Thursday, January 8, 2009

Broiled Sardines (Firinda Kizarmis Sardalya)

1 lb (~450gr) sardines
1 tbsp salt
3 tbsp olive oil
½ tsp paprika
½ tsp thyme
Juice of ½ lemon
1 clove garlic, minced

Cut the heads off and gut the sardines. Wash them under cold water and drain. If you like you can take the bones out and form sardine fillets. Then, mix all the ingredients with sardines in a bowl and leave them for marinating in the fridge at least 1 hour.
Preheat the oven at 400F (200C) and place sardines on a baking tray. I like the grill stripes on fish, so I placed a cooling rack on a tray and broiled sardines on it(Fats of sarnines will drop on the tray). Bake for 10 minutes and then switch to broil. Broil both sides for 5-7 minutes until they are golden brown.
Broiled sardines are good to go with arugula, radish, Turkish coleslaw, onion salad and lemon.
ENJOY


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TURKCE
½ kg sardalya
1 yemek kasigi tuz
3 yemek kasigi zeytinyagi
1cay kasigi kirmizi toz biber
1 cay kasigi kekik
½ limon suyu
1 sarimsak, dovulmus/rendelenmis

Sardalyalari kafalarini ve karinlarini keserek temizleyin ve soguk su ile guzelce yikayin.Isterseniz kilciklarini temizleyip, fileto olarak pisirebilirsiniz. Suyu suzuldukten sonra bir kasede butun malzemeler ile karistirin ve buzdolabinda en az 1 saat marine edin.
Firini onceden 200 C (400F) isitin ve baliklari firin tepsisine dizin. Ben baliklarin uzerinde izgara cizgilerini sevdigim icin, firin tepsisinin uzerine tel izgara koydum ve onun uzerinde baliklari pisirdim (Sardalyalarin yagi tepsiye damlayacaktir). Yaklasik 10 dakika pisirdikten sonra, ustten kizartmaya ayarlayin (broil) ve 5-7 dakika arasi damak zevkinize gore uzerleri kizarana dek kizartin, sonra baliklari ters cevirip tekrar 5-7 dakika boyunca ustten kizartin.
Firinda kizarmis sardalyalari yaninda, roka, turp, sogan salatasi ya da beyaz lahana salatasi ve limon ile servis yapabilirsiniz.
AFIYET OLSUN


3 comments:

Joie de vivre said...

Do you think you could use canned sardines? I really want to make this but I've never seen fresh sardines before.

turkishfoodandrecipes said...

I've found them in an International Market. You may try the canned sardines by skipping the baking part, and directly grilling for 3-4 minutes. I hope this will work.

® said...

AHH...dont use cannned sardines!!! If you cant find them, you will find frozen one for sure!!!