I’ve been trying to incorporate more sardines into my diet for awhile now. If you get reasonably good ones, they are very tasty,very healthy, environmentally sound (low on the food chain, plentiful), and rather affordable. Just when I’d grown weary of using them as salad protein, Edward Schneider to the rescue.
Make whatever potatoes you like: home fries, hash brown, mashed, steamed, roasted. Doesn’t matter. I went with some home fries this time.
Calorie Estimate: 800
Ingredients
Homefries
- 1 T butter
- 1/2 onion diced
- 1/2 lbs. potato, 1/4″ slices
- 2 anaheim peppers, seeds removed, 1/4″ crosscut strips
- salt and pepper to taste
Fish and finish
- can of sardines packed in olive oil or (butter if you can find it)
- splash olive oil (from the sardines if tasty, otherwise drain and use new)
- squeeze of lemon juice
Preparation
- Boil a little water. Take it off the heat and put the unopened can of sardines in to warm them.
- To a skillet over medium heat, soften the onions in butter for 2 or 3 minutes.
- Add the potatoes, salt and pepper. Toss the potatoes so that they get pretty good contact with the skillet. Cook 7-10 minutes, tossing occasionally.
- Add the peppers. If the pan is dry, splash a little water in and toss. Cover and cook 8-10 more minutes.
- Adjust salt, plate the potatoes.
- Take the sardines out of the can. If there oil is tasty and not too fishy, dump the sardines and oil over the potatoes. Otherwise, drain the sardines first and then splash dish with a little olive oil to freshen.
- Squeeze a little lemon juice over the top and dig in!
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