Pasta with Sardines

Today I am practicing "pantry cooking".  What that means is that I am only going to purchase things as *absolutely necessary*.  Since we do meatless Fridays and most of the canned fish in our panty is sardines I decided to look through an Italian cookbook and find a sardine pasta dish.  I of course modified it due to ingredients and now my husband has a suggestion for the left overs.


PASTA with SARDINES

INGREDIENTS:
4 4 oz cans of whole sardines in olive oil (wild planet is preferred)
1/2 c flour
12 oz whole wheat pasta
2 T prunes, chopped
1/2 c pine nuts
1 T dill weed
1 lg sweet onion
1 t garlic, minced
Olive oil
salt
2 oz Parmesan grated


DIRECTIONS
*  Bring Pasta water to boil with 1 T salt
*  Soak prunes in 1/2 c hot water
*  Drain sardines in a colander
*  Dice onion and saute in 2 T olive oil until you get moderate carmelization
*  Add garlic, dill, pine nuts, prunes with water and stir while cooking until water evaporates then remove from heat
*  Cook Pasta then drain and mix with above mixture
*  Heat pan and add 2 T olive oil
*  Dredge sardines in flour
*  Cook sardines on each side until golden brown
* Plate pasta, top with Sardines to desire then grated Parmesan

I suggest serving this with a nice Chardonnay or a sweet Riesling.
In a few days I will reheat the left overs with a nice cream or alfredo sauce, per my husbands tastebuds and I will update then.


I hope this inspires you to modify dishes to work with your pantrys stock.

Anthoinette