Mackerel beetroot salad is a great quick healthy meal. Rich in healthy oils like Omega-3 and Omega-6, it's packed with essential vitamins and minerals too.
If you’re anything like me, then making a decent, healthy, and filling lunch for the next day to take to work has got to be a quick and simple task.
The last thing I want, especially if I’ve just done an hour at the gym, is to laboriously pour over preparing an evening meal and a complicated lunch too.
That's exactly where this mackerel beetroot salad fits in!
Normally I’m all about preparing lots of different soups at the weekend and freezing them.
It’s easy to take out a couple of soups for the next day in the evening. These will easily de-frost overnight.
I put them in transportable containers in the morning for a packed lunch, ready to be stored in the fridges provided at work.
Sometimes though, as much as I love my soup, and I’m sure you’ll agree with me, soups can be pretty mundane every single day!
That's where this mackerel beetroot salad comes in.
Knowing that I had beetroot left over from the gluten free chocolate and beetroot muffins recipe I headed out to my local supermarket.
A quick hunt through the aisles and I came away with a reduced piece of mackerel and some cheap salad basics.
The result was this excellent heart healthy mackerel beetroot salad. A simple, but also pretty tasty lunch option!
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Mackerel Beetroot Salad Recipe
Enjoy this healthy and delicious mackerel beetroot salad as a packed lunch or as an excellent light dinner option.
I’d love to hear what you think of my recipe in the comments below and please do rate my recipe 5* if you like it! 🙂
Mackerel Beetroot Salad Recipe
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Ingredients
For the salad
- 250 g new salad potatoes cut into bite size chunks
- 140 g smoked mackerel strips skinned and chopped into 2cm pieces
- 100 g chopped mixed salad leaves
- 100 g cooked beetroot chopped
- 10 g pumpkin seeds
For the dressing
- 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
- 1 teaspoon white wine vinegar
- ½ teaspoon Dijon mustard
- Salt and pepper to season
Instructions
- Cook the potatoes, for 20 – 25 minutes. Drain and cool.
- Whilst the potatoes are cooking, chop and prepare the rest of the salad ingredients and place in a bowl.
- Make the dressing by placing all the dressing ingredients into a jar and shaking well together.
- Add the cooked, cooled potatoes to the bowl of salad, top with the dressing and combine well.
- Divide between 2 plates / lunchboxes.
Susie @ SuzLyfe
Teehee, have fun this weekend! BTW I'm currently reading a book about a nurse in the Hebrides and I get all excited when they mention Glasgow and suck. Maybe you'll have a cameo. I'm a bit shopper of my own pantry. Obviously, you can't do that with fresh produce, but why not have a little series of beet recipes? That sounds lovely! Mackerel is not popular in the US, but I had exposure to it when i was in Jamaica--they use it all the time there!
neil@neilshealthymeals.com
Hi Susie, you would love the Hebrides, all windswept and quiet! Perfect peace and quiet for chilling out and relaxing. But then again, as we've spoken about before, you would love Glasgow because of all it's architecture! 😀
A series of beet recipes sounds like a fun idea! Mackerel would be my fish of choice with this recipe, but it would work equally well with cooked smoked salmon too. Sometimes I forget just how lucky we are, in our island here, to have sea all around us with fishies that perhaps aren't available in other places. 🙂
neil@neilshealthymeals.com
Thanks Liz, it's just so nice to open up your lunch box and see something as vibrant as this ready to be eaten! 🙂
Shashi at RunninSrilankan
Neil - you know I love beets - so I am so loving this salad - and it has practically every food group covered! Cannot wait to hear what y'all ate and drank at The Albany!
neil@neilshealthymeals.com
Thank you very much Shashi. Keep your fingers crossed that the rain might go off for us! 🙂