from.

Same. I've always enjoyed cooking, but I've never really thought about where the food comes from or what it may (not) contain. It's not made me buy all organic or free range this that and the other, but things like egg and chicken and other meat, where possible. Stuff like buying meat from the butchers, too.
 
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