SpainRECIPE FOR BAKED MACKEREL
    
 

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Baked Mackerel with Potatoes in Garlic Sauce
This delicious mackerel recipe makes a wonderful evening meal

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Basic ingredients

  • 2 fresh mackerels (800g each)
  • 1 lemon
  • olive oil
  • salt
  • 1 tbsp cider vinegar
  • 6 cloves of garlic
  • 1 dried chilli
  • chopped parsley
  • 4 potatoes
  • 1/2 onion

Steps:

1. Clean the mackerel place on a plate lightly sprinkle with salt and pour over a little olive oil

2. Make cuts in the side of the fish and place a slice of lemon in each

3. Bake in a hot oven (200 degrees) for approx 20 mins

4. To make the garlic sauce put a generous amount of olive oil in a frying pan (about 8 tbsp), the finely sliced garlic cloves and the whole dried chilli and fry over a medium to low heat remove the whole dried chilli once the sauce is ready and the garlic has turned golden

5. Peel and slice the potatoes, chop the onion and fry together in a separate frying pan in a little olive oil

6. Remove the fish from the oven open them up and remove the bones and place on a serving plate then sprinkle over the cider vinegar and pour the garlic sauce over the fish

7. Place the fried potato slices and onion around the edges of the fish and garnish with a little chopped parsley before serving

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Tips and ideas:
  • Be careful not to burn the garlic in the oil - it doesn´t take long for it to go from golden to burnt black!
  • Serve with a green salad, warm bread and a chilled bottle of white wine. A Galician wine from the Ribeira region is an excellent choice for this recipe.

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Recipe for baked mackerel
 
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