Baked sardines with tomato sauce
A small and hamble fish, but valuable due to its enormous nutritional value, the sardine stars in the monks diet. An easy monastic recipe to make sardines in the oven with tomato sauce or sardines plaki as it is called in traditional Greek cuisine. A delicious summer dish for the days when eating fish is allowed in the monks calendar. Do not forget to accompany it with a slice of freshly baked bread from Mount Athos.
We clean the sardines and fillet them carefully.
We clean the onions and cut them into slices.
We puree the tomatoes with the garlic in a blender.
We put some of the olive oil in a pan and lay the sardines with the skin facing up.
We pour the remaining olive oil into a pot and saute the onions. If we want, we add sugar at this point.
Then we add the mixture with the mushed tomatoes to the pot.
We season the sauce with salt and pepper and let it boil about 10 minutes.
Just before turning off, we add the parsley and oregano.
At the same time, we put the strips to cook for 5 minutes in a preheated oven at 180 degrees.
When the sauce is ready, we pour it over the sardines to cover them and continue cooking for about fifteen minutes.
We can not fillet the sardines and leave them with the bones. This way we save both time and the nutritional benefits hidden in the sardine bones. However, if it is filleted, it is easier for children to eat.
