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Can I cook with the olive oil from canned sardines?
Yes, you can use the oil for other purposes, although due to the strong fish aroma and taste it would probably best be used only in a fish dish. I frequently use the oil from anchovies to fry onions ...
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Can I cook with the olive oil from canned sardines?
That sardine oil is going to be primarily useful for dishes that already have a strong fish flavor -- such as from the sardines themselves. For example, multiple recipes for Pasta con le Sarde ...
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What to do with the olive oil from canned sardines?
First, if you are going to use it, do so within a few days, and if you are not using right away, put in another container and store it in the refrigerator. As for uses, you can employ it anywhere you ...
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Unopened canned sardines behaving strangely but not expired
The expiration date is (as it were) a red herring. Food doesn't suddenly go off on the expiration date. Most foods are just fine well past the expiration date; it's just the the manufacturer isn't ...
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Can I cook with the olive oil from canned sardines?
Fish spread would be an example where you can reuse the oil, since you aim for the fishy taste anyway.
My basic approach is to mash the sardines (or any other kind of canned fish in oil) with a fork, ...
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Can I cook with the olive oil from canned sardines?
I like to mix sardine oil with milk and serve it with granola. The milk neutralizes the fish flavor and it adds an interesting color to the milk. You may want to chop in fruit or add a pinch of sugar ...
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What are these little balls in my sardines?
I found roe in mine for the first time today and was a little off put until I realized within seconds what it was. I did a search to confirm, YEP! It's roe. Just finished eating every last bite of ...
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What to do with the olive oil from canned sardines?
I'd suggest dropping some oil on a slice of bread. Probably too simple to be called a recipe, it's just a sardine-flavoured version of bread with oil.
I'd would prefer to do this with the oil from ...
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Why do canned sardines have no protein scum?
Hard to answer concisely, because there are many variations in processing before the Sardine hits the canning retort (a sterilization pressure cooker). Recall that there are sardines "in oil" "in ...
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