BBC Food - Recipes - Soused mackerel with a carrots, fennel, orange and crispy smoked eel

Ingredients

• 4 mackerel , gutted
• salt , to season
• 150ml/5fl oz white wine vinegar
• 200ml/7fl oz white wine
• ½ tsp black pepper corns
• 2 star anise
• ½ tsp coriander seeds
• 1 orange , zest and juice
• pinch saffron
• 80g/2¾oz caster sugar
• 2 fennel bulbs, finely sliced
• 2 carrots , thinly sliced length ways
• 2 banana shallots , sliced into rings
• sprig fresh coriander
• coriander cress
• amaranth cress
• 1 orange , zest peeled and finely sliced into thin strips
• 200g/7oz caster sugar
• 200ml/7fl oz white wine vinegar
• 2 smoked eel fillets
• 50g/2oz plain flour
• 1 free-range egg
• 75g/3oz panko breadcrumbs