Smoked Mackerel Pâté With French Bread & Horseradish

This relaxed starter can be whizzed up in just 15 minutes - and it won't break the bank either

• Cooking Time Prep 15 mins
  
• Skill Level Easy
• Servings Serves 2

Nutrition per serving

• Kcalories

  440

• Protein

  16g

• Carbs

  1g

• Fat

  41g

• Saturates

  17g

• Fibre

  2g

• Sugar

  0g

• Salt

  2.26g

Ingredients

• For the pate
• 25g unsalted butter, melted
• zest ½ lemon
• 160g pack smoked mackerel (split fillets), skinned
• 1 spring onion, roughly chopped
• For the horseradish butter
• 15g unsalted butter, plus extra to serve
• 1 tsp hot horseradish sauce, plus extra to serve
• 1 tsp finely chopped flat-leaf parsley, plus a few leaves
• French bread, to serve

Directions

1. Tip the melted butter, lemon zest, mackerel and spring onion into a food processor and blend until smooth. Spoon into a ramekin and smooth the top.
2. For the topping, melt the 15g butter with the horseradish, then stir in the parsley. Carefully spoon over the pâté to cover it. Press some parsley leaves on top, grind over some black pepper and chill to set the butter. Serve the ramekin of pâté with French bread, butter and extra horseradish sauce.

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