Posh budget recipe for 2 people, takes only 20 mins; recipe has butter, lemon, smoked mackerel, spring onion, butter, horseradish, parsley and bread.
Smoked mackerel pate with French bread & horseradish
Course: Posh budget
Servings
2
servings
Prep time
15 mins
Ingredients
- Butter: 25g unsalted butter, melted
- Lemon: zest 1/2 lemon
- Smoked Mackerel: 160g pack smoked mackerel (split fillets), skinned
- Spring Onion: 1 spring onion, roughly chopped
- Horseradish: 1 tsp hot horseradish sauce, plus extra to serve
- Parsley: 1 tsp finely chopped flat-leaf parsley, plus a few leaves
- Bread: French bread, to serve
Directions
- Tip the melted butter, lemon zest, mackerel and spring onion into a food processor and blend until smooth. Spoon into a ramekin and smooth the top.
- For the topping, melt the 15g butter with the horseradish, then stir in the parsley. Carefully spoon over the pate to cover it. Press some parsley leaves on top, grind over some black pepper and chill to set the butter. Serve the ramekin of pate with French bread, butter and extra horseradish sauce.
