Quick people - how do I cook a fucking mackerel?

[LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD]

Im looking at a gutted lump of fish and am wondering what the hell to do with it.

Grill
Fry?

I want to to flake it up and run it through some cous cous.

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Grill. Enjoy.

Lemon slices in the middle of you have one, oven cook or ideally grill.

Grill hot, pour an acidic dressing on top, eat with toastv

Grill definitely, until the skin goes crispy and you can tear it off and then flake off the flesh.

Good it's already gutted. Had it been slit all the way down so that you can put it flat with the open bit down ?
If not you need to cut it so you can flatten it down. Once you can run it under a cold tap to wash. Pat dry with a paper towel. You can pan fry it both sides or it really nice grilled skin side first then turn over, lovely served plain with vinegar and crusty bread.

Is it filleted or still whole but gutted?

If its whole I would stuff the couscous inside it drizzle some oil and salt over the top, maybe chuck a few cherry tomatoes in the dish too if you have them and bake for about 15 mins, serve with a squeeze of lemon over the top.

If it's fillets just fry them (oil and salt on the skin and then skin down until they are nearly booked through then flip over just to finish the other side off) and serve them with the couscous in the side

Mackerel is a very oily fish so goes well with acidic things like tomatoes and lemon.

God it stinks! It’s in a pan with some olive oil and some lemon zest.

For a penguin you seem to have an uneasy relationship with fish.

I’m veggie !

The same method as a non-copulating one I imagine.

BBQ, grill or fry.
Lemon juice
Toasted sourdough

I was going to suggest outside on a disposable bbq because of the smell. But I see that I’m too late ...

Smelly bloody fish. If he doesn’t eat every stinky morsel there will be trouble...

Stinkiest of all fish ever!

Wash your hands then rub them on the tap all over and they will be more normal.
Then rub them all over with lemon.

Who is this potentially ungrateful pescatarian? Next time I would force him to eat falafel and like It!

If you plan to make this again, next time buy smoked mackerel fillets, they need no cooking, just chop them up and add to the cous-cous.

I hate fish but this is one of my favourite thread titles ever.

As you were.

Horrible fish yuck. My mum cooked it for me once and I couldn’t eat it. I don’t eat meat and think she thought she was doing a good thing.

Never again. I was force fed some of the stinky fish about 42 years ago at a friends house and I can still taste it - ohhhh the bones!🤢

Love it. Put it in a foil parcel with butter, salt, pepper and mixed herbs. Seal up the parcel and bake. Lush.