A dish from aristocratic Sicilian cuisine

Excellent summer dish to be enjoyed even cold. They are sardine rolls with orange flavor.

Ingredients for 5 people

1 Kg Sardines
q.s. Extra virgin olive oil
100 g Raisins (passolina)
100 g Pine nuts
1 spoon Sugar
q.s. Salt and pepper
1 Bay leaves
q.b. Fresh parsley
q.s. Parsley
1 Orange juice

Process

Sarde a beccafico

Prepare the sardines, cleaning them from the bones and placing them open on a plate after washing them.
Brown the breadcrumbs in a pan with olive oil and then set a generous spoonful of it aside.

Now, in a bowl, mix the breadcrumbs with the juice of half an orange, the raisins, the pine nuts, the anchovy fillets, the chopped garlic, the sugar, the salt, the pepper, the parsley and a little 'olive oil.

Mix the dough well and stuff each sardine by rolling it up starting from the head towards the tail.
Arrange them on a baking tray, greased with oil, next to each other so that they do not open.
Insert a few bay leaves between them and pour a drizzle of olive oil over them. Sprinkle with the breadcrumbs you had set aside.
Bake for 10 minutes at 180°.
Enjoy your meal!

Nutritional tab

Calories kcal: 250

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