Mackerel Salad w/ Avocado & Cottage Cheese

Step up your salad game with this delicious Mackerel salad!

Step up your salad game with this delicious Mackerel salad!

Normally, I prefer a warm meal for lunch but this salad is so filling and flavourful! Maybe it’s more of a Spring salad but I honestly don’t care about what meal fits better in what season. Eat whatever feels good for your mood and I had this salad two days in a row - that says a lot right. Hope you enjoy it as well!

>>In the mood for more salads while working from home? Then do make this Pearl Couscous w/ Beet Salad (Vegan)! It's creamy, packed with loads of textures and a great sauce to drizzle over it.

Mackerel Salad w/ Avocado & Cottage Cheese

  • Prep: 10 min
  • Total: 10 min

  • Fish

Ingredients

- smoked mackerel (1 piece, seasoned with olive and fresh cracked black pepper)
- ½ an avocado
- 3 tbsp cottage cheese (seasoned with garlic and onion powder and salt & pepper)
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- ½ cucumber (cut into small pieces or half moons)
- ¼ red onion (finely sliced)
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- a good handful of lettuce leaves
- chives/parsley (finely chopped, optional)
- black sesame seeds (optional)
- salt & pepper 

Instructions

  1. Cut your cucumber into small pieces finely slice your red onion. Place them in a bowl together with lettuce leaves and season with 1 tbsp of olive oil and salt & pepper.

  2. In another bowl add 3 tbsp of cottage cheese and season with lemon juicec garlic and onion powder and salt & pepper to taste. Put the cottage cheese in the one half of the avocado and set this aside.

  3. Then add the cucumber, red onion and lettuce leaves on a plate. Place the mackerel on top and put the stuffed avocado on the side. 

  4. Finish the salad with some fresh herbs. I used chives but parsley would work as well and some black sesame seeds.

    TIP:
    - Add fresh sugar snaps or spinach leaves to this salad.

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