Lemons stuffed with sardines
6 Servings
Ingredients
Quantity | Ingredient | |
---|---|---|
6 | Lemons | |
1½ | tablespoon | Butter |
1 | can | Sardines; reserve oil & cut up |
1 | small | Onion; chopped |
1 | 1\" Strip Green Pepper; chopped | |
1 | Rib Celery; chopped | |
⅓ | cup | Mayonnaise; divided |
1 | Hard-Boiled Egg; chopped | |
6 | Sprig Parsley | |
Melba Toast |
Directions
Cut tops off lemons and scoop out well. See that lemons stand on plate by cutting off bottom. Place butter and sardine oil in sauce pan. Cook with onion and green pepper. When cool, add celery, mayonnaise, cut up sardines and hard-boiled egg. Mix well and stuff individual lemons. Place enough mayonnaise on top to round off lemon. Place a sprig of parsley on top.
Chill. Serve with melba toast.
Serves 6
Source: "Mountain Measures" -- Junior League of Charleston, WV ed. 1974 billspa@...
Recipe by: Mrs. Robert W. Lawson, Jr. Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #719 by Bill Spalding <billspa@...> on Aug 04, 1997