Oven Baked Spicy Sardines With Bread Ala Noor

     Ha ha..  Do you reckon that name will catch on?

     I had a little burst of inspiration on Monday evening.  Mum's been lamenting about having bought too much bread the other day so we had all these days-old bread which were at the risk of going bad any day now.

     I felt especially bad considering I was the one who bought the bread in the first place. LOL. Hey she said she had just cooked fish asam pedas to eat it with so I thought there would be some enthusiasm to get the bread moving! How was I to know that everyone wanted to eat it with rice instead.

     Incidentally, asam pedas is a sour and spicy stew that can be cooked with chicken, beef or fish though the last is the most popular choice.  Funnily enough, Mum cooked it again yesterday so here's a pic so you know what I'm talking about. It was very nice! Yumm!

      But I digress.  I thought it'd be nice to try something savoury instead of the usual bread pudding that we've tried before.  So I came up with this idea just off the top of my head. LOL. A rarity but hey you only live once right? 

     The ingredients for the sauce: 2 cans of sardines, 1 can of button mushroom, 2 big onions, 1 carrot, 2 tomatoes, dried chilli and one clove garlic (blended), salt and sugar to taste

     The onions are first sauted and then the blended chilli is added. The mashed-up sardines and cut mushrooms are added after.  Sugar and salt are then added to taste.

     Voila, the end product:

     I cut the bread into four and soaked it in beaten eggs.

     A layer of sardine sauce, then the grated carrots and sliced tomatoes.

     Topped it off with another layer of cut bread, beaten eggs and sliced cheese and a little bit more sauce and it's ready to go into the oven.

     

     Ten minutes and 170 degrees Celcius later:

     Bon apetit!  It wasn't half bad.  I made two sets and one was polished off the first night with 3/4 of the second left-over for brekkie the next day.  Reckon, I'm gonna try with minced beef the next time.