Smoked Mackerel Fillets with Smoked Cod’s Roe Sauce

Name: Smoked Mackerel Fillets with Smoked Cod’s Roe Sauce
Ingredients: juice of ½ lemon; black pepper, salt; single cream or top of the milk; parsley or fennel leaves to decorate; 8 oz cream cheese (225 g); about 4 oz smoked cod’s roe (110 g); 1 large or 2 smaller smoked mackerel

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

A Taste of Dreams

By Josceline Dimbleby

Published 1976

About

Smoked mackerel can be bought or ordered from most good fishmongers – it is always moist and full of flavour. It is good eaten just filleted with lemon juice squeezed over it But for a change this is a delicious way to use it.

Ingredients

1 large or 2 smaller smoked mackerel
8 oz cream cheese (225

Starter
Pescatarian
Gluten-free

Method

Cut the mackerel open and take out the flesh leaving the skin and bones. Arrange the pieces of fish in a shallow dish. Into a bowl put the cream cheese, smoked cod’s roe (if you buy it in a piece take the skin off first) and the lemon juice and mash up very thoroughly with a fork; if you have a liquidiser it is much easier to do it in that and makes a smoother sauce. Add a lot of black pepper a