Marinated anchovies
Description
Perfect with the table and with drinks. To marinate anchovies, you first need to prepare a marinade from water, salt, sugar, and spices, and let it cool. If you don’t like a spicy marinade, then don’t add pepper and bay leaf at all—the fish will be just as tasty. It can be served warm or chilled.
Instructions
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Step 1
Prepare all the necessary ingredients. Buy whole anchovies with intact bellies, shiny, silvery skin and scales. You do not need to wash them before salting.
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Step 2
In a convenient sauté pan or small saucepan, pour in the water, add a heaping tablespoon of salt, sugar, whole peppercorns, and a bay leaf. Place the pan on the heat.
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Step 3
As soon as the water comes to a boil, stir it with a spoon until the salt and sugar crystals have completely dissolved. Pour in the vinegar and cool the marinade. The fastest way to do this is to place the saucepan in a large container of cold water.
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Step 4
Place the anchovies in the cooled marinade, gently mix with the back of a spoon, and leave the fish for at least 2 hours. After this time, small anchovies will already be well marinated; larger ones will be ready in 4–5 hours.
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Step 5
You can clean the fish by removing the head, entrails, and backbone, and make delicious sandwiches with white bread and butter.
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Step 6
Alternatively, you can drain the marinade, discard the spices, arrange the anchovies on a flat plate, and serve them that way. The marinated anchovies are ready to serve.