Name: Mackerel Parmentier
Prep time: 60 min
Cook time: 30 min
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

Revisiting a classic fish dish from my childhood!

Mackerel Parmentier

Preparation: Just a pinch of patience

Prep Time: 1

Cook Time: 30

Serves: 6

Calories: 392kcal

Daily Value: 22%

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;