Mackerel Croquettes

Name: Mackerel Croquettes
Yield: Serves 4–6
Ingredients: 1 smoked mackerel fillet; 1 bunch of spring onions, chopped; Salt and freshly ground white pepper; 1 lemon or lime, cut into wedges; 1 quantity Lemon Butter Sauce; 225–350 g (8–12 oz) Mashed Potatoes, without milk, butter or cream; Cayenne pepper; 1 glass white wine; 100 g (4 oz) breadcrumbs; 25 g (1 oz) unsalted butter and cooking oil or oil for deep-frying; 1 egg, beaten; 2 tablespoons plain flour; 2 shallots or 1 small onion, finely chopped; 4 mackerel fillets, skinned

Preparation info

Serves
4–6

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

More Rhodes Around Britain

By Gary Rhodes

Published 1995

About

These croquettes can be made with other fish: salmon, cod, prawns or shrimps. In this mackerel recipe, I’ve added one small fillet of smoked mackerel. This is not essential, but it does enhance the whole flavour of the fish without being overpowering.

Ingredients

4 mackerel fillets, skinned
2 shallots or 1 small onion, finely chopped
Salt and freshly ground white pepper</

Starter
Fish course
Pescatarian

Method

Pre-heat the oven to 200°C/400°F/gas 6 and butter a roasting tray.

To remove the central bones from the mackerel fillets, cut either side of the bones straight through the fish. This will leave eight strips of mackerel. Sit the fish on the tray with the chopped shallots, and se