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Mackerel and Rhubarb

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Mackerel and Rhubarb

Lightly roasted rhubarb and mackerel topped with hazelnuts make for a unique, Scandinavian-inspired starter. Serve this dish with a simple cucumber salad, crème fraîche, and a sprinkle of fresh dill.
Serves 6
Total 30 min
Prep 15 min
Cook 15 min
Easy

Introduction from Rukmini Iyer

This light, refreshing, Scandinavian-inspired dish makes a lovely starter for a dinner party. The rhubarb is roasted for just long enough to cook through but still hold its shape, a perfect foil to the mackerel.

Ingredients

650g rhubarb, cut into 5cm sticks
5 (170g) shallots, very finely sliced
1½ tbsp white wine vinegar
1 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp sugar
6 mackerel fillets, pinboned (you can ask your fishmonger to do this)
30g hazelnuts
½ cucumber, shaved into ribbons
1 tsp sea salt
1 tbsp white wine vinegar
10g fresh dill, roughly chopped
6 tbsp crème fraîche

Method

Preheat your oven to 180°C fan/200°C/gas 6. Place the rhubarb, shallots, vinegar, olive oil and sugar in a roasting tin and mix well.

Lay the mackerel fillets over the rhubarb, cover the dish with foil, then transfer to the oven and bake for 15 minutes.

After 10 minutes, remove the foil and scatter over the hazelnuts. Return to the oven for the final 5 minutes uncovered.

Meanwhile, mix the cucumber, sea salt and white wine vinegar with half the dill.

Serve the cooked mackerel and rhubarb alongside the cucumber salad and crème fraîche, and sprinkle with the remaining dill.

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From the book: The Roasting Tin: Deliciously Simple One-Dish Dinners

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