Sardines Sandwich

During this stay-at-home partial lockdown (“circuit-breaker”), do you have canned sardines in your emergency pantry stash? I confess I have 6 cans of sardines in my pantry at anytime, as I top them up whenever I use up a can. As much as I love steamed sardines in tomato sauce, I want to make something different with the canned sardines this time.

See Also:

• Steamed Sardines in Tomato Sauce
• Easy No-Cook Recipes
• Cooking During Lockdown

Leftover Bread Crust? Try:

• Easy Baked Croutons Recipe

This recipe dates back a long time ago. I learned how to make this sardine mixture from my home economics class. Even though I have sadly forgotten almost everything I learnt in secondary school (opps), I still remember this recipe vividly from my home economics textbook. I think my home econs teacher would have been proud of me :P

STEP-BY-STEP PHOTOS

To start with, we need a can of sardines in tomato sauce. I remove the middle bones in each sardine fillet.

Place the de-boned sardine fillet in a bowl.

Mash it up coarsely.

Stir in chopped red onions, chopped de-seeded chilli padi, lime juice, salt & pepper.

Now arrange the sardine mixture with lettuce, tomato & cucumber on a piece of bread (pictured above). Then put another piece of bread over it, slice it in half and your sandwich is done.

I used this chance to experiment on my second sandwich, a $2 sandwich mould from Daiso. I positioned the mould over the bread and pressed down all edges firmly.

This cuts and seals the bread into a pouch. Verdict: I don’t really like this mould, because greedy me likes a lot of filling in my sandwich so I almost burst the pouch. Maybe it is a user problem.

Slice into half and serve.

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Sardines Sandwich Recipe

You can also serve the sardine filling on a lettuce leaf for a low-carb snack.

Check out the ingredients & step-by-step photos on the previous page.

Serves: 3 sandwiches

Prep Time: 13 mins

Ingredients:

• 6 slices bread crust removed if preferred
• few lettuce leaves (romaine, butterhead or any favourite)
• few tomato slices
• few cucumber slices optional

(A) Sardines Filling

• de-boned sardines fillet from 1 can (230g) sardines in tomato sauce
• 2-3 red chilli padi deseeded & sliced thinly; to taste
• juice from 3 limes (or 1 tbsp lemon juice)
• 2 heaped tbsp chopped red onion
• salt and pepper to taste

Directions:

1. Make the sardine filling. Add ingredients (A) to a bowl. Using a fork, mash the sardines into chunky pieces. Season to taste.
2. Assemble the sandwich. Spread filling evenly over 3 slices of bread. Layer each bread with lettuce leaves, tomato and cucumber slices. Place remaining bread slices over the filling. Slice sandwich in half and serve.

Cooking Note(s):

1. I’m using one medium can of sardines (230g) which makes three sandwiches. You can use a bigger can. This is a recipe where it is very easy to season the sardine mixture to taste. Use as much or as little chilli padi, lime juice and onion as you like to suit the amount of sardines and your taste buds.
2. If anyone is allergic to raw onion, it can be substituted with chopped spring onions or omitted.

Ingredients Used: bread • chilli padi • cucumber • lettuce • lime • onion • salt & pepper • sardines • tomato