Sardine Tapenade Food

TAPENADE

Steps:

• Combine garlic, olives, anchovies, capers, thyme, rosemary and lemon juice in an electric blender. Slowly drip the olive oil into the blender while you are blending the ingredients together. Blend until a paste is formed.

SARDINE TAPENADE

Steps:

• Mix together the olive paste, garlic and the sardines with their oil. Season with plenty of pepper.
• You can toss this with 1 pound of pasta by adding 1/2 cup pasta cooking water.

TAPENADE

Steps:

• Combine the olives, capers, anchovies and garlic in a food processor fitted with a steel blade, and pulse 3 times. Add the olive oil, lemon juice, mustard, thyme and parsley and process until chunky.
• Serve on toasts.

SPANISH SARDINES ON TOAST

Steps:

• Heat the olive oil in a frying pan, then sizzle the garlic clove and red chilli. Add the lemon zest.
• Add the sardines and heat through for a few mins until warm.
• Toast the brown bread. Stir the parsley into the sardines, add a squeeze of lemon juice, then divide between the toast and serve.

SARDINES, PARMESAN AND OLIVE TAPENADE ON PIDE

Steps:

• For the tapenade, blanch garlic cloves in boiling water for 2 minutes (this help to reduce their pungency).
• Meanwhile, rinse the olive, capers and anchovies, then drain and pat dry with paper towel.
• Place the olives, capers and anchovies in a food processor with the garlic cloves and then pulse to form a coarse paste and now with the motor running drizzle in enough of the olive oil to make the tapenade glossy and supple and then add two good twists of black pepper from a pepper mill and then pulse again to combine.
• These proportions will give you a very olivey tapenade, so taste it and feel free to add more ca[ers, garlic or anchovies if your palate demands it - I'm not a huge fan of olives but I loved this once the sardines and lemon juice were applied.
• You can store the tapenade in a small jar, under a layer of olive oil, in the fridge for up to 1 week.
• Drain the sardines, then split each fish into 2 shiny fillets, you can remove the backbone if you don't like the crunchiness (don't think it is really worth it), set the sardines aside, you may also wish to remove the head if you sradines comes complete.
• Preheat the grill to medium high and toast the bread on each side for 1 to 2 minutes until golden and warmed through.
• Spread the cut side of the bread with tapenade (you just need to smeer) and then cut into wedges and then top with sardines and garnish with shaved parmesan (we actually grated the parmesan) and chopped parsley (we used leaves of parsley to decorate).
• Drizzle with olive oil, and then serve with lemon wedges to squeeze over.

SARDINE TOASTS WITH TOMATO AND SWEET ONION

Steps:

• Toast the bread under a broiler (on both sides) or in the toaster.
• While the toast is still warm, immediately rub it (aggressively!) with the cut side of the garlic clove, then spread toast generously with butter. Top butter with tomato slices and lightly salt them.
• Top tomatoes with sardines and then onion slices. Drizzle with olive oil and lemon juice, then season with more salt and pepper. Garnish with basil if you like and serve immediately.