Fresh Anchovies Saganaki

For 2 persons

Ingredients
1 kg fresh anchovies 
1/2 green chili pepper, cut in thin round slices

1/3 cup olive oil
the juice of 1 lemon
1 tbsp. mustard
1-2 big pinches dried oregano
salt & pepper

Preparation
Clean the anchovies from heads and guts, and wash them very well. Put them in a deep pan. Add all the ingredients, except the mustard, and slightly cover with water. Put the pan in high heat, and boil the fish for a few minutes untill cooked. Try not to stir the fish, because anchovies are very tender. 
Remove the anchovies from the pan using a skimmer, add mustard in the pan and continue boiling in high heat, until you get a thin sauce. 
Serve the fish in deep plates and cover with the sauce. 

Suggestions: 
1. If the oregano you used seems a lot, then add a little bit more! The result will be even tastier!..
2. Dip bread in the sauce.
3. Dip bread in the sauce.
4. For goodness sake, just dip bread in the sauce!

Enjoy!

Tsipoura Ladolemono - Sea Bream with Lemon Sauce

This is a classic, simple and delicate recipe for big and oily fishes, cooked in the oven.

For 2 persons

Ingredients

2 big sea breams

extra virgin olive oil

1 pinch oregano

juice from 2 lemons

coarse salt
freshly ground black pepper

For the ladolemono sauce: Whisk togethen 3 parts extra virgin olive oil, 1 part lemon juice, 1 pinch of salt and freshly ground black pepper. 

Preparation
Clean the sea breams from the scales and the guts. Rinse them with plenty of fresh water. Drain well and dry them off with paper towel. Put the fishes in a pan, add olive oil, the juice of half lemon, and season them with salt, pepper and oregano, both sides and inside the belly.

Preheat the oven at 360° F (180° C) and bake the sea breams for 30 minutes.

Serve the sea breams in the plates, pour some of the juices from the pan on each fish and then add the ladolemono sauce. 

Enjoy!

Sardeles Ladolemono - Sardines with Lemon Sauce

A very simple and quick recipe for delicious sardines in the oven.

For 2 persons

Ingredients
1 k.g. sardines
extra virgin olive oil
oregano
lemon juice
coarse salt
freshly ground black pepper

For the ladolemono sauce
1 part lemon juice
3 parts extra virgin olive oil
1 pinch of salt
the liquids from the pan, after grilling the fishes

Preparation
Clean the sardines from the scales, the heads and the guts, and rinse them with plenty of fresh water. Drain well and dry them off with paper towel. Put the sardines in a bowl, add salt, pepper, oregano and olive oil and mix well. 
Put a layer of sardines in a pan with non stick baking paper, trying to keep them in rows, one next to the other. Add juice from 1 lemon, some more olive oil, and a pinch of coarse salt.
Preheat the oven at 360° F (180° C) and bake the sardines for 20-25 minutes.

For the ladolemono sauce
Whisk together all the ingredients. Add the sauce on the baked sardines. 

Enjoy!