1 # sardines (cleaned whole, heads on)
\ncourse kosher salt
\ngood olive oil (enough to coat 1\/8 inch in pan)
\ndrake’s batter mix or seasoned flour
\nsalt & pepper<\/p>\n
lightly salt sardines and let sit for 5-10 minutes.<\/p>\n
dust in drake’s (drake’s is a seasoned combination of fine corn meal and wheat flour made in marshall, michigan and used in many restaurants. chefs call it duck dust and it gives fried foods a nice golden brown coating).<\/p>\n
heat olive oil over med-high heat until sizzling hot (but not smoking). fry sardines about 3 minutes a sice or until just opaque to the bone at the thickest part. serve with a lemon.<\/p>\n
sardines are “finger food” just pick em up and then fillet them off the bone with your teeth.<\/p>\n
larger fish like bluegill or crappie can use a thicker batter. this can be achieved by first dipping in an egg & milk wash, then either dredging or shaking in a paper bag to coat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
sardines, like most small panfish, are “finger food” just pick em up and then fillet them off the bone with your teeth. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[82,83,84,85,67],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/\/www.bulkreeftv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/\/www.bulkreeftv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/\/www.bulkreeftv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.bulkreeftv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.bulkreeftv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"\/\/www.bulkreeftv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.bulkreeftv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/\/www.bulkreeftv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.bulkreeftv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.bulkreeftv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}