Berthe - Sardines in Olive Oil with Spicy Pickles

Berthe added pickled vegetables with enough chilli to make these sardines wake you up. The pickles bring vinegar sharpness alongside heat that lingers. The oil turns into something between preservation and condiment, carrying spice and the tang you'll want on whatever else is on the plate.

This combination reflects centuries of Portuguese sailors working out how to make provisions last and taste better for doing so. On toast, with eggs, rice bowl, wherever you want fish with heat and acid already built in.

Ingredients: Sardines (fish) (75 %), olive oil, carrot (2%), cucumber (2%), chilli pepper (2%), salt and flavouring.

Net weight: 125g