Step 2

Pour the marinade into a baking dish, lay the cleaned sardines in and turn them over until every fish is coated inside and out.

Step 3

Cover the dish and leave it in the fridge for a few hours.

Step 4

Get a barbecue or grill pan properly hot, then cook the sardines for 4–5 minutes a side, until the skin blisters and blackens in patches.

Step 5

Lay them on a serving plate, trickle a little more olive oil over, dust with a pinch more paprika and squeeze lemon wedges across the top.