Mackerel Parmentier: A tasty fish casserole!

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Revisiting a classic fish dish from my childhood!

Mackerel Parmentier

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Prep Time: 1 hour hour

Cook Time: 30 minutes minutes

Serves: 6

Calories: 392kcal

Daily Value: 392kcal

Ingredients

• 3 Mackerels
• 5 shallots
• 1 Bread ( French Baguette)
• 1 Lime
• 20 cl Skimmed Milk
• 20 cl Wine Vinegar
• Chives
• Parsley
• Bay Leaf
• Pepper
• 1 Garlic Clove

Instructions

Cook the mackerels

• In a large frying pan, boil water with one crushed clove of garlic, a peeled shallot, the bay leaf and a branch of parsley;
  
• Reduce heat and put the mackerels into the water;

  Poach the mackerels on very low heat for 15 minutes;
  

Prepare the bread stuffing

• Cut the bread into small pieces; soak in the milk;
  
• Finely chisel the shallots and the herbs;
  
• Boil the shallots in the vinegar;
  
• Reduce the shallots in the vinegar; stir in the herbs at the very end;
  
• Continue to gently boil the vinegar until evaporated;
  
• Stir the reduced vinegar with shallots in the soaked bread.;

  Crush with a fork until smooth;

  Season with pepper and a dash of lime juice;
  

Almost finished!

• Fillet the mackerels;

  Remove all fishbones, be careful to the very thin ones;
  
• Fill a large oven pan with a layer of the mackerel fillets;

  You can use individual casserole as well;
  
• Cover the fish fillets with a layer of the bread stuffing;
  
• Decorate with slices of lime and bay leaves;

  Pour a generous dash of lime juice;
  
• Bake in an oven, at 180°C, for 30/40 minutes until gently browned;
  

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