Sardine people...

Kalikel
Kalikel Posts: 9,603 Member
in Food and Nutrition
What do you do with them?

The smell alone has kept me from eating them for many years, but I've read how much people like them, so I bought a tin. It's sitting in the pantry, taunting me. I don't know what to do with it when I open it.

Pizza is out of the question.

What else do people do with sardines?

If my experience with tuna is any indication, I know that at least one will have to be given to the cat. Other than that, I have no idea what to do with them.

Help.

@Sabine_Stroehm - I know you eat them. Help.
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  • ValerieMartini2Olives
    ValerieMartini2Olives Posts: 3,024 Member
    I've never had sardines, but I made a really good bread spread with anchovies. It's finely chopped anchovies, olive oil, parmesan cheese. Spread it on toasty french bread. It's really tasty.
  • Queenmunchy
    Queenmunchy Posts: 3,380 Member
    edited November 2015
    Love! I like to just mix them with jalapenos and some olive oil and break them up to eat with crackers - typically nut thins.

    My other favorite is a can of either mustard or hot sardines sauteed with 1/4 chopped onion and 1/2 chopped tomato. Add in hot sauce for the mustard sardines or dijon for the hot sauce sardines and a little bit of adobo. Cook until it's stew like,. breaking up the sardines, and eat with bread, rice or crackers.
  • Therealobi1
    Therealobi1 Posts: 3,262 Member
    nothing
    i never buy sardines. its the smell. the smell opening the tin might finish me off.
    i will eat mackerel or sometimes tuna.
  • Eblair2015
    Eblair2015 Posts: 1 Member
    I eat them straight or with a little hot sauce Delicious They are! :-)
  • pondee629
    pondee629 Posts: 2,469 Member
    edited November 2015
    on wheat thins or Triskets
  • jemhh
    jemhh Posts: 14,261 Member
    I put them on bread, sprinkle on salt, and eat as a sandwich.
  • arnavkrish
    arnavkrish Posts: 43 Member
    U can make fish curry .we make really spicy curry with them I use fresh sardines rather than the canned ones serve with rice http://kichuskitchen.blogspot.com/2014/07/meen-curry-fish-curry-with.html?m=1 this is a sample recipie it's from my own blog u can replace raw mango and tamarind paste with tomato the idea is we need something Sour. We also use cocum which is dried garcinia gamboge to give sourness. It's really tasty but it very true about the smell and we also fry them after after marinating in spices but the smell is horrible. Be sure to close ur bedroom doors closet doors etc..
  • bri170lb
    bri170lb Posts: 1,375 Member
    My 13 year old son LOVES them.

    He gets a can every year for Christmas in his stocking and for his birthday. Sometimes they mysteriously jump into my shopping cart. When he has his own money, he always sets a little aside for sardines.

    He eats them outside, on our deck, straight out of the can.

    Once, he won a contest at youth group because he was the only one who would eat them. He ate one for everyone on his team and was a hero!




  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,890 Member
    Straight from the can, or on crispbread. Love it :D
  • Lizzy622
    Lizzy622 Posts: 3,705 Member
    They make a great sauce for spaghetti. They just "melt" into the olive oil and garlic. I also like them straight out of the can as others have said.
  • CooCooPuff
    CooCooPuff Posts: 4,374 Member
    I love them straight out of a can. I'd recommend looking for Beachcliff sardines in lemon oil. They are the best
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    This probably won't help you, but I like them plain. I often have smoked salmon with my omelet for breakfast, and sometimes I sub sardines instead (or mackerel) -- just on the side, not IN the omelet. Yes, you eat the bones (calcium!).

    Or just plain as a snack or if as part of a meal with vegetables and whatever on the side.

    I've used anchovies in pasta sauce but never tried sardines that way -- I should.
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    (It's really weird that the smell doesn't bother me at all, but is the reason I cannot do canned tuna.)
  • LKArgh
    LKArgh Posts: 5,178 Member
    My husband loves them, he just eats them from the can, with a tomato salad and bread. They are edible as a side dish for lentil or bean soup in my experience (obviously in meatless soup recipes - sardines and e.g. saussage probably will not mix well).
    Personally, if I plan to eat sardines, I prefer to buy fresh and grill them.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    on a cracker with hot sauce.
  • Lourdesong
    Lourdesong Posts: 1,492 Member
    On crackers (or wrapped in lettuce leaf) with hot sauce, is how I eat them the majority of the time.

    I have used sardines as a sub for anchovy fillets in seafood soups and sauces. It's not quite the same, but better than nothing, imo. They melt in fairly well.
  • Kalikel
    Kalikel Posts: 9,603 Member
    edited November 2015
    So many good ideas. Thank you! :)

    Plain...oh, I just don't know if I'm that brave. Suppose I could suck it up and try that. Just have to get over this irrational aversion I have to eating a stinky, raw fish out of a can.
    Lizzy622 wrote: »
    They make a great sauce for spaghetti. They just "melt" into the olive oil and garlic. I also like them straight out of the can as others have said.
    Do you literally cook hem down and melt them or is that just a figure of speech? Cooking them into a sauce sounds much more appealing. :)
  • Lourdesong
    Lourdesong Posts: 1,492 Member
    Pretty sure sardines are cooked prior to canning.
  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,890 Member
    Lourdesong wrote: »
    Pretty sure sardines are cooked prior to canning.

    Yes, I believe they are cooked under high pressure so that the bones become totally edible, soft and invisible (by magic); they are still there and provide calcium (don't know if this is reassuring or frightening for the OP :p )
  • LaceyBirds
    LaceyBirds Posts: 451 Member
    I never tried sardines because they seemed yucky to me. In my quest to start doing/eating things I have never tried before (part of turning 60), I decided to try yucky sardines. The reason is that I wanted to increase my good cholesterol and lower my triglycerides, and sardines are high in poly and unsaturated fats and Omega-3s. Sardines, compared to larger fish such as salmon and tuna, contain less mercury too.

    I didn't think I could just eat them plain, so I decided to use them to make a sandwich, basically a tuna sandwich using sardines instead. I really like them. I use boneless, skinless sardines, so I don't get the calcium you would if you ate them with bones, but I still get lots of good fats. I have them a couple of times a week.

    Here's two versions of the sandwich, using two different brands:

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  • KathleenKP
    KathleenKP Posts: 580 Member
    Haha. I had to open the thread, b/c my first thought when I saw the title was "now THAT describes my youngest child". I, on the other hand, prefer my space. It didn't occur to me that you were talking about food.
  • giantrobot_powerlifting
    giantrobot_powerlifting Posts: 2,598 Member
    Kalikel wrote: »
    Pizza is out of the question.
    One of the best pizzas I ever had was in Rome just outside my hostel near the main train terminal.

    It was sardines, artichokes and mozzarella on those amazing crusts they have. All very salty and it was delicious with beer. Lotsa beer.

    I want this pizza now. Right now.
  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,263 Member
    edited November 2015
    Chopped up and salted, and then the sardines and the oil are drizzled on salads. Often.

    With hot sauce on a hearty cracker is my number 2 fav.
  • Kalikel
    Kalikel Posts: 9,603 Member
    nakedraygun wrote: »
    Kalikel wrote: »
    Pizza is out of the question.
    One of the best pizzas I ever had was in Rome just outside my hostel near the main train terminal.

    It was sardines, artichokes and mozzarella on those amazing crusts they have. All very salty and it was delicious with beer. Lotsa beer.

    I want this pizza now. Right now.
    I'm sure pizza is great for people who like it and eat it, I just don't. I'm the only person in America who doesn't like pizza. I know everyone else does. I get that I'm the odd man on that. I know everyone else just LOVES pizza and thinks it's the best food in existence, blah, blah, blah. It's just not for me. :)
  • giantrobot_powerlifting
    giantrobot_powerlifting Posts: 2,598 Member
    edited November 2015
    Kalikel wrote: »
    nakedraygun wrote: »
    Kalikel wrote: »
    Pizza is out of the question.
    One of the best pizzas I ever had was in Rome just outside my hostel near the main train terminal.

    It was sardines, artichokes and mozzarella on those amazing crusts they have. All very salty and it was delicious with beer. Lotsa beer.

    I want this pizza now. Right now.
    I'm sure pizza is great for people who like it and eat it, I just don't. I'm the only person in America who doesn't like pizza. I know everyone else does. I get that I'm the odd man on that. I know everyone else just LOVES pizza and thinks it's the best food in existence, blah, blah, blah. It's just not for me. :)
    Oh I don't care if you don't like pizza, I just wanted to relive that memory. Oh that delicious memory, mmm.....
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    Yeah, on a salad is good.
  • xtinalovexo
    xtinalovexo Posts: 1,376 Member
    I prefer them on a trisciut topped with balsamic vinegar.
  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,263 Member
    PS: you can get them "housed" in different things, like tomato sauce, lemon juice...
  • giantrobot_powerlifting
    giantrobot_powerlifting Posts: 2,598 Member
    Flagged. Laff.
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,230 Member
    I feed them to my cats, they're really good for their coats ;)

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