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Mustard Sardines Salad Recipe [Paleo, Keto]

Continuing with our obsession with canned sardines, this recipe is another super easy and quick way to eat sardines! Treat it as an alternative to a tuna salad – you can pack these for lunch or spread them on top of some 5-minute Paleo bread for a quick sandwich or on top of some cucumber slices for a party snack.

If you’re unfamiliar with canned sardines, they’re cheap, easy to eat, and highly nutritious. Just remember to use sardines that are packed in olive oil (and not vegetable or seed oils), like these Wild Planet sardines.

For another easy and quick sardines salad recipe – check out this one.

Mustard Sardines Salad Recipe [Paleo, Keto]

This recipe takes under 5 minutes to make. It’s really the mustard and fresh lemon juice that makes this recipe so good. Plus, if you’re on a ketogenic diet, then this recipe also works for you – sardines are high in fat, super nutritious, tasty, and cheap. So, pretty good on all fronts. And if you’re not a fan of the fishy taste, then the mustard and lemon juice takes most of that out in this recipe.

I hope you give it a try.

Step 1: Pour out most of the olive oil from the canned sardines.

Step 2: Use a fork or your hands to mash the sardines.

I know it doesn’t look all that pretty at this point, but it will taste good!

Step 3: Add in diced cucumbers, lemon juice, mustard, and salt and pepper to taste. Mix well.

Mustard Sardines Salad Recipe [Paleo, Keto]

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• Author: Louise Hendon
• Prep Time: 5 minutes
• Cook Time: 0 minutes
• Total Time: 5 minutes
• Yield: 1 serving 1x
• Category: Snack, Lunch
• Cuisine: American

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Ingredients

• 1 can (4-5 oz) sardines in olive oil
• 1/4 cucumber, peeled and diced small
• 1 Tablespoon lemon juice
• 1/2 Tablespoon mustard
• Salt and pepper to taste.

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Instructions

1. Drain most of the olive oil from the sardines.
2. Mash up the sardines.
3. Combine the sardines, diced cucumbers, lemon juice, mustard, and salt and pepper. Mix well.

Notes

All nutritional data are estimated and based on per serving amounts.

Nutrition

• Calories: 260
• Fat: 20 g
• Carbohydrates: 0 g
• Protein: 25 g