Ingredients

• 400 g potatoes
• 150 g clean leek
• 16 fresh sardines
• flour
• parsley
• extra virgin olive oil
• salt
• pepper

For the recipe for sardines and potatoes with leek cream, boil 300 g of potatoes in their skins for about 40 minutes. Cut the leek into slices and wash it. Peel the remaining potato and cut it into cubes. Put the leek and diced potato in a small saucepan with a veil of oil and brown for 4-5 minutes. Add a glass of water and let them simmer for about 30 minutes.

Turn off and blend, obtaining a cream. Clean the sardines, removing the central bone and opening them like a book; leave the final part of the pigtail. Flour them and fry them for 30 seconds in a pan with a thin layer of oil. Peel the boiled potatoes, mash them with a fork, season with oil, salt, pepper and a tablespoon of chopped parsley.

Serve the anchovies with the mashed potatoes, completing with the leek cream in a separate bowl.

Other Recipes you can read:

• The recipe on the cover: frangipane tart, cream and strawberries ..

  May, strawberry time. We celebrate the spring In the Recipe book of the new issue of The Italian kitchen now on newsstands. Aromatic herbs, salads, pods, new ..

• Gnocchi without potatoes, the first protein to make today – ..

  Prepare the gnocchi without potatoes and is it possible without eggs? Of course: if you haven't yet dipped your hands into the dough to make soft potato gnocchi ..

• Recipe Aromatic mashed potatoes, leek and watercress – Italian cuisine ..

  The mashed potatoes it's among the most comforting side dishes there is. Perfect in the classic version with potatoes, milk and butter, it also lends itself to many ..