Pan-grilled Mackerel with Maître d’Hôtel Butter*

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Simply Delicious: Book 1

By Darina Allen

Published 1989

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Ingredients

  • 8 fillets of very fresh mackerel (allow 170 g/6 ozs fish for main course, 85

Method

First make the Maître d–Hôtel Butter. Cream the butter, stir in the parsley and a few drops of lemon juice at a time. Roll into butter pats or form into a roll and wrap in greaseproof paper or tin foil, screwing each end so that it looks like a cracker. Refrigerate to harden.

Heat the grill pan. Dip the fish fillets in flour which has been seasoned with salt and freshly-ground pepper. S