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Sardines on lettuce with tomatoes and capers

Serve drained sardines on romaine lettuce with warm tomatoes, red onion and capers. Prepare vegetables with separately weighed rapeseed oil and complete the flavour with lemon and parsley.

1 serving

Sardines on lettuce with tomatoes and capers — AI-generated illustration for MyTrela. Serving suggestion.
AI-generated illustration for MyTrela. Serving suggestion.

Ingredients

Amounts cover the entire recipe: 1 serving. Weigh products from packing liquid after draining; weigh herring after rinsing and drying, and olives without stones. Discard the packing liquid and oil. Measure the cooking fat separately as listed. Other weighing stages are given with the ingredients.

  • Red tomato170 g
  • Red onion45 g
  • Canned capers18 gWeigh after draining. Discard the packing liquid.
  • Rapeseed oil10 gMeasure the full stated portion separately; do not use oil or olive oil from the fish package.
  • Salt1 g
  • Black pepper1 g
  • Lemon juice9 g
  • Parsley leaves6 g
  • Romaine lettuce40 g
  • Sardines in olive oil120 gWeigh only the fish after draining. Discard oil or packing liquid from the package; do not add it to the dish.

Preparation

  1. Drain sardines and capers. Discard packaging olive oil and packing liquid and separately weigh 120 g fish and 18 g capers. Measure 10 g rapeseed oil for preparing vegetables.
  2. Wash tomato and lettuce leaves and peel onion. Chop tomato and onion and chop parsley.
  3. Heat all the weighed rapeseed oil in a frying pan. Add onion and fry until translucent. Add tomato and capers and stew over a medium heat until tomato softens.
  4. Combine vegetables with weighed salt, pepper, lemon juice and all the parsley. Arrange on lettuce leaves and serve with drained sardines.

Preparation and cooking time for this original version has not been measured.

Nutritional values

We do not provide calories or macronutrients: nutritional values for this original version have not been confirmed.

About this recipe

Developed by MyTrela with AI assistance. This is a new original MyTrela version with drained weights and separately measured fat, rather than a reconstruction of historical proportions of packing liquid or oil. This version has not been tested in a kitchen trial. The illustration shows a serving suggestion.