Name: Mackerel with passion fruit salsa
Yield: Serves 2
Cuisine: Brazilian
Ingredients: flaked sea salt; 2 tablespoons very finely diced red onion; 3 fat and full passion fruit, flesh and seeds scooped out; 1 tablespoon olive oil; 2 tablespoons very finely chopped fresh coriander, stalks and all; juice of ½ small juicy lime; ½ hot green chilli, such as jalapeño or serrano, seeds scooped out, very finely diced; lime wedges, to serve; flaked sea salt (approx. ½ teaspoon for each fish); 2 medium mackerel, gutted and wiped as dry as possible

Preparation info

Serves
2

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

What to Eat Next

By Valentine Warner

Published 2014

About

My friend Joe came across this after filming in Brazil. He told me the story of a man in a battered hat behind his stall on a coastal road, leaning over a tiny barbecue as he knocked up this salsa in seconds to then pour it over a charred and sizzling piece of fish. I went home and cooked it immediately, knowing it would be delicious - and it was! I can imagine that the sauce would also work well with thin slices of raw fish, marinated like a ceviche.

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