Your best Spanish Mackerel Recipes?
Submitted by PattyT on Tue, 2011-05-31 20:08
hey guys, just after some nice recipes for mackerel... hoping to be eating some over the next few weeks (fingers crossed). I remember having cajun spiced Mackerel once in Airlie Beach.. still the best piece of fish iv had.
Look forward to your responces.
hlokk
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Fresh mackie can be cooked
Fresh mackie can be cooked just about any way, even just by itself with a small amount of salt and cracked pepper, yum.
I'm sure the masterchefs will give you some good and fancy recipes, but one I like for fresh mackie. Cut into cubes, roll in plain yoghurt then dip in panko bread crumbs. Then just cook up in a pan. Super simple, but really nice.
PattyT
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That does sound pretty nice
That does sound pretty nice hlokk, cheers for that.
alfred
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Here is a dish can be cooked
Here is a dish can be cooked with any sea food, but it was specially created for Spanish Mackerel.
This is a typical Malay dish, so not many of you will be familiar with it, but I thought I'd share it with those of you who may have seen or tried it before. The presentation is different, it is usually wrapped on coconut or banana leaf, both of which is pretty hard to get here! I tend to cook it in trays as I make a bulk portion as the family loves it as well.
It is really easy to prep.
Otak-Otak (Spicy Fish Custard)
Ingredients:
500g fish fillet (slices)
Custard ingredients:
2 eggs
1 cup coconut milk
2 tsp rice flour
3 kaffir lime leaves (finely sliced)
1 tsp salt
1 tsp sugar
Spice Paste
10 shallots
3 cloves garlic
5 fresh red chilies
4 dried red chilies
2 stalks lemon grass
1 inch galangal
1 inch turmeric
20g shrimp paste (toasted)
Method:
1. Chop the spice paste ingredients and then blend it in a food processor until fine.
2. Combine the custard ingredients,add in spice paste and mix well.
3. Oil a baking dish and place fish slices in it, then pour the mixture into the dish and bake for 20-25min at 190C.
4. Serve with rice
marble
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Thanks for that Alfred. after
Thanks for that Alfred. after Bec saw that recipe now I gotta take all that stuff and the oven on the boat this weekend . . . Looks really good, better get a mackie soon I think.
Way different but we do mackie sometimes . . . make a spaghetti sauce ,tomato, garlic, chilli, onion etc. Roll cubes off mackie in flour and pan fry while cooking some spag. Mix the fish and sauce and spoon aver the spag,top with parmesan . Good gear.
Or hot smoke 20mm thick fillets and have with icy beers . . Good too
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alfred
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Pre blend the spices and your
Pre blend the spices and your set as the rest can be done on the spot.
fishnut
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thanks alfred - delicious!
tried this on the weekend (used skippy) and it is awesome! I will definately be making it again. The missus is a fussy fish eater, but she loved the flavours of this - thanks for sharing it alfred.
alfred
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Cheers! Glad that you
Cheers! Glad that you enjoyed it.
PattyT
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:)
Awesome!! Thanks for going to that effort Alfred.
mullows
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My favourite way is to fillet
My favourite way is to fillet the mackie so you end up with your pair of cricket bats. Then thinly slice away from the skin on an angle so that each fillet is about 1cm thick and a mini steak of sorts.
Dip those in some flour, then to the egg wash, and then panko bread crumbs that have some Dukkah added for extra flavour. Into the pan with oil and butter and the fillets are just magic.
Cheers
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Steaks or Fillets?
On this topic, fillets or steaks?
Closer the bone the Sweeter the meat or fillets and no spine?
Personally I thought both were excellent in their own right.
Busted Arse
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Used to be a steaks man but
Used to be a steaks man but am now a fillets man.
Fresh mackeral fillets pan fried in butter, garlic and parsley pastes.
Careful not to burn the parsley or else yum.
Spicey
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Keeping simple. Mackerel
Keeping simple. Mackerel cutlets (slicing the fish down through the back bone) and a dob of oyster sauce on each side straight on the BBQ it caramelizes a bit. Served up with a squeeze of lime.
Rig
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Egg and bread crumbs
Egg and breadcrumbs for me, when in Vietnam recently we did a cooking class and cooked a spaniola cutlet in a clay pot style curry. It was very nice but you could have used any old fish because the flavours over powered it.
Beer batter is good also
Dale
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Just keep it simple, lightly
Just keep it simple, lightly fried up slices of fillet, salt and pepper and a little vinegar, absolutely excellent.
Cheers
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Go the reverse cutlet. Lay
Go the reverse cutlet. Lay cutlet flat, cut out the vertebrae, cut the skin at one of the joins and spin it around so the skin ends up where the vertebrae was. Lemon pepper or Morrocan or whatever - great for kids as there are no bones and tastes ok.
Mick
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I do a pretty awesome Thai
I do a pretty awesome Thai Green currry. or even a Laksa. Mackie is such a versatile fish and I always have plenty in the freezer.
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just dhu it
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sweet chilli
simply one is cover the fillets in sweet chilli sauce then onto the BBQ and cook
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Tempura beer batter!! Gold.
Tempura beer batter!! Gold. Home made Tartare!!
jamesconnelly85
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Salt, pepper, butter....
Salt, pepper, butter.... ooohh hh yeh. Simple - Fantastic
roberta
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Ugh none
of the above I mean the fish, mackrel is way to oily for me, but love all the different spices, Alfred I'm going to try that with a nice dhuie fillet or baldie, when we get out fishing again.
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whoever put that fish chowder
whoever put that fish chowder recipie up here the other day i made that one with some Mackerel and prawns and damm it was VERY nice!
I'm a simple man, eggs, flour and breadcrums with all season and lemon pepper added with a garlic sauce mmmmm can't beat it, i also make my fillets quite thin too.
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