The healthy option – paté number 3

If you fancy a fish alternative then paté number 3 is for you – healthy and virtuous.

Smoked Mackerel Paté

250g smoked mackerel

250g quark (it's a soft cheese made from skimmed milk

– not nice on its own but great as a low fat product for healthy pate!)

Glug of lemon juice

Black pepper

Two tsps of creamed horseradish

To garnish – parsley, finely diced

sweet onion or finely chopped capers

Remove the skin from the mackerel, flake it and pop into your food processor. Add the quark and blitz with the mackerel, then add the lemon juice, black pepper and horseradish, blitz again. You can gauge the consistency of the paté to your personal taste – but it needs to be fairly stiff for piping.

Fridge until you're ready to pipe - then garnish with a little dried parsley, or sweet onion or chopped capers.

Any leftovers can be served with anything you like, toasted bread, rice cakes or add to warmed pitta slit, with salad. Add to cooked pasta, hot or cold – perfect for lunch on the run!

If you can't get hold of quark you can use cottage cheese - low fat of course.

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