The Sardine Starter Kit
Buy these first
- Gateway: Season or King Oscar skinless & boneless in olive oil.
- Step up: Bela lightly smoked in organic olive oil.
- Flavour: Fishwife with preserved lemon.
- Benchmark: Nuri in spiced olive oil.
- Value case: Crown Prince natural skinless & boneless.
- All-rounder: Matiz in olive oil.
Serve them on
Buttered toast, lemon, flaky salt. Then: white beans, soft eggs, or pasta with chilli and breadcrumbs.
Avoid
The cheapest water-packed whole tin as your first experience, and any tin with no stated origin.