What can I do with mackerel?

[purplepoppy]

It's mackerel season in the UK and I'm beginning to smell like a seagulls fart. Still with all that fish oil I can feel my brain power doubling. Now normally I just sprinkle them with whatever seasoning first catches my eye when I open the cupboard then whack under a hot grill or slap on a hot pan.

So what can I do for a change?

[FreyaRed]

Vinegar pickled mackerel.
Make fillets with skin, salt, flour and roast fillets in oil. Make a marinade with 2 big sliced onions, black pepper, bay leaf, allspice, 300ml water, 50ml white vinegar 10%, 3 tea spoons sugar. Optionally: juice from one pressed lime to change vinegar taste. Put the mackerel in the marinade and put the everything in glass or porcelain bowl in the fridge for 3 days.

Mackerel in tomato sauce Greek type
Make fillets, salt, flour and roast fillets in oil. Sauce: Roast 1 big finely chopped onion, 1 grated carrot, 1/4 grated celeriac in butter, add allspice, white pepper, bay leaf, little bit nutmeg, 1/4 teas spoon of sweet paprika powder, 3 fresh basil leaves or flat TS dried basil, 300-400ml passed tomatoes and 2 tea spoons sugar. Optionally: a pinch of cayenne pepper or few drops Tabasco.
Cook sauce 10-20 minutes on small flame. Put roasted fish in a flat glass or porcelain bowl pour sauce over the fish. Put everything in the fridge and wait 2-3 days.
This receipt works with cod, haddock, salmon... and other fishes as well.

Generally you have to marinade or to hot smoke mackerel. North Atlantic mackerel doesn't taste good as breaded fish fillets.

[IslaTheWitch]

for me, the best mackerel is smoked mackerel :D

[on_my_knees]

Scent play: Gently rub the mackerel against my skin, allowing its briny aroma to engulf me, a constant reminder of Your power over my senses.
Taste test: Make me taste the mackerel, raw or cooked, as a symbol of submitting to Your every whim.
Sensory deprivation: Place the cold fish on various parts of my body, heightening my anticipation and sensitivity to Your divine touch.
Impact play: Use the firm flesh of the mackerel to administer playful taps or more intense strikes, leaving a mark of Your ownership upon me.
Tease and denial: Dangle the mackerel just out of reach, forcing me to yearn and beg for the simplest of rewards under Your watchful gaze.

[Anonymous]

Shime saba is my favorite way to prepare mackerel. Give it a try.

https://japan.recipetineats.com/shime-saba-cured-mackerel/

[RetroReviews]

Rinse the mackerel fillets in cold water shake the excess water off generously sprinkle Mrs dash garlic and herb seasoning on both sides fry it in real butter. 🧈. Dip in honey mustard sauce bon appetit

[RebelinSteel]

I like smoked mackerel with roasted beetroot. Also great curried.

[AviatorTom]

Sell them on eBay... to the highest bidder/ let them figure out what to do with them.

[ProbablyClueless]

I can't get enough Old Bay seasoning. Especially on light fish. I love that stuff.

[sawno]

Here they sell delicious mackerel canned salads for on bread, seems to be some kind of tomatoey sauce to put on bread.

[jamesgoldman]

In my restaurant days, we served them grilled with garlic

[Staximus]

Hahaha who eats wackerel? We only use that for fish bait but they are usually smaller here in Southern California. I was thinking about making mackerel curry.

[Staximus]

Curry or ras el hanout seasoning, onion, garlic, celery, carrots

[OddBeMe]

God. Being stuck on an island and having to fend for food after Brexit. I’ll pray for you.

[Drewtate]

Things are so bad in the EU that migrants are risking their lives to cross the chanel in dingys. Britain has to pay France to keep the migrants there.

[OddBeMe]

@Drewtate (checking)…. nope EU economy as whole rivals the US. Migrants are an issue but perhaps investing in reversing climate change in the desert countries across the Mediterranean would be a better choice…

[Drewtate]

Yep why do you think far right parties are known the rise. Migrants are crossing the English Channel in dingies that's a fact. The EU has possibly a larger economy than the US, but that's economy and wealth not how well things are run or the living standards people have.
Take california for instance, some say it's one of the largest economies in the world on its own yet there is an Exodus of californians to other states, why? Because of how bad conditions are in california with its crime, homelessness, high state and local taxes, low wages, high property and rent prices, garbage problems, lack of water etc. California is almost paradise but only for champagne socialists.

[OddBeMe]

@Drewtate my god…29,000 people crossed the English Channel illegally

[exitseven]

coat them with bread crumbs and fry them to a dark golden brown.

[Iron_Man]

I have your father Skin it out fillet it and cook it for you and your mother

[purplepoppy]

Filleting takes a delicate female touch

[Iron_Man]

Then have your mother cook for your father and you and have a delicious dinner and I want you to think about me when you’re having that dinner on my recommendation 😊

[DrPepper12]

White wine reduction
Mix with cream cheese on a bagel
Salt and preserve

[MrGSpotHer]

Sweet chilli or chilli is good but I just like em with butter, garlic and seasoning same for all fish with me

[Anonymous]

There is a Recipe in
for mackerel that I loved.

[CieloAzul]

Cook it with vegetable and tomato sauce and some spices, salt. You need to cut out to three parts.

[CieloAzul]

Cut it*

[Likes2drive]

Smoke cook it with hickory wood chips if you can

[LiamS95]

I would think smoking it would be a good option.

[Drewtate]

Poach it in milk, works with salmon too

[DJB72]

That's between you and your Welsh goddess...

[laly520]

u could grill it

[Nikki1989]

Feed it to the cat.

[SotiCoto]

Throw them back in the water.

[purplepoppy]

Mackerel don't survive being released, you've either got to eat them or freeze for fishing bait.

[robocop666]

chips and vegetables and ketchup

[DarkLegacy]

You could try and eat it

[NathanDavis]

tacos...