Name: Easy smoked mackerel pâté
Prep time: 15 min
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 25g unsalted butter melted; zest ½ lemon; 160g pack smoked mackerel (split fillets), skinned; 1 spring onion roughly chopped; 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

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

Method

step 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.
step 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.