Call Her Katrina? No, Please Call Her Tuatarina :')

I never intended for this blog to be a site where I post recipes.


Nope, never had that in mind because I don't have talent for cooking.


But today is different.
Nothing special about today, nope.
But,
just because today I made this fingerfood
called TUATARA.

Yup, this is the so-called Tuatara :')


Owh, I'm sharing the recipe here today. Isn't that a good news?

. . . maybe not so much. Ehehe~


What you need:
1 can of sardines
1 green onion
Blackpepper
Oil
8 to 12 tortilla wraps
3 eggs
Cheese (optional)
Chilli powder (optional)
Breadcrumbs (optional)

How do you prepare it?
There are 3 stages to preparing this tuatara. You see, it IS time consuming which is why I rarely make this fingerfood. I'm lazy, thank you.


Stage 1: Preparing the sardines

1) For a starter, heat some oil in a frying pan. Put in the sardines without the tomato sauce into the oil and fry them. This is to ensure the sardines are not hanyir when you eat them later.

2) As the sardines are well fried, turn them into smaller chunks according to your likings. I prefer them mashed. :') Only then you add in the tomato sauce from the can.

3) Cut the onion into two. Diced one half, and cut the other half into thin thread-like pieces. Add the diced onion first and stir the sardines. After they mixed well, add the the other half.

4) Then you add in some blackpepper. If you like it spicy, put in more blackpepper. And if you like it hot, add some chilli powder.

5) Let the sardines on the stove for about five minutes.

6) If you like it cheesy, melt some cheese in the pan and mix it together. Let the sardines on stove for about another 10 minutes or until it looks less watery before you remove it from pan into a blackpepper-ed bowl.


Stage 2: Wrapping

1) Take 1 tortilla wrap and cut it into 4 smaller pieces.







This is how the small tortilla pieces should look like

2) Put some sardines on the small tortilla pieces and wrap it like you wrap a springroll.







These what you should get as you finished this stage :'P



Stage 3: Fry 'em all!

1) Break 3 eggs into a container. Beat them.

2) Heat some oil in a frying pan.

3) Dip the "springrolls" from Stage 2 into the beaten eggs. If you like your Tuatara crunchy, then dip it in breadcrumbs after it was dipped in egg.

4) Fry 'em all

5) Ready to serve~

If you haven't noticed, the one closest to you was fried with breadcrumbs



Okay, that's all about it. Easy, right? Just requires some effort. :')










Owh, you asked "Isn't tuatara an iguana-like creature exclusively found in NZ?"

YUP, IT IS. But why I call this fingerfood tuatara?

. . . go ask Zack. Thank you. X'D