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mackerel pate - quart of a tub of philadelphia, 2tbsps olive oil, 2tbsps lemon juice, 2 smoked mackerel fillets (those ones you get vacuum packed) flaked, blitz in magimix or with hand blender to the consistency you prefer...you can spice it up e.g. with paprika, or just season with salt and pepper.

Many Spanish, Basque or Portuguese recipes for bacalao/bacalhau can be cooked with mackerel.


One of my favourite non-standard fish dishes is an Arab-Andalusian recipe for monkfish (or another fleshy white fish such as mackerel) with a honey - saffron - pine nut - raisin sauce called "Rape al azafran". Sweet healthy comfort food that's great for kids and adults. Monkfish itself not great in the mercury ratings so find a succulent strong fleshed alternative.

Mackerel is such a strongly flavoured fish that it can stand up to flavours that normally you couldn't pair with fish.


One of my favourites is to grill mackerel at high temp till cooked with a crispy skin and serve with a daal or spiced lentil dish. Delicious.

It was just this:


8 cloves garlic, minced or finely chopped (more if you LOVE garlic)

1/2 tsp of black pepper (more if desired)

2 tsp salt

1/2 cup Extra Virgin Olive Oil

1 cup Freshly squeezed lemon juice




Directions

1) Mix all ingredients into a container with secureable lid


2) Tighten lid


3) Shake vigorously until olive oil and lemon juice blend into one, after about 1 minute of shaking.


4) Spread over fresh spinach or any shredded salad greens!



But I used less garlic, because we didn't have enough. Ahem. Also, cress, quite peppery and pungent and would have been overpowered by the garlic. Or something.

here's one we love - a slow-cooked Japanese mackerel dish by Hugh Fearlessly-Eating-All http://www.channel4.com/4food/recipes/chefs/hugh-fearnley-whittingstall/japanese-slow-cooked-mackerel-07-11-08

It's actually very quick to make.


Once you've gobbled up all the fish, the left-over juices are lovely on plain rice

We love mackerel in this house too!


Our current favourites using smoked mackerel are: smoked mackerel with a warm salad of new potatoes, beetroot, capers, gerkins and parsley or smoked mackerel with beetroot and celeriac remoulade (http://www.thegingergourmand.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/smoked-mackerel-with-celeriac-beetroot.html).


Like david_carnell says, mackerel can stand big robust flavours and there's a lovely Rick Stein recipe for Mackerel Recheado which we eat with pilau rice and katchumber salad (http://cornwall-living.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/mackerel-recheado-recipe.pdf). Baby Knomester doesn't always like very spicy food though so if we're eating with him, we tend to choose simpler dishes, e.g. fry fillets and serve with tabbouleh style salad made with bulgar wheat and puy lentils or with quinoa.


It also makes good fish fingers coated in egg and panko!


There's a recipe in a Waitrose Magazine which my Mum gave me last week that we're going to try soon which is for mackerel with soya beans and sushi rice, but I can't seem to find the recipe online anywhere.

Knomester Wrote:

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> We love mackerel in this house too!

>

> Our current favourites using smoked mackerel are:

> smoked mackerel with a warm salad of new potatoes,

> beetroot, capers, gerkins and parsley or smoked

> mackerel with beetroot and celeriac remoulade

> (http://www.thegingergourmand.blogspot.co.uk/2012/

> 01/smoked-mackerel-with-celeriac-beetroot.html).

>

> Like david_carnell says, mackerel can stand big

> robust flavours and there's a lovely Rick Stein

> recipe for Mackerel Recheado which we eat with

> pilau rice and katchumber salad

> (http://cornwall-living.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2

> 012/03/mackerel-recheado-recipe.pdf). Baby

> Knomester doesn't always like very spicy food

> though so if we're eating with him, we tend to

> choose simpler dishes, e.g. fry fillets and serve

> with tabbouleh style salad made with bulgar wheat

> and puy lentils or with quinoa.

>

> It also makes good fish fingers coated in egg and

> panko!

>

> There's a recipe in a Waitrose Magazine which my

> Mum gave me last week that we're going to try soon

> which is for mackerel with soya beans and sushi

> rice, but I can't seem to find the recipe online

> anywhere.



This recipe has me salivating! Can't wait to try it. We often have smoked mackerel in Kedgeree. The recipie is my own version;


shredded smoked mackerel

cooked peas

boiled eggs

cooked rice (we always steam)

spring onion

powered cumin

powered turmeric

powered ginger

powered corriander

bit of dry chillie

lemon juice


Kids have recently gone off it which is a big shame as its one of my favourites - big dollop of lime pickle on the side!

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