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Sardine

Copepoda, Sardina pilchardusAlso called pilchard and european pilchard

Sardines are fish sold canned. Cooks grill, pickle, preserve, or smoke them.

  • Fish
  • Gluten-free
  • Allergen: fish

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Family
Clupeidae
Cooked most in
Europe, Asia
Top country
Italy
Sardine, cooked

Photo: pelican from Tokyo, Japan · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use sardine

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Grill
  • Pickle
  • Preserve
  • Smoke

Shopping

Choosing and storing sardine

Sold as
Canned

Around the world

Where sardine is cooked

4 dishes in the catalogue use sardine. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list sardine among their ingredients.

Origins

  1. About 1750 · United Kingdom

    A thriving pilchard fishing and processing industry developed in Cornwall.

  2. The 1950s · United States

    The US sardine canning industry reached its peak.

  3. 1997 · United Kingdom

    Sardines from Cornwall began to be sold as Cornish sardines.

  4. 2010 · United States

    The last large US sardine cannery closed.

On the table

Dishes made with sardine

3 of the 4 catalogued dishes that use it, spread across the countries they come from.

  • Rusip

    Indonesia

  • Pasta con le sarde

    Italy

  • Sarde in saor PAT

    Italy

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include sardine.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: sardine in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.
Allergens
Contains: fishChecked and not found: soy, eggs, milk, lupin, wheat, celery, sesame, mustard, peanuts, molluscs, sulphites, tree nuts, crustaceans, gluten cereals.
Animal origin
From: fishChecked and not found: egg, meat, dairy, honey, insect, gelatin, poultry, bone char, shellfish, other animal, animal fining, animal rennet.
Gluten
None
Alcohol
None
Caffeine
None
Pork
None

Around the world

What sardine is called

Names in 47 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    sardina

  • Italian

    sardina · sarda · sardella · bianchetti

  • Portuguese

    sardinha

  • German

    Sardine

  • Dutch

    sardien

  • Turkish

    Sardalya

  • Russian

    Сардина

  • Polish

    sardynka · sardyna · pilchard

  • Arabic

    سردين · السردين · السردينة

  • Persian

    ساردین

  • Urdu

    لوئر مچھلی

  • Tamil

    சாளை

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  • Abkhazian

    Аҭлаҧс

  • Armenian

    սարդին · հրձուկ · աղեկ · սարդինաձուկ

  • Betawi

    Sardèn

  • Brazilian Portuguese

    Sardinha

  • Cantonese

    沙甸魚

  • Catalan

    sardina

  • Chinese

    沙丁魚

  • Cornish

    Hernen

  • Czech

    Sardinka

  • Esperanto

    Sardino

  • Estonian

    Sardiin

  • Finnish

    sardiinit · sardiini

  • Georgian

    სარდინები

  • Goan Konkani

    Tarsulo

  • Haitian Creole

    Sadin

  • Indonesian

    Sarden · pilchard

  • Irish

    pilséar

  • Japanese

    サーディン

  • Kazakh

    Сардина

  • Lithuanian

    sardinės

  • Macedonian

    сардина · паламида

  • Malagasy

    Sardina

  • Malay

    Sardin

  • Malayalam

    മത്തി

  • Moroccan Arabic

    سردين

  • Serbian

    Сардине

  • Shona

    Zitye

  • Slovenian

    sardina

  • Swedish

    Sardin

  • Thai

    ปลาซาร์ดีน

  • Traditional Chinese

    沙丁魚

  • Tulu

    ಬೂತಾಯಿ

  • Ukrainian

    Сардини

  • Uzbek

    Sardinalar

  • Vietnamese

    Cá mòi

  • Waray

    Sardinas

  • Welsh

    Sardîn

Sources and credits

Data

  • GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
  • Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
  • Wikimedia Commons: photos
  • Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Wikidata item: Q5141254

Photos

Photo: pelican from Tokyo, Japan · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons