Bloody fish heads...let’s make curry!

This post title is, well, a little “special”. I cleaned some fish (sardines) yesterday and ended up with a pile of bloody fish heads...and I thought of it (and especially of fish head curry! lol). Sorry for those who might find it a little gross :P

I had already bought sardines before in Angoulême (fresh ones, I mean, not tinned ones), and I remember that the bones had been taken out so that all that was left were the two sides of the fish, and I fried them. I hadn’t bought them since I moved to Lyon (I hadn’t even seen them!), and on Wednesday when I saw fresh sardines in the supermarket I decided to buy them to make curry, since Hidayah had recommended them (not with the heads, though! :P). It was a pack of 10 sardines (sold by weight, though), but this time they were whole sardines (not even cleaned!)

Now during my practical last summer I was in a Portuguese (well, in France but with Portuguese workers) company, and they had a barbecue with sardines (they said that the Portuguese like sardines a lot). So since I had a whole lot of sardines, I decided to try grilling some of them in my pan, that is, to put them straight into a hot pan with nothing else (and sprinkle salt while grilling)

At the beginning I did wonder whether I should put a little oil, but my pan was oily after grilling it, so I’d say that sardines are oily, so there’s no need for oil...And anyway, if I put oil it would become frying, wouldn’t it?

In fact I was a little too lazy to take the scales off the fish...so I just peeled them off the cooked fish when it was easy, and munched them when they didn’t peel off easily. I don’t know whether there are any adverse health effect of eating fish scales...but then again, if I eat fried fish fins, why not eat grilled fish scales? :P (and we DO eat the whole ikan bilis...fins, scales and all)

You might ask yourself what’s the point of this post...well, there isn’t really one :P I just felt like writing about this. But we could say that the conclusion is: why fry sardines? Grill them!