This sardine rice bowl with an egg on top features canned sardines in tomato sauce. It’s quick, nutritious and budget-friendly!
Sardine Rice Bowl
This is what I call my poor man dinner. A “what can I make with what I have?” recipe.
But budget food doesn’t have to be bland!
This dish can be thrown together quickly and requires very little cooking.
Do you like sardines? Don’t knock ’em till you’ve tried ’em! They’re actually really tasty and so healthy in vitamins B and omega-3’s.
This is a step up from the classic sardines and crackers with hot sauce, but mainly because I didn’t have any crackers haha.
All you need is a few ingredients and there are easy substitutes if you don’t have these things:
Canned sardines in tomato sauce. You can also substitute plain sardines and an 8-ounce can of tomato sauce.
Cooked rice. You could also use quinoa or couscous – or forego the carbs altogether.
Eggs cooked any way you like, but preferably with a runny yolk!
Red pepper flakes for spice. I love collecting different kinds like aleppo chile or gochugaru (Korean hot pepper), but cayenne pepper gets the job done just fine. Hot sauce works too!
One last thing to make this sardine rice bowl really special: Slice 1 onion and saute in oil until softened. Add sardines and proceed with recipe.
I’d also love if you share your favorite canned sardine recipes in the comments below!
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This quick and easy rice bowl topped with tomato marinated sardines and an egg makes a tasty protein packed meal.
Sardine Rice Bowl
Ingredients
Instructions
Samantha
Monday 19th of October 2020
Made it today for me and my two high schoolers for lunch as we are all in virtual school/ work mode. Sautéed the onion and used a tomato basil sauce and kicked it up with a good amount of crushed red pepper. My daughter had with egg, my son and I without as we had an egg for breakfast. Wow - was this ever good!!!
Rebekah
Monday 19th of October 2020
Thanks! Glad to hear they like sardines too!
Amy L Greco
Saturday 1st of February 2020
So delicious scooped up with dried seaweed!
Rebekah
Saturday 1st of February 2020
Genius!
Tyrone Knight
Friday 10th of January 2020
My go to is a ramen noodle bowl, I add some olive oil and garlic powder to the cooked noodles, top with sardines in olive oil and chilies, add some more garlic powder, micro wave the bowl, add some grated parmesan and romano cheese to the heated mixture. YUM! I think I am making tonight and will try adding the egg!
Rebekah
Friday 10th of January 2020
Wow that sounds amazing! Do you use the ramen seasoning packet too?
Jackie Dean
Sunday 8th of December 2019
I tweaked it a little for what I had on hand. Sardines in hot sauce, caldo de Tomate and instant grits. Delicious! Thanks for inspiration!
Luke
Tuesday 9th of April 2019
I saw this at 10:30pm and ran into my kitchen, this recipe set my imagination alight, these were some of the changes I made.
Add hoisin, it takes this dish to another level.
I didn't have the tomato sardines but I did have the olive oil sardines, I ended up using some tomato paste which worked fine as a replacement. The tomato part really brings the dish together. But I think a can of tomatoes is excessive, liquid wise.
I also like slicing the onion length ways into thin strands and frying, for more texture.
For the egg component I like to make Tamagoyaki; aswel as the slow-fried sunny side up egg.
Immature green pumpkin goes well with this dish, if you have it laying around, zucchini would work nicely too.
Fresh chillies!.
Rebekah
Tuesday 9th of April 2019
I love what you've done with the dish!