Grilled sardines

Ingredients for 4 people:

• 2 cloves garlic
• The juice of half a lemon
• 2 tsp anise
• 3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
• Some parsley leaves
• Black peppercorns
• 16 sardines
• Salt
• Optional:
  • Pink pepper

Preparation:

1. Peel the garlic cloves. Mix them in a blender with the lemon juice, anise, olive oil and parsley leaves. Add the peppercorns.
2. Remove the guts from the sardines. Do not remove the scales.
3. Place the sardines in a deep dish and cover them with the sauce from the blender.
4. Marinate them for two hours at room temperature.
5. Grill the sardines on the No Fat Grill for 3 minutes. Remove the scales. Season with salt flakes and, optionally, with pink pepper.

Tips 

• You can use Pastis or Pernod instead of anise. If you don’t like the anise flavour, you can use dry white vermouth.