Sardines St Clements

Yesterday coming out of the fog and lack of appetite from AstraZeneca I had a delicious lunch of chilli sardines with orange and rocket salad. What a lovely way to get my appetite back and no wonder I was excited to find fresh filleted sardines on sale today!  

This is not really like the whole sardines I had yesterday but a variant of a recipe I found years ago in a book by Lorenza de Medici. The name is from the combination of lemon and orange in my recipe. I used ready-made breadcrumbs with lemon, pepper and parsley but you could use whatever you have. I ate mine with rocket and some potatoes I had previously roasted. Delicious! 

Ingredients 

1/2 orange

1/2 lemon

25gr pinenuts

1 tsp Sambal oelek

Breadcrumbs 

500 gr filletted sardines

Mode

Preheat oven to 160c

Juice the orange and lemon

Arrange the sardines in an ovenproof dish

Sprinkle breadcrumbs over

Add the orange and lemon juice

Sprinkle over the pinenuts and Sambal oelek

Bake in 160c oven for 40 minutes