Mackerel Tataki

Name: Mackerel Tataki
Yield: Serves 2
Ingredients: 2 teaspoons sesame seeds; 2 small spring onions; 1 medium very fresh mackerel, gutted and degilled; ½ sheet of toasted Nori seaweed (optional); a squeeze of lemon juice; ½ thumb of fresh root ginger; 1½ teaspoons sesame oil; 2 teaspoons good Japanese soy sauce

Preparation info

Serves
2

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

What to Eat Now (Spring & Summer)

By Valentine Warner

Published 2009

About

This is a fine way to approach small and lean summer mackerel. The tastes are so clean. If you carry a tiny case with the rapid response kit of ingredients, you can make this outdoors with fish caught or bought. Make sure that the fish is super-fresh.

Ingredients

2 teaspoons sesame seeds
1 medium very fresh mackerel, gutted and degilled
½ thumb

Fish course
Pescatarian
Summer

Method

In a small frying pan, toast the sesame seeds until light golden brown, then tip them out and leave them to cool. Fillet, de-bone and skin the fish.

Removing the cellophane-thin skin of a mackerel can be tricky and, I must tell you, is not totally necessary, but it makes the dish that much better. Chop the fish into small pieces no bigger than Scrabble pieces and put them in the bowl yo