Smoked mackerel pâté crostini

This is a real crowd-pleaser. Creamy smoked mackerel pâté jewelled with succulent pomegranate seeds on crunchy sourdough crostini.
Ingredients
Makes 20
250g smoked mackerel
100g cream cheese
50g sour cream
1/2 bunch of dill
1/2 bunch of chives
2 limes
50g pickled ginger
1 pomegranate
Pinch of caster sugar
1 loaf sourdough bread
Extra virgin olive oil (for drizzling)
Salt and pepper (to taste)
Instructions
- Preheat an oven to 200 degrees Celsius.
- Meanwhile, cut the sourdough into thin slices and use a 3cm circular cutter to cut out little discs.
- Place the discs onto a baking tray, drizzle with extra virgin olive oil and season with salt and pepper.
- Place the discs into the oven until crisp and golden in colour.
- In the meantime, flake the smoked mackerel into a Magimix/food processor, adding in the sour cream, cream cheese, dill, juice and zest of the limes and a pinch of caster sugar.
- Blitz all of the ingredients until incorporated but still with a bit of texture, or you can always blitz until smooth if preferred.
- Season the mix with salt and pepper.
- De-seed the pomegranate, finely chop the chives and slice the pickled ginger into small 2cm strips.
- To assemble, place the mackerel mixture on top of the toasted sourdough. Place some pickled ginger on top along with a few pomegranate seeds and chives.
- Repeat this process until all of the canapés are complete.
This recipe was written by Leiths teacher Ryan Vaughan.
For an inventive vegetarian canapé, take a look at his recipe for Lemon thyme salsify with pistachios.
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