Spanish 'Migas' recipe: Uses for leftover bread 1

'Migas' are tiny cubes of fried bread and are traditionally served as a tapas in Spain with freshly fried sardines and sometimes with spicey sausage (chorizo), bacon etc. As with all breadcrumb recipes, it is a way of using up stale bread leftovers that dates back to times of scarcity. Here is a recipe for the sardine version.




Ingredients
stale bread,
green peppers (usually the small pointed variety grown and sold everywhere in Spain)
fresh sardines
olive oil
garlic cloves - unpeeled and cut in half lenghtwise
salt
water

Quantities of ingredients are up to the discretion of the cook!

Instructions
Cut the bread into small cubes, the smaller the better.
In a frying pan, fry the green peppers and sardines in olive oil.
In another frying pan with clean oil, fry the garlic cloves.
Add water to the breadcrumbs so that they go spongey and throw in a pinch of salt. Then transfer the bread to the frying pan with the garlic, stirring them continually until they are golden brown but still soft.

Serve the fried peppers and sardines on a bed of 'migas'.