My favourite kind of shopping is food shopping. I love spending time in gourmet food shops, foreign supermarkets or Asia shops. There’s a really nice gourmet food shop here in Hamburg where they have amazing delicacies like vintage sardines. I have a small collection of vintage sardines and I enjoy eating them on it’s own, in a sandwich or with salad. Here’s a recipe of vintage sardines on salad with cucumber, potatoes, fennel and crispy bacon.
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Vintage sardines on salad with cucumber, potatoes, fennel and crispy bacon
Open the vintage sardines and let the excess oil drip off a bit.
Peel the potatoes and with a melon baller cut out balls. Put them in a saucepan and fill it up with water. Put in some salt and bring to a boil. Cook them for about 10 minutes or until the ball potatoes are ready to eat. Drain them under cold water.
For the vinaigrette mix juice of a lime, white wine vinegar, mustard, rice syrup, chopped parsley, salt and pepper and olive oil in a big salad bowl. Add the cooked potatoes and let them marinade in the dressing.
Heat up the oven to 180°C. Prepare a baking tray with some baking parchment and put the bacon on it. Put the tray into the oven and let the bacon get crispy. Will take about 5 minutes but keep an eye on it!
Wash and pad dry the lamb's lettuce. Wash the fennel and slice it thinly with a mandoline. Also use the fennel green! Wash the cucumber and cut out balls with a melon baller. Just before ready to serve add fennel, cucumber and lamb's lettuce to the marinated potatoes.
Divide salad to your plates and top with vintage sardines, crispy bacon and drizzle the rest of the vinaigrette over it. Serve with some baguette!
