Frozen
sardine fish can be eaten alone or mixed with other
dishes for your favorite sardine recipes. Sardines are small fish rich in
nutrition with oily texture and soft bones. Since typically sardines are soft
bones, people like to eat them in a whole because the bones offer great calcium
intake. One of many ways to cook sardines is using pressure cooker. This will
help to soften the fish bone and permeate the sauce into the fish to make
stronger and tastier flavor. There are 2 common ways to cook sardines, the
first method is using Spanish style with tomato sauce and the later using
Portuguese style using oil instead of tomato based sauce. You can learn both of
the two ways and then choose which one you did prefer.
Fresh/ frozen
sardine fish cooked in tomato sauce (Portuguese style)
To cook frozen
sardine fish in tomato based sauce, things you need to prepare are:
·
2 lb. fresh/ frozen sardines
fish
·
1/4 cup of salt
·
2 cups of water
·
1 teaspoon of salt
·
2 cups of tomato sauce
·
10 whole peeled cloves garlic
·
1 bay leaf
·
1 tablespoon of smoked paprika
·
1 tablespoon of sugar
Things
you should do:
1.
First, remove the sardine heads
and clean their internal organs. Do not remove the scales.
2.
Mix ¼ cup of salt with 2 cups
of water then soak the sardine with the mixture for about 15 minutes. Take out
the sardines, rinse them with cold water and it will help to get rid the fish
blood.
3.
Prepare the pressure cooker;
place the sardines plus the ingredients inside.
4.
For fresh or frozen sardine fish in tomato sauce, you need to
make a mixture from 10 whole already peeled cloves garlic, 2 cups of tomato
sauce, 1 tablespoon of smoked paprika, 1 bay leaf, 1 tablespoon of sugar, and 1
teaspoon of salt.
5.
Close the pressure cooker lid
then put on top of burner and cook them with high heat. When the cooker starts
hissing, lower the heat and cook the sardines for twenty minutes.
6.
Remove the cooker from the heat
and let it cool down for few minutes or at least 15 minutes until the pressure
cooker stop steaming or hissing.
7.
Open the pressure cooker and
take out the sardines. You can eat the sardines as soon as possible or you can
store them inside the jars.
Fresh/ frozen
sardine fish cooked in oil (Spanish style)
The method is basically is similar with
sardine in tomato sauce. To cook frozen sardine fish in oil, things you need to prepare are:
·
2 lb. fresh/ frozen sardines
fish
·
1/4 cup of salt
·
2 cups of water
·
1 teaspoon of salt
·
2 cups of olive oil
·
2 bay leaves
·
1 red chili
·
1 carrot, thinly sliced
·
1 pickle, thinly sliced
·
6 cloves
·
2 teaspoon of whole peppercorns
Things you should do:
1.
Again, you need to remove the heads
and clean their guts. However, do not remove the scales.
2.
Mix ¼ cup of salt with 2 cups
of water then soak the sardine with the mixture for about 15 minutes. Take out
the sardines; rinse them with cold water to help drain away the fish blood.
3.
Prepare the pressure cooker;
place the sardines plus the ingredients inside.
4.
For fresh or frozen sardine fish in oils , you need to make a mixture
from 1 teaspoon of salt, 2 cups of olive oil, 2 bay leaves, 1 red chili, 1
carrot and a pickle which is thinly sliced, 6 cloves, and 2 teaspoon of whole
peppercorns.
5.
Close the pressure cooker lid
then put on top of burner and cook them with high heat. When the cooker starts
hissing, lower the heat and cook the sardines for twenty minutes.
6.
Remove the cooker from the heat
and let it cool down for few minutes or at least 15 minutes until the pressure
cooker stop steaming or hissing. Open the pressure cooker and take out the
sardines.
If you use fresh sardines instead of frozen sardine fish then they are
faster to spoil and thus to avoid that, you can keep the sardines inside
refrigerator in a bowl of ice, but please make sure that you cook the fish
within a day.
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