Smoked mackerel pâté
Serve smoked mackerel pate can be served with toast and salad as lunch, light meal, or starter for a formal dinner. Serve on bite size pieces of toast as appetizer, garnished with herbs, slices of cucumber or tomato or lemon slices.
Ingredients
Instructions
Put the mackerel, butter, mayonnaise, lemon juice and zest in the bowl of thr food processor.
Blend for 1 minute, season, and process 30-60 seconds more. Mix in the herbs, if using.
Chill for 30 minutes, or until needed.
Distribute pate among individual bowls or plates.
Garnish and serve with toasted bread.
Notes
Smoked mackerel is usually packed as fillets, and 6 ounces would make about 4 fillets.
Don´t give up if you don´t have a food processor, chop the fish finely and mix by hand, use mortar and pestle, or a food mill with a coarse grid.
Serve garnished with parsley and lemon slices, lettuce leaves, cherry tomatoes, halved, and other vegetables. For more flavour, substitute mayonnaise with one of its variations or some other sauce, as horseradish sauce, for instance.
Source
Chill the pâté directly in individual bowls.
The smoked mackerel pate is an easy and elegant dish for a festive meal.
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