Hard boil half a dozen eggs. Shell and halve the eggs and turn out the yolks into a bowl. Mash the yolks with a drained can of sardines, adding a little tomato puree to bind the mixture. Season. Pipe the mixture back into the egg halves and serve.
If you don't like the heads and so on, sardines ARE available without them...boneless and cleaned.
Sardines have a VERY fishy taste, which is not for everyone...but I did find a way to alleviate the extreme fishiness. Flake the sardines as though you were using them to make a fish salad sandwich, and place them in a bowl.
THEN pour reconstituted lemon juice on them straight from the bottle, to cover, and let that sit for about 15 minutes. Then drain and rinse.
You can make sardine salad by mixing the flaked sardines, (above), with chopped red onion and a little mayonnaise.
ANOTHER thing that kills fishiness, if you don't care for the very fishy taste of sardines, is mustard powder. Add 1/2 tsp mustard powder to 1 tsp apple cider vinegar, and mix well. You can also add 1 tsp of sugar if you like. (Optional). Then add mayonnaise and flaked sardines.
@4meAndyou I just opened the can, they were headless and appear to have been gutted. Just mashed them up with salt pepper garlic and some lemon. I am going to mix them in deviled eggs. Eggs just finished
My mother would not allow them in the house, so my father and I would eat them out of the can with saltine crackers on fishing trips. I didn't know there was any other way to eat them.
@exexec Matter of fact just had some Vienna Sausages but potted meat only when fishing with that wooden spoon and hard to look at. And not been fishing in many years so safe from that health food.