Charlie Balch

Dinner Parties Mackerel with rhubarb and sorrel sauce recipe

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Date Published:
19/12/2007

Try your hand at Charlie Balch's mackerel recipe from the Cardiff series of Come Dine With Me.

Serves 5

Ingredients

  • 4 mackerel
  • 500g rhubarb cut into 25mm pieces
  • 2 tbsp caster sugar
  • ¼ pint melted butter
  • ½ tsp grated ginger
  • lemon rind lengths taken off with a spud peeler
  • grated nutmeg
  • a big mug of chopped sorrel

Method: How to make mackerel with rhubarb and sorrel sauce

1. Boil the rhubarb with a dash of water until soft. Push through a sieve.

2. Stir in melted butter and leave simmering with the sugar, ginger lemon and nutmeg. After 15 minutes, add the sorrel then once that it starts to break up, it’s ready. Meanwhile pan fry the mackerel in olive oil until cooked. Remove lemon rind from sauce and serve with mackerel fillets.

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