Smoked mackerel pâté with pickles and treacle soda bread

Name: Smoked mackerel pâté with pickles and treacle soda bread
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: zest and juice of ½ lemon; 40 g crème fraîche; ¼ cucumber; 10 g dill, picked; 1 loaf of treacle soda bread; 100 ml pickle liquor; 100 g cream cheese; 200 g smoked mackerel

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Changing Tides

By Roberta Hall McCarron

Published 2024

About

We started serving treacle soda bread in our second week of opening the restaurant, and it was an instant hit – to this day it’s still the first thing you get when you sit down. It’s very easy to make and the sweetness of the bread makes a perfect combination with a smoky mackerel pâté.

Ingredients

Smoked Mackerel Pâté

200 g smoked mackerel
100 g cream cheese
10

Fish course
Pescatarian
Spring

Method

Remove any skin or bones from the smoked mackerel, then put it into a blender with the cream cheese. Blitz until you have a rough pâté – it doesn’t need to be smooth. Transfer to a mixing bowl.

Finely chop the dill leaves and add to the mackerel pâté along with the lemon zest and juice. Fold through the crème fraîche.

Grate the cucumber through the big holes on a grater and put