Simple summer recipe: mackerel salad

The previous month had been absurdly hot in the Netherlands for that time of the year. It was as hot as it would normally be mid-August. Today, the temperature has luckily become pleasant again, around 17-20 degrees. It isn't that hard anymore to sit behind my computer to work on my blog. I will start with this simple mackerel salad recipe. The heat has inspired me to create more different kinds of salads recently, as I just don't have much of an appetite, when it is suffocatingly hot. Munching on some refreshing and juicy salad leaves cools me down.

I don't know if the Albert Heijn supermarket normally sells mackerel or that it is a special, summer limited, BBQ product, but it was the first time that I saw this. It was also a lot cheaper than fresh salmon (which has become really expensive!), so I gave it a try.  

What you need

- 200 g of mackerel fillet

- a bag of mixed lettuce and shredded yellow carrot

- a handful of cherry tomatoes

- soy sauce

- balsamic vinegar 

- sesame oil

How to make it

- Pan fry the mackerel fillet with a little bit of oil, until it is cooked and before you take them out of the pan, drizzle a little bit soy sauce over them.
- Set the fish aside to cool a little bit down.
- Wash and cut the lettuce and yellow carrot. (In my case: I bought it ready-made at the Albert Heijn supermarket)
- Wash the cherry tomatoes and put them in a large bowl, together with the rest of the salad.
- Make a salad dressing with a bit of soy sauce, balsamic vinegar, and sesame oil. Flavor it to your liking and add it to the salad.
- Serve one mackerel fillet with some of the salad on the side.