# Mackerel and Elderflower

A refined dish featuring mackerel with a delicate elderflower sauce and apple slices for freshness.

- Cuisine: British
- Category: Dinner
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 1 mackerel
- 1 elderflower
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 1 tbsp vinegar
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 oil
- 1 apple
- 1 onion
- 1 flower

## Instructions

1. Cut off the tail of the mackerel.
2. Fillet the mackerel.
3. Place the mackerel fillets on a baking sheet.
4. Prepare the elderflower sauce by pouring vinegar, sugar, and elderflower into a saucepan.
5. Stir the elderflower sauce.
6. Separate the egg yolk into a bowl.
7. Whisk the egg yolk.
8. Add oil to the egg yolk and continue whisking until it forms a sauce.
9. Add beetroot to the elderflower sauce.
10. Stir the elderflower and beetroot sauce.
11. Finely chop onion and add it to the sauce.
12. Add some flowers and oil to the sauce.
13. Place the mackerel fillets skin-side down on a hot surface to sear.
14. Arrange drops of the yellow egg yolk sauce on a plate.
15. Place slices of seared mackerel on top of the sauce drops.
16. Add thin slices of green apple between the mackerel pieces.
17. Spoon the elderflower and beetroot sauce with onions and flowers over the mackerel and apple.

## Equipment

- scissors
- knife
- cutting board
- baking sheet
- saucepan
- fork
- whisk
- plate
- tweezers

## Source

- Original video: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DX7M-Azttl6/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/eaafded7-0a03-4a11-adde-e577c3939477
- Extracted: 2026-05-12

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