← All recipes
🍽️ Citrus-Marinated Sardines with Fennel
175 kcal · 25 min · 4 servings
Cook this free in the MyFoody app →
Ingredients
- 16 fresh sardines (ready for the kitchen)
- salt
- Pepper (from the mill)
- 3 tbsp flour
- 100 ml olive oil
- 1 clove garlic
- 1 tbsp basil (finely chopped)
- 1 tbsp parsley (finely chopped)
- 1 lemon (juice)
- 1 tbsp balsamic vinegar
- 2 fennel bulbs (with greens)
- lemons (juice)
- 15 black olives (pitted and roughly chopped)
Instructions
- 1. Halve the sardines and carefully remove the bones.
- 2. Rinse the fish under cold water and pat them dry with kitchen paper.
- 3. Season the sardines with salt, pepper, and a splash of lemon juice.
- 4. Coat the fish lightly in flour.
- 5. Heat olive oil in a pan and fry the sardines in batches for a short time over high heat.
- 6. Place the fried sardines in a baking dish.
- 7. Whisk together 4 tablespoons of olive oil with pressed garlic, fresh herbs, lemon juice, and vinegar.
- 8. Pour the marinade over the sardines in the dish.
- 9. Let the sardines marinate in the refrigerator for 24 hours.
- 10. Wash and trim the fennel.
- 11. Finely chop the green fennel fronds.
- 12. Halve the fennel bulbs and slice them thinly.
- 13. Whisk together the remaining olive oil with salt, pepper, and lemon juice.
- 14. Toss the fennel slices with the dressing mixture.
- 15. Fold in chopped olives and the fennel fronds.
- 16. Arrange the fennel salad and top with the marinated sardines.
Nutrition per serving
- kcal: 175
- Protein: 6 g · Fett/Fat: 14 g · Carbs: 7 g