Mackerel is my absolute favourite fish and love it cooked in any ways. The best method of cooking is grill after season with salt. ‘Tatsuta-age’ is also a very nice. And the Number 3 is this ‘Miso-ni’, simmer in sweet miso sauce. You got to serve this dish with freshly cooked rice.

Makes

4 Servings

Ingredients

4 fillets Mackerel *about 500g
1 thumb size piece Ginger *sliced into fine strips
4 thick Spring Onion *lighter colour parts
1/2 cup Water
1/4 cup Sake (Rice Wine)
3 tablespoons White Miso AND/OR Red Miso
2 tablespoons Sugar

Method
  1. Remove bones from fillets of Mackerel. Cut white and lighter colour parts of Spring Onions 5cm in length.
  2. Combine Water, Sake, Miso, Sugar and Ginger in a frying pan, and bring to the boil. Place Mackerel fillets, skin side up, and Spring Onion, cover with a sheet of baking paper, and simmer for ten minutes.
  3. Remove the baking paper and let the sauce thickens.
  4. Serve with freshly cooked rice.