Oily fish is healthy. And smoked mackerel is an ideal alternative for a quick lunch or midweek meal. This yellow rice with smoked mackerel and egg, peas and leek is quick to prepare, super tasty and healthy. Further down in this article, after the recipe, you will find more information about mackerel and its health aspects. But we start as usual with the recipe.
Yellow rice with smoked mackerel
Ingredients
- 150 gram rice
- 300 ml water
- 200 gram smoked mackerel
- 100 gram green peas frozen
- 1 leek
- 2 eggs
- 1 clove garlic
- 2 shallots
- 1 teaspoon turmeric
- 1 teaspoon curry
- 1 teaspoon mustard
- 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
Instructions
- Bring 300 ml of water to a boil and add 150 grams of rice. Let it simmer for 10 minutes until the rice is cooked. Then remove it from the heat.
- Boil the eggs hard in an egg cooker or a pot of water.
- Peel and finely chop the garlic, shallots, and ginger.
- Clean the leek and cut it in half lengthwise. Then cut the leek into thin half rings.
- Heat oil in a large pan. Add the turmeric, garlic, ginger, shallots, mustard, cumin seeds, and curry and fry briefly.
- After a minute, add the leek and frozen peas. Let it cook for about five minutes.
- Finally, add the rice and lemon juice. Mix everything well.
- Remove the skin from the smoked mackerel and cut it into pieces of about two centimeters.
- Serve the yellow rice with the leek and peas in deep plates. Garnish with the smoked mackerel and the hard-boiled eggs.
Nutrition
How to make yellow rice with smoked mackerel?
This simple rice dish is very easy to make and tastes delicious. We will go through the different steps one by one here.
Cooking rice and eggs
Usually we start by cleaning the vegetables, the so.called "mise en place". But in this case we start with the rice and eggs. While they cook, we can prepare the vegetables.
You always cook rice in a ratio of one to two. One amount of rice and two amounts of water. We bring that water to a boil. Once it boils, we add the rice. Then let this simmer for about ten minutes over medium heat. The rice will have absorbed all the water and will be cooked. Keep an eye on it so that the rice does not burn. Now set the rice aside until we add it to the vegetables later.
We boil the eggs hard. This can be done in the egg cooker or in a cooking pot. Once they are ready, we rinse the eggs under cold water. This cools them down quickly and makes them easy to peel. Then cut the eggs into four pieces and set them aside.
Preparing and cooking the vegetables
While the eggs and rice are cooking, we can focus on the vegetables and herbs.
Preparing the vegetables
We remove the skin from the garlic and shallots. Then we cut them into small pieces.
We also remove the skin from the fresh ginger. This gives a bitter taste and disturbs the balance on the plate. Then we also cut the fresh ginger into small pieces. Alternatively, you can also grate the fresh ginger.
And then there is the leek. If necessary, we first clean it so that no more sand sticks to it. Then we halve the leek lengthwise. Then we cut the two half leeks into thin half-moon rings.
Cooking the vegetables
We now take a large pan and heat a tablespoon of oil in it. Then we add the garlic, shallots, and ginger. Fry this for about a minute. In the meantime, add the mustard, cumin seeds, curry, and turmeric. Stir everything regularly.
Then add the leek and frozen peas. Stir everything well and let it simmer over medium heat for about five minutes.
Preparing the smoked mackerel
While the leek and peas are simmering, we can prepare the smoked mackerel. You can simply remove and discard the skin. Then we cut the smoked mackerel in half lengthwise. Next, we cut the half mackerel into bite-sized pieces of one to two centimeters.
The final steps and serving the dish
When the seasoned leek is cooked, add the rice. Mix everything well and give the ingredients time to integrate. The rice will now also turn a nice yellow color. Finish the vegetable dish with a tablespoon of lemon juice and mix everything together again.
Now you can scoop the yellow-green rice with leek and peas into deep plates. Then arrange the smoked mackerel and hard-boiled eggs on your rice dish. And already your yellow rice with smoked mackerel and egg is ready. Moreover, it is not only delicious, but also beautiful to look at. Because the eyes eat too, of course.
What is mackerel?
Most probably you will know that mackerel is a fish. But do you know where it lives and what kind of fish it exactly is? So here you can learn some more background to this healthy fish that we love so much.
Mackerel is a fish that belongs to the order of perch-like fish and is mainly found in the North Sea. Other areas where the fish is abundant include the Irish Sea, the Atlantic Ocean, the Baltic Sea, and even the Mediterranean Sea.
They can grow up to 30 to 50 centimeters long, weigh more than 3 kilograms, and live up to 17 years. Mackerel do not have a swim bladder and therefore swim close to the water surface. They live in schools and feed on plankton, sprats, and small herrings.
Like salmon and tuna, mackerel is a so-called fatty fish with many omega-3 fatty acids. It is generally recommended to eat fatty fish at least once a week. This yellow rice with smoked mackerel and egg is therefore a very good choice.
In the store you will usually find smoked mackerel. And there is a reason for that. Mackerel spoils quickly. That is why mackerel is usually smoked. And just like with salmon, there are two different methods here: cold smoking and hot smoking. With a cold smoking process, fewer harmful substances are produced. The hot smoking process, on the other hand, kills more microorganisms and harmful bacteria.
Sources and background literature:
- Mackerel - Wikipedia.
- Mackerel nutrition facts and health benefits (Very well fit).
- 7 health benefits of eating mackerel (Nature world).
- How to smoke mackerel (The online grill).
- How to smoke mackerel - a guide to dry smoking and wet smoking (Chef's notes).
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Do you also love the typical taste of smoked fish or chicken? Then we have some delicious recipes here that will definitely inspire you:
- Hot smoked salmon with cucumber and apple.
- Smoked mackerel on a leek stew.
- Creamy date snack with smoked mackerel.
- Smoked chicken with avocado.
- Blinis with smoked salmon.
If you speak Dutch, you can find the Dutch version of this recipe on gerechtenweb.blog.
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