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Oven-Baked Sardines in Spicy Tomato Sauce
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Oven-Baked Sardines in Spicy Tomato Sauce

Fresh sardines baked in a spicy tomato sauce with cilantro and lemon — an authentic Moroccan dish

⏱ 40 min🍽 4 servings 🌍 Middle Eastern👩‍🍳 Afoona🧩 2 parts

👨‍🍳 Method

To assemble

  1. 1
    Preheat the oven to 180°C (355°F).
    ⚙ Preheating the OvenOven
    💡Put things in the oven only once it's reached temperature, after the heating light has gone off: an oven that hasn't reached temperature changes baking times, and the bake burns outside or stays underbaked.
  2. 2
    Arrange the sardines in a flat baking dish.
    Baking pan
  3. 3
    In a bowl, mix the tomatoes, olive oil, garlic, hot paprika, cumin and black pepper with the salt.
    Bowl
  4. 4
    Pour the sauce over the sardines.
  5. 5
    Bake 25–30 minutes.
    OvenBaking pan
  6. 6
    Before serving, sprinkle with the cilantro and lemon juice.
445calories
39 gprotein
9 gcarbs
28 gfat
● protein 35%● carbs 8%● fat 56%

Per serving (274 g), of 4 servings

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⚖ About the ingredients

🔧 Tools needed (3) · 🍳 One cooking vessel

  • Oven · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Toaster oven (Fits one small pan; good for small batches) · Air fryer (Small batches only, no runny batters) · Pot (Only for covered stews on the stovetop, no browning on top)
  • Baking pan · Also works: Glass / ovenproof baking dish (None) · Disposable pan (None)
  • Bowl · Also works: Pot (None)

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