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Whole fresh sardines with silvery sides and olive-green backs on dark slate.

Fresh sardines

Fresh sardines become sarde in saor in Veneto, fried and layered with an onion-and-vinegar dressing.

Italian name
Sarde fresche
In the recipe
Sarde in saor

At the table

For Venetian sarde in saor, fry the sardines, then layer them with onions cooked and dressed with wine vinegar. Start with this fish-and-onion version before trying other additions to the dressing.

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