Mackerel in Brine

Author: Robin Status: published license cc-by-sa tags: makreel, Brine, mackerel, Pekelbad, 0   Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

Soak the cleaned/gutted mackerel for 45 minutes in a mixture of:

500 ml water
90 gram salt
18 gram brown sugar
1 T lemon juice
2 cloves of garlic
1/2 onion

Just heat a little bit of water to dissolve the salt & sugar. Then add the rest of the ingredients. Soak the fish in a cold/cool brine.

I tried to smoke mackerel before, but the results weren't that good.
I hoped it was because I was always forgetting to brine it first.
This time I didn't forget. And I think it made a difference.

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