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title: 'Mackerel baked in foil'
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markdown: 'https://recipes.spfinch.com/recipes/mackerel-baked-in-foil.md'
date: '2008-09-30'
description: 'Good Food Magazine Prep < 30 mins Cook 25 mins Serves 2 Ingredients 2 whole mackerel 1 lemon 4 fresh rosemary sprigs 2 garlic cloves sliced 1 small red onion thinly sliced 4 tbsp cider or apple juice boiled potatoes roughly chopped parsley to serve salt and freshly ground black pepper Method P…'
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# Mackerel baked in foil

## Mackerel baked in foil

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Good Food Magazine

Prep **< 30 mins**
Cook **25 mins**
Serves **2**

Ingredients

**2 whole mackerel
1 lemon
4 fresh rosemary sprigs
2 garlic cloves** sliced
**1 small red onion** thinly sliced
**4 tbsp cider or apple juice
boiled potatoes
roughly chopped parsley** to serve
**salt and freshly ground black pepper**

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas 6 or fan oven 180C/350F/Gas 4 from cold.
2. Put each fish on a large square of tin foil or baking paper on a baking sheet. Season the fish inside and out with salt and pepper.
3. Slice the lemon, then cut each slice in half. Tuck the lemon slices inside each fish with a couple of rosemary sprigs and a few garlic slices.
4. Scatter over the onion and pour 2 tbsp of cider or apple juice over each fish.
5. Wrap the tin foil or baking paper loosely around each fish to make a parcel, and bake for 25 minutes.
6. Serve with boiled potatoes sprinkled with parsley.

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