How to make mackerel with gooseberry, lime and chilli marinade
Tangy fruit and oily fish go well together. This marinade is perfect with mackerel, herring or sardines, especially when cooked on the barbecue
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Prep: 10 mins
Cook: 5 mins
175g gooseberries, topped, tailed and sliced
1 stick lemon grass, bruised and broken up
2 cloves garlic, halved and gently crushed
½ red chilli, deseeded and chopped
4tbsp olive oil
2tbsp lime juice
Piece of lime rind
1tbsp chopped coriander
Salt and black pepper
8 mackerel fillets
4tbsp Pernod or Pastis
Place the mackerel in a long gratin dish with the lemon grass, garlic and chilli. Add the oil, lime juice, rind and seasoning. Mix well. Turn once to cover well and then leave for up to one hour.
Remove the fish from the marinade, and grill or barbecue fast for two minutes on each side.
Place the marinade in a small pan with the Pastis and cook only until the liquid bubbles and the gooseberries begin to fall. Then serve a little with each fish.
Recipe from berryworld.com
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