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Barbecued Mackerel with Chutney on Toast

This BBQed Mackerel with Chutney on Toast is a fabulously fast and tasty dish. The chutney is made with apple, pear, tomato, ginger, shallot, garlic, rosemary, cumin, chilli powder, star anise, brown sugar and two types of vinegar!

Ingreadient :
    • 3 mackerel, gutted and scaled and the backbone removed
    • Sea salt
    • Spray bottle filled with 1 part white wine vinegar, 5 parts olive oil

    Chutney

    • 1 Bramley apple, grated
    • 1 pear, grated
    • 1 large tomato, grated
    • 1×5 cm fresh ginger, grated
    • ½ shallot, peeled and diced
    • 1 cloves garlic, grated
    • Few sprigs of rosemary
    • 1 tsp ground cumin
    • 1 tsp chilli powder
    • 2 star anise
    • 100g brown sugar
    • 50ml white wine vinegar
    • Splash of sherry vinegar 
    • 2 slices charred bread
    • Drizzle of olive oil
    • Salt and pepper
Direction :
    1. Heat a BBQ until hot and the coals are white.
    2. Pop the sugar in a pan on the BBQ and heat until caramelised. Add all  the rest of the chutney ingredients into a pan, bring to the boil and then simmer for 5 minutes.
    3. Pop the charred bread on a baking tray, drizzle in olive oil then char on the BBQ.
    4. Place the mackerel onto a BBQ rack, spray with the oil / vinegar mix then season and grill for 2 minutes.
    5. To serve, pop onto a plate with a big spoonful of the chutney and  sit the toast on the side.