Tested recipe: lightly s alted mackerel at home

2025 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2025-01-13 07:38

Mackerel is a wonderful fish worthy of respect and love. This moderately fatty marine life is good in any form: smoked, boiled, baked, s alted. How to pickle mackerel at home so that it is both tasty and beautiful? Read the recipe below. Lightly s alted mackerel is tender and much tastier than store bought.

Home Ambassador Mackerel

This method has a little secret. The carcasses do not need to be thawed much: it is enough to be cut with a knife. A slightly different recipe. Mackerel

lightly s alted thanks to this, it is additionally marinated in its own juice, acquiring a special taste. Take:

• a couple of carcasses of frozen mackerel;
• half tbsp sugar;
• one and a half tbsp. s alt (regular medium);
• a dozen black peppercorns;
• heels of medium bay leaves;
• tsp "Vegetta" or similar seasoning with carrots.

So, cooking snacksmackerel slightly s alted. The recipe is simple and won't take long:

1. Slightly defrost and clean the fish, remove the insides, tail and head. Dry with napkins, cut into pieces (up to 1.5 cm thick).
2. Pour sugar, Veghetta, s alt, peppercorns into a bowl, add bay leaf chopped by hand, mix thoroughly.
3. Sprinkle the pieces of fish evenly with the pickling mixture, transfer to a bowl, cover with cling film or lid.
4. Send for a day in the refrigerator.

Slightly s alted mackerel: recipe in brine

An original yet simple recipe. Mackerel lightly s alted becomes

tastes like smoked fish. This effect is achieved by adding smoked prunes. There is a kind of processing prunes before drying. Stock up:

• three carcasses of fish;
• a couple of tablespoons sugar;
• a couple of large bay leaves;
• a dozen of allspice peas;
• 100g prunes;
• a couple of disposable black tea bags;
• 3 full (without a slide) tbsp. s alt.

Start cooking:

1. Prepare the fish, put in a suitable container.
2. Add prunes, peppercorns, bay leaf, broken by hand.
3. Dissolve sugar and s alt in a liter of boiling water, lower the tea bags, let it boil for a couple of minutes, cool under the lid.



4. Pour cold (!) brinemackerel, send "live" for a couple of days in the refrigerator.
5. Get the fish out of the brine, wipe with napkins, grease with vegetable oil. Cut into pieces, decorate with pickled onion rings and serve. Lightly s alted mackerel appetizer (recipe with prunes) always tastes great.

S alted mackerel

Try this easy and quick recipe. Lightly s alted mackerel is prepared in just an hour and a half and always enjoys the same success on the festive table. Prepare the fish: remove the tail, head, cut along the ridge along the back, carefully (the belly must be intact) remove the insides and all the bones. Prepare a pickling mixture from a couple of tbsp. s alt, a couple of chopped bay leaves, a few chopped peppercorns, a quarter of tsp. Sahara. Sprinkle the fish in an even layer, wrap it in a roll, wrap it tightly with parchment, put it on a plate and send it to the freezer for 1.5-3 hours. It turns out fabulously tasty s alted mackerel.