Make some homemade mayonnaise with good eggs, light olive oil or macadamia oil, lemon juice, champagne vinegar and sea salt.

Wrap a sardine in a lettuce leaf with a slice of avacado and a dollop of your mayonnaise. MMMM.

EDIT: I also empty the contents of the can into a small pyrex glass bowl, season with oregano, dash of thyme and marjoram, cracked black pepper, then crack two whole eggs on top. Bake in a 350 degree oven til the egg whites are somewhat firm and white. Top with grated raw pecorino romano or a smear of your mayonnaise. Also MMM.

With a fork! Or on cucumber slices or wrapped in a lettuce leaf.

First up I recommend not getting the ones in Oil (even if it is 100% Olive), go with spring water for a good omega balance!

I too don't particularly enjoy eating them straight (although possible). I usually rice some cauliflower or boil some chopped asian cabbage and at the end throw the sardines in and mash em up so the bones are nice and small. I usually add a few tbs of coconut oil and some nori flakes at the end too, becomes a meal not so much a snack!

edit: above obviously isnt an option when on the move.. sorry.

scrambled eggs.

brown some onions and capsicum, add some garlic and mushrooms , then add chopped tomatoes, spinach and sardines (break them up), then scramble your eggs in with some chopped parsley. i normally put a little grated cheese on top at the end as well, but i put grated cheese on everything.

are you sure they still have the organs? i find this highly unorthodox.

I love them mixed into tomato sauce.

I always eat them as my protein on a salad -- add some balsamic vinegar and you've got the oil in the sardines already.

I love to eat them right out of the can with Tapatio hot sauce!

I have been eating the ones with olive oil, with some dried mustard sprinkled on. Yummy! I'll try the ones with water next but MUST HAVE MUSTARD!

I keep bottles of tabasco and balsamic vinegar at my desk. When I need a quick lunch, I'll drain a can of water-packed sardines and add a little of both. They're quite good that way.

On low-carb days, I mash up a can of sardines with 1/2 cup of guacamole (I use the packages from the fridge) and eat it as a dip on pork skins. Hot sauce on top or mixed in is great too. Great, if a little stinky.

Mash them up with some spicy sauce and some homemade mayo and wrap it in a nori seaweed sheet for some quick hand rolled sushi with no need for rice!

Use a lettuce leaf and wrap them up! You can also add more things in the wrap to make the flavor mild. Personally I like them right our of the can! But here in Sweden you can not buy them in good oil or sauce. :(

I haven't yet come across any with organs.... but I eat them on a salad or straight out of the can. I find them milder than tuna so this seems easy to me, maybe it'd be different with the organs.

Come on! Sardines are awesome right out of the can. Use a fork. Drink the oil when you're done.

If they are that big, wrap them in bacon and fry them up. I do that with other "pan fry" fish an it's really good.

If you want a to go, pop and eat option, I'd have to agree with the others who said to use a lettuce wrap.

I like them with whatever fermented pickley thing I happen to have on hand, and some fermented mustard...not plain, but close...good with avocado as well.

I make a nice salad and dump the sardines on top. You don't even need dressing.

1 Sardine, 1 slice of cream cheese. Crack pepper and sea salt. Cream cheese cuts the fish but not the cheese.

Green Beans, Hard Boiled Eggs, Olives, Capers, Sardines (packed in olive oil), Butter Lettuce & Red Onions

Mash, grab eggs and make a sardine omelette. Add salsa and a few green leaves [watercress goes particularly well with sardines].

I know this is an old thread, but, come on, SARDINES!

Slice 1 onion.
You can also slice one tomato to cook with the onions, which will create a nice quick sauce. Slice 1 or 2 potatoes in a mandolin or the side of a box grater.

If you got a grill, heat it up, and grill your sardines (if you bought water or tomato packed, brush olive oil on the sardines, then sprinkle lots of salt and a little paprika or chili paste).
Otherwise, set your oven to broil, place sardines in a baking sheet in one layer only.
Broil just until warm and the skin has a slight crisp to it.

Heat 2 pans with some bacon fat, and fry the potatoes with some salt and pepper, and the onions with some garlic.
You might need to add a splash of water to the potatoes once they absorb all the fat, so they don't burn.

To serve, place the onions on top of the potatoes, and the sardines on top of the caramelized onions / onion sauce.
Enjoy the tasty fishies.

This is sort of what you'll get: (no potatoes on that pic, though)

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Lemon, basil or coriander will tone town the fatty texture/taste, if you're not too fond of it.
You could use that maybe with some fried sliced red peppers.

And doesn't this just look delicious for a party (hopefully of open-minded people!)

Mash them with a fork and add some red wine or cider vinegar and maybe some mustard. This really cuts the strong flavor of the sardines.

they go well with mashed sweet potatoes. I bring potatoes in a glass jar and it makes a perfect meal.

Also, mine have the organs in them, you'll probably get used to the taste and be able to start eating them right out of the can like I do.

I stick them in the food processor with some olive oil and balsalmic vinegar and dump it on a salad. Same with anchovies.

I have a stack of the exact same brand of sardines (Brunswick in Olive oil) in my pantry! I eat them as is, bones and all. I saute some cabbage in fat, then dump onto them the sardines whole. I season the whole plate with salt, pepper, dried herbs, dried onion flakes and garlic granules. So good! :D

Bar Harbor brand makes sardines and kippers in water. Simply Sardines! Great from the can, but better with an avocado.