Grilled mackerel fillets
- Preparation and cooking time
- Prep:
- Cook:
- plus 20 mins marinating
- Easy
- Serves 2
Ingredients
- 2 large mackerel fillets
For the marinade
- 2 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 tbsp honey
- 1 tsp ground ginger
- 1 garlic clove, crushed to a purée
- 1 tbsp saké or dry sherry
- 1 tsp chilli flakes
For the salad
- 2 tsp sesame oil
- ½ lime, juiced
- 1 tsp soy sauce
- 1 tsp honey
- 1 tsp sweet chilli sauce
- 80g Asian-style salad mix (pea shoots, purple radish and coriander)
Method
- STEP 1
Mix all the marinade ingredients, then pour over the fish. Set aside for 20 mins.
- STEP 2
For the salad, combine the sesame oil, lime juice, soy, honey and sweet chilli to make a dressing, then toss with the leaves.
- STEP 3
Grill the marinated mackerel under a hot grill for 5 mins, basting two or three times with any excess marinade, until the flesh begins to flake. Slice and serve with the dressed salad leaves.