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Mackerel with cheese baked in the oven

Oven-Baked Mackerel with Cheese

Appetizing, budget-friendly, made from everyday ingredients — for dinner! Oven-baked mackerel with cheese is great for any gathering. It comes out very tender, with a crispy crust. The mackerel bakes together with the potatoes, which saves a lot of time and dishes.

Lyalich

Recipe author

Composition / ingredients

Servings:

Mackerel

Potatoes

Hard cheese

Processed cheese

Lemons

0.33

Garlic

Sour cream

Vegetable oil

Ground black pepper

Salt

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 30 % 9 g

Fats 37 % 11 g

Carbohydrates 33 % 10 g

154 kcal

GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Cooking method

Step 1:

How do you bake mackerel with cheese in the oven? Gather the ingredients. Use the freshest mackerel, with no damage or off smells. Fresh fish has firm flesh, clear (not cloudy) eyes, and pink gills. If that's not the case, it's better to pass on the fish. Choose good-quality cheese with no vegetable-fat additives.
Step 2:

Prepare the potatoes. Wash them well, peel them, and cut them into wedges. If you don't like that cut, you can cube them or slice them into rounds.
Step 3:

Put the potatoes in a pot, cover them with water, and set it over the heat. Salt the water and bring it to a boil, then cook the potatoes over medium heat for 7–10 minutes, until half done. Take them off the heat and drain the water completely. This way the potatoes will finish baking at the same time as the fish.
Step 4:

Wash the mackerel and cut off the head and tail. Gut it and cut it into fillets. How do you properly fillet a whole fish? Remove the tail, head, and fins. Cut along the backbone down to the spine. Turn it on its side. With a sharp knife, slice the flesh away from the backbone. Flip the fish over and cut the fillet from the other side. Clean the inside, removing the black membrane, since it's bitter and will spoil the flavor.
Step 5:

Rinse the fillets and pat them dry with a paper towel, then season with salt and pepper. I just use freshly ground black pepper, but you can use other spices. Drizzle the fish with lemon juice and put it in the fridge for 30 minutes to marinate.
Step 6:

Grate the processed cheese on a fine grater. To make it grate more easily, freeze it a little first. Add grated garlic to the cheese and mix.
Step 7:

Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C). Pour the vegetable oil into a baking dish to grease it, and lay one mackerel half skin-side down.
Step 8:

Arrange the cooked potato wedges around the fillet.
Step 9:

Put the cheese filling on the first mackerel half and spread it over the entire surface.
Step 10:

Cover the cheese with the second mackerel half and press down gently.
Step 11:

Brush the top of the mackerel and potatoes with sour cream and pepper everything on top.
Step 12:

Put the dish of fish and potatoes in the hot oven and bake for 20 minutes. Then take the dish out of the oven and sprinkle it with the finely grated hard cheese.
Step 13:

Put the dish back in the oven and bake for another 10–15 minutes, until the crust is as you like it.
Step 14:

Take the finished mackerel out of the oven, transfer it to a plate along with the potatoes, and serve. Enjoy!

You can make this with not just mackerel, but any other fish. You can add herbs to the cheese filling — parsley and finely chopped onion work best.
Any cheese works for this dish — hard, semi-hard, or soft like mozzarella. The main thing is that it's tasty, good quality, free of milk-fat substitutes, and melts well.
Keep in mind that everyone's oven is different. The temperature and cooking time may differ from what's given in the recipe. To make any baked dish a success, check out the helpful tips on how ovens behave!
Root vegetables are best washed with a brush or a stiff sponge under running water.