Baked Mackerel with quinoa
Delicious baked mackerel served with Harissa quinoa for a quick and healthy supper
Difficulty and servings
Serves 4
Preparation and cooking times
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees. Place each mackerel fillet on a sheet of foil with 1 tsp oil, 1 tsp butter and add tomatoes, parsley and lemon juice evenly across each fish fillet, season with salt and pepper. Wrap and seal each fillet in a loose parcel of foil. Set aside.
- Rinse quinoa and place in a saucepan, add hot stock, season with salt and pepper, bring to the boil and simmer for 20 mins.
- When quinoa has been simmering for 5 mins, place fish parcels into oven to bake for 12-15 mins.
- Fry off onion and red pepper with the olive oil for a few minutes, add Harissa paste then stir into the quinoa for final cooking until the stock is absorbed.
- Delicious served with steamed carrots and butternut squash, drained and dressed with a 1/4 tsp Harissa paste.
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Ingredients
- For the fish:
- 4 mackerel fillets
- 4 tsp Olive oil
- 8 cherry tomatoes
- Juice of 1/2 Lemon
- Handful of parsley
- 4 tsp of butter
- Salt & pepper
- For the quinoa:
- 200g quinoa
- 1/4 red onion, chopped
- 1/2 red pepper, chopped
- 600mls Chicken stock (cube is fine)
- 1 tsp Harissa paste
- 1 tbsp Olive oil
- Salt & pepper
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Difficulty and servings
Serves 4
Preparation and cooking times
Ingredients
- For the fish:
- 4 mackerel fillets
- 4 tsp Olive oil
- 8 cherry tomatoes
- Juice of 1/2 Lemon
- Handful of parsley
- 4 tsp of butter
- Salt & pepper
- For the quinoa:
- 200g quinoa
- 1/4 red onion, chopped
- 1/2 red pepper, chopped
- 600mls Chicken stock (cube is fine)
- 1 tsp Harissa paste
- 1 tbsp Olive oil
- Salt & pepper
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