Smoked Mackerel Pâté is super tasty and healthy and great as a spread or a dip! Made with fresh smoked mackerel, cream cheese, horseradish sauce and lemon juice, you’ll be making this again and again!
I’m always trying to make sure my family gets a weekly dose or two of oily fish as they are said to help protect against cardiovascular disease, prostate cancer, age-related vision loss and dementia.
Oily fish are a good source of vitamin D, protein, some B vitamins and selenium. They’re also a rich source of omega-3, a type of fat good for our health. So when I saw a packet of smoked mackerel on my last shopping trip I got the urge to make some smoked mackerel pâté.
We had our pâté with some wholemeal pittas and cucumber but it would also be great served as a dip with crudités, bread sticks or my Chia & Sesame Seed Crackers.
Chia & Sesame Cracker would be great with Smoked Mackerel Pate!
For more recipe inspiration using smoked mackerel check out these recipes:
- Creamy Leek, Spinach & Smoked Mackerel Savoury Crumble
- Easy Smoked Mackerel Fish Cakes
- Smoked Mackerel, Broccoli and Plantain Stirfry
- Smoked Mackerel Kedgeree
- Mackerel Salad with Beetroot, Apple & Walnut
- Warm Couscous, Roast Potato & Smoked Mackerel Salad
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Smoked Mackerel Pâté
Ingredients
- 200 g smoked mackerel fillets skin removed
- 90 g cream cheese half a small tub
- 1/2 lemon, juiced
- 2 tsp creamed horseradish sauce
- freshly ground pepper
Instructions
- Break up the mackerel fillets and place them and all the other ingredients into a blender and whizz until evenly mixed. (I use my stick blender and beaker).
- Serve as a filling for pittas, sandwiches etc or as a dip.
Phil Randall
Smoked mackerel pate turned out great at Lobster party, will make again
PMR
Camilla
Fabulous Phil, glad you enjoyed it:-)
olivia kirby
I really love smoked fish, love pates!
Martina Evans
Smoked mackerel pate is such a great idea. Thank you for sharing!
Lisa Williams
this looks fab I have always wondered about making a homemade pate thank you for the recipes
Camilla
Thanks Lisa, this is like no pate you’ll have ever tasted, far better than anything you can buy:-)
Jacqueline Roberts
Love pate never tried mackerel pate
Camilla
Oh you have to try this:-)
John Williams
Sounds fresh.
Ursula Hunt
Great for the picnic recipe file
Camilla
Great Ursula:-)
Maya Russell
I have never tried mackerel pate. I think a freshly made one is the way to go.
tiggerific1973
I love pate but have never tried a fish one. I must have a go soon x
Ursula Hunt
Love pate on toast
DANIELLE VEDMORE
Yum yum! One of my faves!
Ursula Hunt
great and easy pate recipe
Tara Watkins
I love pate! Thank you for the recipe
Emily Leary
Sounds easy and tasty. Nice clear, bright photos too 🙂
Camilla
Thanks Emily:-)
Karen
A favourite pate of mine too Camilla and yours looks amazing!
Camilla
Aaw thanks Karen;-)
Claire @foodiequine
I LOVE smoked Mackere! Had a pack of gorgeous oak smoked fillets last week and was debating making pate but went for fishcakes instead. next time!
Camilla
I bet they were good Claire:-)
North East Family Fun
My hubby would love this! I recently made trout pate and it wasn’t as hard as I thought!
Camilla
That sounds good too:-)
Wendy
That sounds delicious – I’m always on the lookout for new sandwich ideas, and that sounds ideal! Love mackerel.
Camilla
Thanks, yes it’s easy to get into a groove with sandwich fillings!
Dannii @ Hungry Healthy Happy
Getting enough oily fish is so important. I love how easy this is to put together.
Camilla
Yes, it’s nice to have some simple recipes that turn something plain into something a bit different and more exciting:-)
chantelle hazelden
I love pate, I could eat it every day. Love this recipe seems very simple to make, thanks for sharing x
Camilla
Thanks Chantelle:-)
nazima
What a clever idea- I don’t eat much mackerel but making it into a pate to have in sandwiches is a good way to benefit from all those veggies!
Camilla
Thanks Nazima;-)
Jeanne Horak-Druiff
Easy smoked mackerel paté is a party standby here at Cooksister HQ too! I also add a few drops of tabasco instead of the horseradish 🙂
Camilla
Ooh I’ll have to try that another time Jeanne:-)
All That I'm Eating
I love smoked mackerel and a classic dip with some nice bread (or sticks!) to dunk sounds perfect.
Camilla
Thanks, hope you get to try this recipe out:-)
Kavey
I love smoked fish pates! Creme fraiche or yoghurt are my favourite bases. And then it’s just a case of ringing the changes with different additions. So good!
Camilla
I’ve never tried with yogurt so might give that a whirl:-)
Angela
Oh I do love mackerel pate. We haven’t had it in a while so thanks for the reminder .
Camilla
Glad to have reminded you Angela:-)
Margot @ Coffee & Vanilla
Lovely & healthy recipe, smoked mackerel pate is such a s good idea. Thank you for sharing this and linking to my recipe as well.
Camilla
Thank you Margot and a pleasure as always;-)
Janice
Great minds think alike Camilla, I posted Smoked Mackerel Pate at the weekend. Always a lovely tasty option, yours looks very good. Thanks for including my Smoked Mackerel Kedgeree in your post.
Camilla
Janice, I saw that you had a purposefully didn’t visit the post as I’d already planned to do mine so didn’t want to be subconsciously influenced in any way! Can now go and visit LOL:-)
Bintu @ Recipes From A Pantry
We are huge fans of smoked mackerel pates (we use yoghurt) and make lots of lunch sandwiches with it.
Camilla
I’d over bought on the cream cheese front as it was on offer so it was a good opportunity to use some up LOL. Yogurt sounds like a great idea too:-)
Fuss Free Helen
Nothing like simply smoked mackerel pate. It is a regular in this house too.
Lovely photos too – the new camera is making a difference!
Camilla
Thanks Helen, yes I love what my new camera can do with the depth of field business:-)