Fresh sardines now in season

Spring brings us delicious new potatoes, peas and the first fava beans (broad beans), which are the most tender.

Also, from now until the end of May fresh Mediterranean sardines are at its best.

Ideally, we should cook Mediterranean sardines over burning embers, and serve them with a dash of extra virgin olive oil. The flavor when you cook fresh sardines over embers is incomparable.

Traditional Catalan cuisine has many simple but mouthwatering dishes cooked with this method: roasted mushrooms, and escalivada, roasted peppers, onions and eggplants, are two dainty examples of authentic Catalan cuisine.

We know that for most people it is next to impossible to cook often over open fires. So the second best is charcoal grilling fresh sardines. With this method they taste great too.

Failing that, a stovetop grill pan will also cook fresh Mediterranean sardines very well.

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