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Mackerel with lemon salsa

Name: Mackerel with lemon salsa
Total time: 30 min
Ingredients: lemon 1, halved; olive oil; garlic 1 clove, crushed; green olives a handful, pitted and quartered; parsley a handful; mackerel 4, gutted and cleaned

30 minutes + marinating
serves 4
Easy

Grilled or barbecued mackerel is easy to cook, economical to buy and full of flavour. Here it is served with a punchy lemon and olive salsa. Sustainable mackerel is one of the easier fish to find – look out for MSC-certified ones from Cornwall

March 25, 2015 at 3:08 pm

Ingredients

lemon 1, halved
olive oil
garlic 1 clove, crushed
green olives a handful, pitted and quartered
parsley a handful
mackerel 4, gutted and cleaned

Method

Step 1

Squeeze the juice from the lemon and save it. Halve the lemon again, then scrape out and discard the flesh. If there’s a thick pith on the peel, slice away half. Cut the peel into dice.
Step 2

Heat the oil in a pan, add the lemon and stir until it starts to caramelise around the edges. Tip into a bowl and add the garlic and olives. Add more olive oil and a little lemon juice and season. Leave to sit for 2 hours. Then stir in the parsley.
Step 3

Cut slashes in each side of the fish and grill or barbecue for about 4 minutes each side. Serve with the lemon salsa.