Baked mackerel with beetroot salad
Oily fish at an affordable price. Get the beetroot ready the night before.
⏱ 30 min · serves 3 · Lithuanian home cooking · Not spicy at all
536kcal
31 gprotein
49 gcarbs
24 gfat
8 gfibre
Per serving, out of 3. Worked out from the grams of each ingredient using a food database – so it's approximate.
Allergens: Fish
Ingredients (serves 3)
- Mackerel (raw)400 g
- Beetroot (cooked)400 g
- Potatoes (raw)600 g
- Onion50 g
- Olive oil15 g
Also: Lemon, dill, salt
Method
- Get ready: turn the oven on to 200 °C to heat up (about 10 min) and line a baking tray with baking paper. Peel the potatoes (600 g) and cut them into similar-sized pieces.
- Cover the potatoes with cold water and season lightly with salt. Bring to the boil over high heat, then cook over medium heat for 15–20 min, until a knife slides in easily.
- While the potatoes cook, pat the mackerel (400 g) dry with kitchen paper, season with salt and lay it on the tray skin side up.
- Bake the mackerel in the oven at 200 °C for about 15 min, until the flesh is no longer translucent and flakes easily with a fork.
- While the fish bakes, coarsely grate the cooked beetroot (400 g). Chop the onion (50 g) very finely.
- Mix the beetroot with the onion, 1.5 tbsp olive oil (15 g) and a pinch of salt.
- Drain the potatoes and sprinkle with dill. Serve with the fish and beetroot salad, and drizzle with lemon juice.
Tips
- Mackerel skin bakes up crispy – put it skin side up.
- Buy vacuum-packed cooked beetroot – you'll save an hour.
- Eat cooked fish within 2 days.
- Want it hotter? A teaspoon of horseradish in the beetroot salad.
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