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Sprats with mustard and lemon

Nov 2, 2011 18 min read In: Seafood By: The Chef 1 Comment
Sprats with mustard and lemon

Sprats with mustard and lemon

Nov 2, 2011 18 min read In: Seafood By: The Chef 1 Comment

You know sometimes I come back from work and I always have something on my mind that I want to eat. I dream of it from the morning and I have already decided how to do it and sometimes I even taste it on my mouth before I buy the ingredients.

The other day I was dreaming of stuffed squids which are typical recipes in Greece. I though…ok…you will go to the Market buy a squid and make it…how difficult can it be??

Nevertheless it seemed that it wasn’t meant to be that day to cook a squid. The guys in Sainsbury had only one squid and it was too big for me…not exactly what I had in mind.   Disappointed I was looking for anything else and then my eyes fall into some nice sprats. Hmmm….why not…

So I took some of them and went back home. I have to admit, I looked endless times on the internet to find something suitable and this recipe belongs to this site over here. Since it is in Greek however, I will take the opportunity to translate it for all the other Chefs of this world.

So..get your sprats ready…and here we go.

INGREDIENTS 

  • Sprats…as many as you want from those lovely little fishes
  • 1 red onion chopped in thin pieces
  • 1 glass of white wine (since however you will drink half of it… lets keep at least ½ glass of white wine for the recipe)
  • Parsley and some leaves of mint.
  • 2 small spoons of mustard (I used English mustard)
  • The juice from 1 grated tomato
  • Olive Oil as always
  • Juice and zest of one lemon
  • 2 slices of garlic chopped
  • Salt and pepper
  • And lots of love

METHOD

  • First we clean the sprats. If the guy on the Super Market where we bought them hasn’t done that for us…then we have to do it. It can be a blood bath…  Just pull the heads off and make a small line in the middle pulling their small cute guts out. (it was really nasty…I had to close my eyes when this was happening)
sprats on the plate

sprats on the plate

  • Put them in a small oven pan next to each other, really close.
  • We open the oven in 200c to pre heat
  • In another pan we put the onions and garlic to shallow fry them. Add the two spoons of mustard and the juice from the grated tomato stir them and let them cook for 4-5 minutes.
  • Add the wine and lower the heat. Wait 3-4 minutes until the alcohol vaporizes.
  • Then we remove the pan from the fire and we add the parsley and the mint which we have thinly chopped.
  • We add the olive oil and the Juice and zest of one lemon.
  • Then we pour our sauce over the sprats and we use our hands to make sure that it goes on all the sprats equally. In cooking sometimes if you don’t use your hands… you don’t get the results you need.
  • We put to the oven and cook them for 15 minutes

 

The food is ready! You can eat it as it is or use it as a side dish. The combination of lemon, mustard, olive oil with the parsley , mint and the sprats….. I thought it was great J

 

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1 Comment

  1. Eley8eria 12 years ago Reply

    Yummy recipe!
    http://italltastesgreektome.blogspot.com

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