2010 Cooking Club Week 35: Baked Mackerel

TechnoPool

Big fish fan here so going with something that i like to eat , sorry i dont have the time to come up with something more elaborate and ill try get some pictures up.

Feeds 2-4

Ingredients :

2-4 Mackerel
1 Whole Garlic
1 Onion
1 Lemon
Dried or crushed Chili ( Dont use if u dont want too)
Olive Oil
Parsley
4-6 decent sized potatoes



Clean the fish firstly and sprinkle it with a little salt , place it on a plate and give it a small coating of the olive oil.

Slice the lemon and put a small slice into a slit about half way down the fish, again this is optional, but i do it. Stick it in the over for around 18-22 minutes at around 200 , preheated.

while the fish is in the oven chop the garlic cloves finely about 4-6 depending on how you like your garlic and peel and slice the spuds , and place them into a pan with a generous helping of olive oil ( around 7-8 Tbls ) add in the dried chilli ( if u want to ) and cook it on a medium heat , you will know its done when the garlic is gone golden, remove the chili at this point.

Put the sliced potatoes into a seperate frying pan with the chopped onion and some olive oil , try not make them too thin or they will just burn or too thick and they wont be on time with everything else, they should crisp up just nicely so keep an eye on them as they can burn quickly

Remove the fish from the oven and open them up, remove any bones u can see and the lemon, plate it up with a little of the sauce poured over and it the potato slices and onion and garnish with a little parsley.

handy to make and healthy enough.

Little Alex

TechnoPool... just a question about the potato slices... should they all be in contact with the pan so that they brown up?

TechnoPool

Little Alex wrote: »

TechnoPool... just a question about the potato slices... should they all be in contact with the pan so that they brown up?

its kinda your preference pal, some of the folks in the house here like them browned up some like them golden and soft, depends who's cooking it really. Just keep an eye on them as they can go from done to burnt very fast

foodaholic

A wee bit confused do you fry the potatoes with the garlic and chili first and then put in a different pan with the onions ?

foodaholic

So I went ahead and gave it a bash. The potatoes are yummy, I did finish them off in the oven so they got brown on both sides.

The mackerel actually cooked in less than 10mins, so maybe mine where a little smaller than yours

Deffo the cheapest recipe so far only Eur2 for 2 mackerel.
Thanks TechnoPool

TechnoPool

yeah sorry i never got round to gettin picks up :rolleyes:

its not the prettiest plate of food in fairness but its helleuva lot tastier than it looks:D

Little Alex

So, TechnoPool, we had your recipe this evening. I got the mackerel in Tesco. They were "line caught" and at the counter they even filleted and topped and tailed them, yet only charged €2 for two. The backbone was still in, but this could be pulled out very easily by hand.

I've never had mackerel before and it certainly is a fish that is big in flavour. This is what is turned out like:



Thank you!

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Is that samphire, foodaholic?

foodaholic

Yeah little alex its samphire, where has it been all my life !!! Love it and its healthy

nice1franko

Made this on Sunday. I didn't take a pic because it was fairly horrendous to look at. I was a bit rushed plus only had a little bit of tinfoil left so piled the fishes on top of each other and then they were stuck together when done. I broke them up trying to get them apart then Still though, it was a delicious oul supper I must say. I normally pan fry me mackerdls but will do them this way again (obviously lay them out neatly next though).

foodaholic

nice1franko wrote: »

it was fairly horrendous to look at.

it couldnt have looked any worse than mine :eek:

Tara be

Looks good to me and it's Good Friday today. Am gonna give it a lash.

Roald Dahl

We had this lovely meal tonight.

Very tasty and full of flavour.



It will be made again!