what do you do with smoked peppered mackeral?

[EleanorReally]

I could make a risotto
but what else?

Make fish cakes?
Use instead of tuna in a Niçoise salad?

Smoked mackerel leek horseradish hash with poached eggs....every time :)

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/smoked-mackerel-leek-hash-horseradish

I just made a smoked mackerel pate and my children are now moaning about the smell. It's delicious. They're weird.

This. Ds2 loves it,

I find it a bit dismal and boring to eat on it's own with salad . It's like some retro 1970s WeightWatchers suggestion.

You want to flake it up, mash with Philadelphia cream cheese and have it on thin, hot very brown toast with black pepper and a squeeze of lemon.

@batinahat, that's one of our favourite recipes. 5 ingredients, super delicious!!

Grill it and serve with roasted tomatoes and pan fried buttered green beans

Spaghetti carbonara with mackerel yum yum

Used to have that fairly often and liked it, as a starter. Just as it was, on a plate with some garnish.

It always gave me indigestion so I stopped having it. It is nice though.

Yes, I'm sure it would work in a risotto or a kedgeree.

Scrambled eggs and mushrooms.

Would ideally be poached eggs but I can't cook them.

I just made a smoked mackerel pate and my children are now moaning about the smell. It's delicious. They're weird.

Don't despair, mine were similar, but they learned.

I love it! As well as all the other suggestions there is an amazing noodle salad recipe on the waitrose site I think it is.

Shred and mix with creme fraiche. Truly delicious pâté

Mackerel pate. Our family recipe is: flake the mackerel (I usually wear gloves to do this with my hands because it's easiest to detect bones), then mix with zest and juice of half a lemon, enough creme fraiche to loosen it, and a spoon of creamed horseradish. DS usually makes this with soda bread as a starter... I wonder if he's up for it tomorrow...

Put it on a plate with some chips or potatoes and some veg and eat it. Yeah, I'm boring.

Heck, I might not even do that, I could just scoff it straight out of the packet.

Bin it. In the wrapper so it doesn’t stink. Nasty things.

I like it with cauliflower cheese

I just have it heated on toast!

Cook penne pasta
Gently fry some chopped leeks then stir in the mackerel and some creme fraiche
Mix with the pasta into a dish, then put breadcrumbs and grated parmesan on top and grill it

That leek and egg thing looks lush!

I'd have it with cous cous, peppers, spring onions, parsely and olive oil.

Bed of spinach.

Quinoa, cucumber, red pepper and mango mixed up with curried yoghurt.

Mackerel flakes on top. Delicious!

I would have it with a poached egg and steamed spinach (if I could get a minion to do the cooking for me).

All of these sound delicious (except for the heretic who wants to bin it!). But my vote is for included in/as the makings of a delicious fish pie or tart. A good white sauce with plenty of lemon zest and dill for the filling, mixed with mackerel. You could add other fish but it's really good with leeks and spring onions and nothing else. Then your usual fish pie top.

Another vote for binning the nasty, stinky stuff... in a sealed plastic bag so the bin doesn't smell. I make no apologies, I detest everything about fish

Pate, in fish pie and flaked into an eggy quiche filling, to be eaten hot or cold.