Recipe - Wild Garlic Wrapped Mackerel Fillets With Red Pepper Marmal

2 Fine mackerel; filleted
A couple of handfuls of wild
garlic
; leaves
Salt and pepper
4 Lemon wedges to serve

FOR THE RED PEPPER MARMALADE
15 g Butter
1 tablespoon Sunflower oil
2 Red peppers; deseeded and
cut
; into thin strips
1 Onion; halved and thinly
; cut or sliced up
One half Star anise
1 Dried bird's eye chilli
2 tablespoon Caster sugar
1 tablespoon Red wine vinegar

1 The marmalade can be made in advance and reheated. Melt the oil and
butter in a heavy pan over a low heat. Add the peppers, onion, star anise
and chilli.

2 Stir to coat lightly in fat, cover and leave to sweat for 25 minutes,
stirring once or twice until both the onion and pepper are limp and
tangled. Remove the chilli and discard, add the sugar, vinegar and a little
salt.

3 Stir, cover again and cook for 78 minutes, stirring once. Taste and
adjust the seasoning, and reheat gently when required. Cut the mackerel
fillets in half, slicing on either side of the central line, so that the
row of fine bones can just be thrown straight out.

4 Season with salt and pepper. Bring a pan of water to the boil and drop a
handful of garlic leaves into it.

5 Scoop out swiftly after 810 seconds and lay on kitchen paper or a clean
tea towel to sop up the excess water. One by one, wrap the garlic leaves
around the long pieces of mackerel, enclosing entirely. Blanch a second
handful of leaves once the first have been used.

6 Lay the fillets in the steamer basket over boiling water, making sure the
water doesn't bubble over them, cover tightly and steam for five minutes.

7 To serve, reheat the pepper marmalade and either spread out in a warm
serving dish, or divide between warmed serving plates, mounding it up in
the centre.

8 Lay the mackerel and garlic leaves on top of the marmalade, perch the
lemon wedges on top of that and serve immediately.

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Recipe by: Sophie Grigson

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