Sardines on toast with garlic tomatoes

What you need

• ·120g sardines in olive oil
• ·90g wholemeal bread
• ·100g cherry tomatoes
• ·6g garlic
• ·0.5 lemonss
• ·4g red chillies

Method

1. 1Tomatoes halved and into a hot dry pan, cut side down, until they blister and slump.
2. 2Garlic and chilli in for the last thirty seconds only — any longer and the garlic turns bitter.
3. 3Toast, then rub the cut face of a raw garlic clove over it while it is still hot.
4. 4Sardines on, tomatoes over, lemon squeezed hard over the lot.

A tin of sardines is 25g of protein for under a pound and keeps in the cupboard for years. The lemon is not optional.

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