Herb Baked Mackerel

Perfect with new potatoes and your favourite veggies, this herb baked mackerel recipe is a real delight. Perfect for a midweek meal.

Cook Time

25 mins

Ingredients

8 mackerel fillets, pin boned

40g melted butter

55g unsalted butter, softened

4 tablespoon chopped parsley

1 small onion, grated

1 tablespoon snipped chives

2 tablespoon lemon juice

½ teaspoon chopped chives

¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper

1 tablespoon Dijon mustard

2 cloves garlic crushed to a paste with a little salt (use a garlic press)

Method

Preheat oven to 200°C/Gas 6.

Take a large baking tray and line with a double thickness sheet of Bacofoil, allowing for plenty of excess to enclose the fish.

Lightly brush the foil with melted butter (unless you’re using Bacofoil® The Non-Stick Kitchen Foil). Combine the remaining ingredients except the mackerel to produce a herby paste.

Place four fillets of mackerel skin side down on the buttered foil. Divide the herb mixture into four and spread over the flesh side. Sandwich the filling on each fish fillet with the remaining four fillets, flesh side down. Lightly brush the skin with the remaining melted butter.

Gather up the sides of the foil and secure the edges by folding and pinching them together, creating an airtight parcel. Place in the oven and cook for 25 minutes.

Unwrap and serve each fish ‘sandwich’ on a warm plate with new potatoes and a green vegetable or salad. Pour any juices that remain in the foil over the fish.