Ingredients:

Magliette di zito (kind of pasta) gr. 600, sardines gr. 700, wild fennel 4 bundles, salt sardines 3 or 4, tomato extract gr. 70, roasted breadcrumbs gr. 100, large size onion 1, raisins and pine seeds gr. 50, roasted almonds gr. 100, grated pecorino cheese gr. 50.

Preparation:

Wash fennel and boil in a lot of salty water. Drain, chop and put apart. Clean sardines taking head, tail and bones off, flour and fry.

Do not forget to leave 4 or 5 raw. Fry fennel in the same oil. Grate onions and brown in a lot of oil.

Add salt sardines, previously cleaned, to fried sardines, fennel, tomato extract, raisins, pine seeds, chopped and roasted almonds. Try to press sardines with a wooden spoon. Add some water and cook for about 10 minutes. Cook pasta into the water previously used to cook fennel.