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Produce => Recipes => Topic started by: gazza1960 on August 17, 2014, 11:28:47
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Just pop along to your local beach and catch a few for supper......whats that you live inland......ok.Tescos it is then..!!!!!!!
Seemed the thing to do with Fresh mackies that I caught from Chesil beach in Dorset sitting in the fridge ....
....so what to do.
Simply Fried.....sorted.
INGREDIENTS
2 MACKERAL ( 1 PER PERSON) filleted and cut into strips
salt and pepper
POTATO CRISPS
1LB New Potatoes peeled and cut into 2mm slices
Fresh Rosemary and Thyme stalks or use 1/2 tsp dried
Olive Oil for cooking
splodge of Butter
salt and pepper
ONION & TOMATO WITH GARLIC
3 Fresh Ripe tommies cut small
1 Red Onion cut small
2 cloves of Garlic sliced
salt and pepper
MICROWAVED APPLE SAUCE
2 Cooking apples cored and peeled and cut small
sprinkle of Cinnamon
Sprinkle of Fresh Nutmeg
sprinkle of sugar
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Some days pin boning just aint on the menu so todays mackies
were filleted and strips cut either side of the bone....job done !!!!
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OK....OK...I know its not to everybodys taste but im a convert now to have
apple sauce with mackerel as it stops indigestion in its trax !!!!
Dead easy.........put the chopped apples in a microwavable bowl and sprinkle with the cinnamon and nutmeg and sugar add 50ml of water
bind together....cover with cling film and make a few holes....set micro on
high for 5 mins.....let this cool and remove cling film....give a stir and set aside.....super quick apple sauce....add more sugar or spice should you wish.
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Ok,lets make the Potato crisps,...there chips I hear you cry...no there not there crisps....right.....heat some olive oil in the pan/wok and add a thingy of butter and the herbs ......fry potato slices on a high heat to brown then turn heat down and fry both sides till slices are "crisp and crunchy",remove when cooked through and keep warm.
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while flavoured oil is still hot add the chopped toms,Garlic and onions
fry through till cooked and pulpy,once cooked set aside and keep warm.
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Fry seasoned Mackerel strips in hot oil skin side down till flesh turns opaque at last minute turn heat off and turn strips over to finish cooking.
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A rough and ready fried mixture when your in the mood for Mackeral...
Plate up and enjoy a light lunch or supper of fried mackerel with crispy
potato slices,onion and tomato and a blob of Apple sauce.
Enjoy
Gazza
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They stunningly fresh mackerel, how has fishing been at chesil beach?
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The last winter storms have ruined fishing,it's taken 6 months for the mackerel to show,I sat there the other nite and at dusk the sea exploded in front of me ,there was a 50 yd circle of them making the sea surface boil....I took 3o home for the table and bait,there must have been a shoal of 1000's
Left over,for next time.
That said,I've been catching Bream and some early codling have been making a show
So hopefully well have a coddy filled winter on the shingle.
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I've not tried apple sauce with mackerel before but will give it a go. Another interesting dish to try, thanks.