Fish and Seafood Recipes - Mackerel with Olives and Tomatoes Recipe

Ingredients

Serve 4

• 4 x 375 g/12 oz mackerel, cleaned and gutted

• 2 tablespoons plain flour

• 4 tablespoons olive oil

• 1 garlic clove, crushed

• 3 anchovy fillets

• 250 g/8 oz canned plum tomatoes, drained and chopped

• 24 pitted black olives, halved

• 150 ml/1/4 pint Fish Stock

• 1 tablespoon chopped parsley

• salt and pepper

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Method:

1. Lightly flour the mackerel. Heat the oil in a large pan. Add the garlic and anchovies and cook over a medium heat until the garlic is lightly browned.

2. Add the fish and cook for a few minutes, turning once. Add the tomatoes and olives.

3. Continue to cook, adding fish stock from time to time, for about 30 minutes, until the fish is cooked and the sauce well thickened.

4. Season to taste with salt and pepper and sprinkle with parsley just before the end of the cooking time.

5. Serve the fish with the sauce poured over it. This dish is delicious served with a country bread.