Spiced mackerel fillets with potato salad

Spiced mackerel fillets with potato salad

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Cooking time

Ready in 40 minutes

Skill level

Easy

Servings

Serves 4

The fish in this recipe has juicy flesh and a rich flavour, and it's good for you too

Nutrition and extra info

Nutrition info

Nutrition

kcalories
517
protein
31.5g
carbs
23.3g
fat
33.8g
saturates
6.1g
fibre
1.6g
sugar
-
salt
0.29g
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Ingredients

  • 2 tsp cumin seeds, crushed
  • 2 tsp coriander seeds, crushed
  • ½ tsp cayenne pepper
  • ½ tsp turmeric
  • 2 lemons, 1 juiced, 1 cut into wedges to serve
  • 8 mackerel fillets, skin on and scaled

Potato salad

  • 500g small new potatoes, halved
  • 4 spring onions, chopped
  • 1 lemon, zested and juiced
  • 3 tbsp olive oil
  • a large bunch parsley, chopped

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Method

  1. Mix together the cumin, coriander, cayenne and turmeric with the lemon juice and season really well. Make diagonal slashes in the skin of the mackerel and rub the spice mix all over. Leave for 20 minutes to marinate.
  2. To make the salad, boil the potatoes for about 20 minutes until tender. Toss with the other ingredients while warm.
  3. Grill the mackerel skin-side up for about 7 minutes until cooked through. Serve with the potato salad.

Recipe from olive magazine, July 2007

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fconnor02:07, 6th Jun, 2012
4

Delicious. Always looking out for new mackerel recipes as we have an abundance of the fish over the summer months. Will definitely be using this recipe again. Made it with the potato salad which I found stopped the dish being too dry as previously commented.

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lydiasimmons03:56, 5th Jul, 2010
3

Really quick and easy. healthy too. not dinner party material but perfect for a mid-week meal or lunch. Loved the flavours with the mackerell

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placebo_effect02:37, 6th Jul, 2009
3

This was a delicious, healthy, summery dinner! I replaced cumin seeds with something else because I didn't have any and I used dried rather than fresh parsley, but still lovely!

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lizzafezza08:26, 23rd Jan, 2008
5

Really tasty and quick. As the mackerel is quite a robust fish it was able to stand up to the spices.

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