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Pasta with sardines
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Prep time: 30mins
Cook time: 30mins
Serves or Makes: 6
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ingredients
- 500 gram macaroni
- 500 gram fresh sardines
- 2 onions
- 50 gram raisins
- 50 gram pine nuts
- 600 gram wild fennel
- 2 sachets of saffron
- 100 gram breadcrumbs
- EVOO
- To Taste salt
- To Taste pepper
Method
Step 1
Rinse the wild fennel, bring a pot of water to boil, add salt as you will do for cooking pasta. you will use this water later for cooking pasta, then boil the wild fennel for 5 minutes, drain the wild fennel, chop and reserve it, reserve also the water for cooking pasta.
Step 2
Soften raisins in warm water for 10 minutes and then squeeze them
Step 3
In a pan pour some EVOO and toast the breadcrumbs until they brown a little bit
Step 4
Pour some EVOO into a pan and fry the chopped onions, the sardines, the raisins and pine nuts. Incorporate the chopped fennel and the boned sardines. Mix with a wooden spoon, taking care to chop the sardines.
Step 5
When the fish is cooked, finish the sauce by adding a sachet of saffron dissolved in warm water, adjust with pepper and salt (if necessary) and set aside
Step 6
Boil the pasta al dente, in the water that you reserved, following the cooking time on the label, minus one minute
Step 7
Drain the pasta, mix it in the pan with the sauce for 1 minute and serve sprinkling with the toasted breadcrumbs.