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Home smoked Scottish mackerel and nectarine salad Mackerel is a delicious and extremely nutritious fish, readily available to catch in Scottish inshore waters in the summer months. It is unfortunately scorned by a great many pleasure anglers, often seen as being nothing more than a fresh bait opportunity for catching other species. If you do catch some mackerel or have access to some which have been some freshly caught, there are a great many easy ways in which you can cook it up and serve it on a plate to delight your taste buds and those of your family. It may not seem obvious but a great accompaniment to particularly smoked mackerel is sweet fresh fruit such as peaches or nectarines. This simple salad has deliberately very few ingredients to allow the flavour of the smoked mackerel to shine through. Freshly smoked mackerel Ingredients (Serves 1) 1 freshly smoked whole mackerel 1 nectarine 4 or 5 lettuce leaves Salt and pepper Bread and butter to serve (optional) Mackerel are ready t...

Smoked mackerel fillets with new Ayrshire potatoes and peas Mackerel is one of my favourite eating fish. It is delicious, nutritious and incredibly versatile in terms of the many different ways it can be cooked. Smoking mackerel is a great way of preserving it and adding a whole range of delicious new flavours, not just from the smoke but from the brining solution initially used on the uncooked fillets. I regularly go sea fishing and when I do get a nice bag of summer mackerel, I love to smoke them myself at home. This is a lot easier than you may think, with the results more than justifying the time invested. Me preparing to smoke freshly caught mackerel fillets at home I've written an easy to follow guide on how to smoke mackerel at home but aside from the fresh mackerel, the first thing you will need is a smoker. Smokers come in a huge variety of  forms (both hot and cold smokers) as well as a huge variety of price ranges but you can pick up a real bargain home smoker on your l...