Grilled mackerel, grapefruit and pesto freekeh salad recipe | delicious. magazine

Grilled mackerel, grapefruit and pesto freekeh salad recipe | delicious. magazine

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Grilled mackerel with crisp grapefruit and nutty freekeh salad, topped with fresh pesto—crispy, citrusy, and flavorful. Serves 4, easy to prepare.

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Ingredients

  • Olive oil for frying and drizzling
  • 1 red onion, finely chopped
  • 1 tbsp balsamic vinegar
  • 200g freekeh
  • 500ml chicken stock
  • Squeeze lemon juice
  • 8 skin-on mackerel fillets, pin boned (small bones removed with kitchen tweezers/pliers)
  • 3 large pink grapefruit, segmented and juice reserved (for the pesto)
  • 100g young leaf spinach
  • 25g fresh flatleaf parsley, chopped
  • For the pesto
  • 100g pine nuts, lightly toasted for 5 minutes in a dry frying pan
  • 50g basil
  • 50g fresh flatleaf parsley
  • 120ml extra-virgin olive oil
  • 50g parmesan, coarsely grated
  • Reserved juice from the segmented grapefruit (above)

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