Name: Spiced Grilled Mackerel
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 3 tablespoons olive oil; 2 lemons, halved, to serve; juice of ½ lemon; 4 mackerel, gutted; 3 clove garlic, crushed; 1 tablespoon ground cumin; 1 teaspoon ground coriander; ½ teaspoon cayenne pepper

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Let's Eat

By Tom Parker Bowles

Published 2013

About

Mackerel: the most underrated of fish. Cheap, sustainable and, when fresh, utterly divine. The problem is that after a few days it turns from hero to stinking zero. If you have a barbecue, use it. Everything tastes better when cooked over hot coals.

Ingredients

4 mackerel, gutted
3 clove garlic, crushed
1 tablespoon

Method

Slash each mackerel diagonally 3 or 4 times on each side, then place them in a bowl. Mix together the garlic, spices, olive oil and lemon juice, then rub the mixture all over the mackerel. Cover and put in the fridge to marinate for 20 minutes.

Heat a large griddle pan over a medium heat (or even better, heat a barbecue until hot, the flames have died down and the coals glow softly). Ad