Stuffed sardines with lime and ginger flavours

Preparation:

1. Prepare the sardines, gut them, remove the head, middle bone and tail from the sardines.
2. Wash and dry them with paper towels. Lay them flat on a tray, skin side down, salt very lightly and put them in the fridge.
3. Prepare the stuffing by blending the onion, shallots and garlic in a food processor. Pour into a salad bowl.
4. Add the tomato paste, salt, pepper, cumin and the drops of lime and ginger flavouring.
5. Take the sardines out of the refrigerator. Make pairs by trying to put the sardines together two by two.
6. Spread the stuffing on one of the sardines, and cover each stuffed sardine with the second sardine, as if making a sandwich.
7. Heat the oil in a large frying pan for frying.
8. Pour the flour onto a sheet of aluminium foil.
9. Carefully flour each stuffed sardine on both sides. Pat out excess flour.
10. Fry the stuffed sardines in the oil for 2 minutes on each side.
11. Serve with a fresh salad and a squeeze of lemon.

Enjoy!