Although you can buy this ready made quite easily I think you can achieve a much better result at home as you can adapt it to your tastes. It’s great garnished with any pickled gherkins or beetroot that you have handy and served with oatcakes or melba toast. For the chopped herbs either parsley, dill or chives work well or if you can use all three!
Serves 2
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: none
200g smoked mackerel fillets
75g cream cheese
1 heaped tbsp mayonnaise
1 tbsp chopped herbs (e.g. parsley)
Juice of half a lemon
Few dashes of Worcestershire sauce
¼ tsp paprika
Few dashes of Tabasco or hot sauce
Pepper to taste
Oatcakes & pickles to serve
Remove the skin from the mackerel fillets and put them into a bowl. Using a fork mash the fillets until they are broken up and flaked, if you spot any bones remove them.
Add the cream cheese and mayonnaise and continue mashing until you reach a pate like consistency. Start adding the remaining ingredients and taste as you go. It’s all about personal preference so add as much lemon or Tabasco as you like.
Serve in small ramekins with any pickles you have to hand and some oatcakes.
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