
Smoked Mackerel Salad
55m
This is a super lunch dish made with seasonal summer vegetables, a beautifully smoked mackerel, and a horseradish sauce that just brings everything together.
In case you can’t find smoked mackerel, it can be replaced with any kind of smoked fish.
Fill a pot with halfway with water
Add salt to taste
Add 250 g of potatoes and cook over medium heat until still intact, but easily pierced with a fork. Remove them from the hot water
Trim and peel 1 small horseradish root
Finely grate ¼ cup of horseradish into a bowl with 2/3 cup of crème fraîche
Season with salt to taste
Mix until everything is combined
Add the juice of 1 lemon into the bowl
Add 50 ml of water and mix until thoroughly combined. The Horseradish Sauce is ready
Cut off the tip of the stem of 1 head of gem lettuce. Cut it in half
Trim 2 red spring onions. Cut the onions in half and remove the upper tip of the stems
Cut 8 stalks of broccolini in the middle, separating the flower from the stem
Add salt to taste to a skillet over medium-high heat
Add the vegetables, with the lettuce and onions cut-side down
Sear until browned. Transfer to a tray
Cut 1 cucumber in half. Chop it while moving the cucumber to cut diagonal chunks
Roughly chop the potatoes into chunks
Quarter each half of lettuce and halve the onions pieces
Arrange the vegetables on a serving plate
Remove the skin of 1 smoked mackerel. Pull the flesh off the bones and break it into large pieces over the vegetables
Dress with the horseradish sauce to taste
Garnish with some watercress and picked dill to taste. The Smoked Mackerel Salad is ready
Enjoy making this salad when you have friends coming over! It is perfect for sharing!
Yield 4 people
Smoked Mackerel
1Gem Lettuce
1 headRed Spring Onion
2Broccolini
8 stalksPotato
250 gCucumber
1Picked Dill
to garnishWatercress
to garnishSalt
to taste
Horseradish Sauce
Horseradish
¼ cupCrème Fraîche
⅔ cupLemon
1Water
50 mlSalt
to taste
Equipment
Fine Grater