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Smoked Mackerel Pâté with Potato Latkes

A creamy horseradish and lemon pate of flaked smoked mackerel served with crisp shredded potato latkes, a sharp gherkin and cucumber pickle salad and lemon wedges.

  • YieldServes 4
  • Hands-on27 min
  • Total27 min
  • Difficulty

Ingredients

  • 100 gcream cheese
  • 2 tbspcreamed horseradish
  • 2smoked mackerel fillets, skinned
  • 1lemon, zested and juiced
  • 1 piecefresh horseradish, 2.5 cm, to grateoptional
  • 1lemon, cut into wedges, to serve

For the latkes

  • 500 gpotatoes, about 2 large
  • 1banana shallot
  • 1egg
  • 1 tbspplain flour, heaped
  • 1 pinchground caraway seeds
  • 1 pinchwhite pepper
  • 250 mlvegetable oil, for frying
  • to tastesea salt and freshly ground black pepper

For the pickle salad

  • 4gherkins, plus a spoonful of the pickling liquid
  • ⅓cucumber
  • ½banana shallot
  • 1 tbspdill, roughly chopped

Diet

  • Pescatarian

Contains

  • Gluten
  • Dairy
  • Egg
  • Fish
  • Mustard
  • Sulfites
  • Birds' eggs (any)
  • Mackerel
  • Wheat
  • Citrus fruits (any)
  • Lemon
  • Nightshades (any)
  • Potato (white)
  • Onion family (any)
  • Garlic
  • Shallot
  • Cabbage family (any)
  • Horseradish
  • Cucumber
  • Dill
  • Black and white pepper
  • Caraway
  • Histamine (aged and fermented foods)

Taste

  • Heat
  • Sour / bright
  • Salty
  • Umami / savory
  • Richness / fat
  • Smoke
  • Herbal / fresh
  • Aromatic spice

Texture

  • Crisp
  • Creamy

Equipment

  • Stovetop

Season

  • Any season

Occasion

  • Entertaining

Effort

  • 20–45 min active
  • Under 30 min total
  • Difficulty 2
  • Make-ahead friendly

Nutrition

  • Calories: moderate
  • Protein: moderate
  • Carbs: moderate
  • Fat: moderate
  • Fiber: moderate
  • Sodium: moderate

Budget

  • Budget: moderate

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