This sardine lasagna is an easy, budget-friendly twist on a classic dish — packed with flavour and made without an oven! Perfect for quick meals or cooking on a hotplate or air fryer.
In this video, I show you step-by-step how to make sardine lasagna using simple ingredients. If you’re looking for creative ways to use tinned fish or want to try a no-oven lasagna, this one’s for you!
🧂 Ingredients: Sardines, lasagna sheets, tomato sauce, herbs, dairy-free cheese (optional)
🔥 Equipment: Hotplate / air fryer / halogen oven
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Hi foodies and welcome back to my channel. Now, I was in a live the other day, or was it last week? And a subscriber to both my channel and the Takeaway Boy channel asked if one of us would make a pilchured lasagna. So, I said I would. So, the ingredients you’re going to need is some butter, flour, and milk cuz we’re going to make our own bash bashame or white sauce. Now, pilchs are an adult fish and I couldn’t get any. So, I’m going to use the baby pilt, which is sardines. Now, as you can see, I got these from Tesco’s. Uh, can’t remember much how much they are, but I will tell you during the video cuz I do have the receipt. So, that’s what I’m going to be using. And it’s sardines in tomato sauce cuz I thought that would be better. I’m also going to use some pata cheap brand again. And obviously you need some lasagna sheets. So the first thing I’m going to do is my bashamel. So, I’ve got they are roughly one and a half to two tablespoons of butter that I’m going to slowly melt. Now, I’m doing this on 600. I did it again so you can’t see the the clock. So, I’m just going to melt this butter slowly. [Music] Now, I checked the prices of the sardines and they were 59 cents a tin. [Music] Now, I’m only doing a small one, so I don’t have any tins I need. So, in there, I’m going to put two tablespoon of [Music] flour. And we’re just going to cook this through. We’re going to make this into a R. So cook. We may need a bit more flour. We may not. I just put a little bit more flour in there. So that’s just another half of a tablespoon. Cut that out. And then I’m going to use about half or should I say a cup of milk. So I’m just going to slowly add that in. [Music] So, I’m going to carry on continuing doing this row. So, when this is done, I will bring you back. So, as you can see, that’s my sauce done. So, I’m just going to add a little pepper. I’m using white pepper and just a very very tiny bit of a of MSG. Just very small amount just to make the flavors pop later. Now I’m going to put this to one side and let it cool down. So now we’re going to make the filling for the lasagna. So just let me open the the sappa. And as I said, I’m just using any generic. As you can see, I can’t be up. So, we’re going to open these tins one at a time. Now, that’s what it looks like. And into there we go. Now, you could put them in whole lot, but I’m not going to. I’m just going to mush that down a little bit. And I’m just going to add some of the tomato pata. So that’s our mixture now ready. We’ll start assembling. So I’m doing mine in this little dish here. Now, I already have some broken up bits, but as you can see, they’re not all going to fit. So, I’m going to have to shape them as best as I can. Now, these are bits I’ve got left over from other lasagnas. So, the first thing I’m going to do is I’m just going to put some of this sauce at the bottom. [Music] I just add some of this mixture. Now, typically I would put the white sauce on as well. Now, as you can see, I’m doing the the best I can with the pasta. And we’re going to do another layer. Put some more bits of pasture on. As I said, these are leftover bits. Doesn’t have to be brilliant. Now, put the rest of this on. Now, I am going to put some seasoning into that. That is if I can find what I’m looking for. Come on. I got somewhere. This is me looking through all my spices. I know I should have them in order, but like found them. I have so many of them. So, I’m going to add a little tribes to this. Just a small bit on the last layer. There you go. And then I’m just going to add little bits and try and cover this as much as I can. After all, the pasta will be eaten anyway. And I’m just going to put that on there. And then finally, we’re going to add our bime. Now, normally you’d put cheese with this, but I’m not going to put cheese. Now, obviously I’ve never had this before, but obviously I’ve made a lasagna, so I’m going to cook that for around 20 minutes. And I’ll do that in my hologen oven. So, when that’s done, I will bring you back. So, whilst that’s cooking, um I can’t remember if I said who the subscriber was, but the subscriber was Nemettos. He’s a subscriber to both my channel and the Takeaway Boy channel and a few others. So, this is his idea, not my idea. Um, so can’t wait to It’s cooked so I can give it a taste test. I’m hoping it’s going to be delicious. I like sardines anyway. So, um, and fish in general. So, it can’t be that bad, can it? Anyway, I’ll bring you back when it’s finished cooking. So, as you can see, it’s already cooked. I’ll bring you down for a closer look. Um, I have some wedges on. So, I’m going to split this into two. So you could do this for two people or for two single meals. So here’s a closer look. You will also see it on my plate. So, whilst I’m waiting for the wedges to finish cooking and for that to cool down, the price of this meal, if you’re having it for lunch or if you’re having it for a dinner, obviously you could put a little few few more bits on the side like salad or whatever. Um, I worked out if you’re having it all together with the as a full lasagna as it is and some wedges, it’d work around work out at about €160. If you’re dividing that by two, obviously 80. And that’s because I well the amount of stuff I’ve used was pretty cheap. Um, the lasagna sheets were left over, but I did put in like 10 cents for that. 10 15 cents for that. And yeah, so I’m going to put a little crack pepper on top of that. When the wedges are cooked and that’s cooled down, I’ll plate it up. I’ll show you a closeup of that so you can see exactly what it looks like in on the plate and then we’ll give it a taste test. So now it’s on my plate. So I’m going to give you a closer look and then we’ll give it a taste test. It actually smells really nice. So, there’s some wedgies. And there’s what the inside of my lasagna looks like. So, now this is still a little bit hot, but we’re going to give it a go. So, yeah, it’s all about the sauce with the sardines. So that’s what it looks like. Hey, you know what? It doesn’t have taste bad. It’s actually pretty decent. Not too much fishy taste. That’s actually really really nice. Get some with this. Some a bit of everything. Don’t knock it until you try it. It is actually really, really nice. So, if you like the content, please give it a like, share, subscribe, all that jazz. Thank you for watching. Till the next video. Goodbye.
6 Comments
Absolutely FANTASTIC !! Thank you !! Told ya's !!! I love pilchards with pasta. 😃😃😃 Id eat the lot and walk home whistling !!!!
Heck yeah!!!
Oh my days !! Different ? Yes ! Looks delicious? Hell yeah
Hi Martine, loved the video. I was a little worried, sardines? lasagne? That's something Iceland would concoct 😂😂 but when you showed the finished product I thought "oh I'd have some of that". I must just give that a go but I'd swap the chives for oregano and use a little onion salt with the roux and of course a sprinkle of cheddar or mozzy on the top. A lot of people say "cheese with fish? No". They've obviously never tried a cod, hake or haddock mornay. That's something I'd love to see you try. Budget wise I'd use coley, readily available in most supermarkets esp Aldi. Just one more thing, a Chinese chef told me that when using msg any opportunity you get to brown it then do it as it's supposed to really max up the flavour, a bit like tempering spices. Cheers my dear! 👍👍👍
When you mentioned this I honestly thought no way Pedro but it looks good the final product will defo try sometime…
Great idea Martine although I think I'd prefer tinned mackerel, in fact that's given me an idea….