Bart's Recipes
Preheat the oven to 200 degrees Celsius. Take a large baking dish and arrange the four cleaned fresh sardines side by side in it. Slice the two garlic cloves into thin slices. Distribute the two hundred grams of cherry tomatoes, garlic slices, and tablespoon of capers evenly over and around the fish in the dish.
Drizzle the sardines and tomatoes with the two tablespoons of olive oil and season everything with pepper. Place the baking dish in the center of the preheated oven. Bake the dish for approximately fifteen minutes until the fish is cooked through and the skins of the cherry tomatoes burst.
Remove the baking dish from the oven. Cut the lemon in half and squeeze a generous amount of fresh lemon juice directly over the hot contents of the dish. Tear the ten basil leaves into rough pieces and scatter them over the fish and roasted tomatoes.
Serve the dish immediately by placing the warm baking dish on the table. Serve carefully so the sardines remain whole, and don't forget to generously distribute the mixture of tomatoes, capers, and pan juices over the fish.
