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Sardines on Buckwheat Flatbreads
by Wendy Rowe from Eat Beautiful
Easy
Serves 4
This simple recipe from Eat Beautiful is an easy way to get more oily fish into your diet. Enjoy this dish as a light lunch or snack.
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Introduction
I keep tins of sardines in my cupboard to have as a simple snack – great on toast with a sprinkling of sea salt and cracked black pepper. While they’re lower in mercury than other sea fish, it’s important to buy wild-caught sardines and opt for those packed in water or oil, rather than brine – you can always add the salt later. Even better, buy them fresh from your fishmonger. Bursting with flavour, they need very little to enhance them – just a few herbs and a squeeze of lemon.
280 calories per serving.
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Ingredients
| 4 tbsp | buckwheat flour, plus extra for dusting |
|---|---|
| Raw coconut oil, for frying | |
| 4 | fresh sardines, gutted and cleaned (ask your fishmonger to do this) |
| Handful of fresh parsley, finely chopped, plus extra to serve | |
| 1/2 | lemon, juice |
| Salt and freshly ground black pepper | |
| To serve: | |
| 1 | watermelon radish (or a handful of red radishes), sliced into thin circles |
| Lemon wedges |
Method
Place the flour in a bowl with 2 tablespoons of water and knead together to make a dough. (Buckwheat can be quite sticky so you may need to add more flour.)
Roll the dough into a tube and slice into four sections. On a work surface lightly dusted with flour, roll each piece out into a flatbread about 3mm thick.
Heat a little coconut oil in a non-stick frying pan over a medium heat, add a flatbread and cook on each side for 2–3 minutes or until browned. Transfer to a plate and cook the remaining flatbreads in the same way.
Meanwhile, cook the sardines. Melt 1 tablespoon of coconut oil in a frying pan and add the sardines, parsley and lemon juice. Season with a little salt and pepper and cook over a medium heat for 5 minutes on each side or until cooked through (see tip below).
To assemble, place slices of radish on top of each flatbread, top with a sardine and serve with extra parsley sprinkled over and a wedge of lemon.
TIP: The only downside of cooking fresh sardines is that they will stink your house out! To avoid this, simply cook outdoors on a barbecue.
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