Sardine Tostada

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Tacos are quite trendy and served in a widespread locations be it – food trucks, taco stands and now gourmet restaurants. For a party, unless you hire a taco truck or caterer, it’s inconvenient for you, as the host, to service tacos when you need to attend to your guests.

Solution? Think of a tostada as a crispy flat taco and provide a buffet consisting of several taco fillings. Bonus – purchase quality pre-made tostadas and if they are available, appetizer size too. In this recipe I top my tostada with sardines on a medley of tomato, cilantro and lemon. Garnish with strips of chile güero. This dish is best made with fresh sardines. If not a fan substitute grilled fish of your choice.

Let’s get started.

Ingredients

Serves 2

125 grams (4.375 oz) can of sardine fillets in water

or 4 fresh sardines, trimmed,scaled and gutted

1 green onion finely diced

1 medium tomato blanched and peeled then roughly chopped

⅓ cup finely chopped red bell pepper

1 tablespoon finely diced cilantro

¼ teaspoon dried oregano

1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil

1 tablespoon fresh squeezed lemon juice

1 pickled chile güero, opened, seeded, cut into thin strips (Mexican yellow pepper)

Salt and ground pepper to taste

Corn tortilla tostadas

Preparation:

Pickling Chile Güero,

Poke holes in the peppers on all sides using an ice pick. In a 1 quart saucepan, add peppers, ½ cup vinegar, ¼ cup water, 1 teaspoon sugar and small clove garlic and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to a simmer and cook 12-15 minutes until the peppers are soft. Cool the peppers and store them in the pickling solution. They’ll keep a week in the refrigerator.

Tostada preparation

If using fresh sardines: Heat a skillet over medium heat and with 1 teaspoon of oil and grill fillets; do not overcook. Cool and chop coarsely. For canned sardines just chop coarsely. Combine the remaining ingredients in a bowl and season with salt and pepper.

Add sardines and spoon the mixture over tostadas; garnish with chile strips. Serve.

Note:

The recipe is published in “Mexico En Tu Mesa”, a valuable food and recipe website published by a Mexican governmental agency. The site informs you about Mexico’s geographical regions and their culinary traditions, it’s unique food products, recipes and techniques of the country’s diversified gastronomy. These traditional and emblematic recipes were selected by 35 of the top chefs of Mexico. Don’t miss the opportunity to visit the website so click now to visit “Mexico En Tu Mesa”.

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