Smoked mackerel pate with French bread & horseradish

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

Smoked mackerel pate with French bread & horseradish

Recipe by Chef Soomro Course: Posh budget
Servings

2

servings
Prep time

15 mins

Ingredients

  • Spring Onion: 1 spring onion, roughly chopped
  • Parsley: 1 tsp finely chopped flat-leaf parsley, plus a few leaves
  • Lemon: zest 1/2 lemon
  • Butter: 25g unsalted butter, melted
  • Bread: French bread, to serve
  • Horseradish: 1 tsp hot horseradish sauce, plus extra to serve
  • Smoked Mackerel: 160g pack smoked mackerel (split fillets), skinned

Directions

  1. 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.
  2. 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.