Ingredients for 4 servings
- Lisettes are small mackerel caught from May onwards, succulent less fatty and with a finer taste than their older counterparts, they are often caught with a particular technique: fishing "with a machine gun" using lines equipped with numerous hooks that are trailed along the bank.
- Line-caught Lisette with Apricot Confit for 4 people:
- 4 bright lisettes with head removed then opened on the belly, the backbone just pulled and removed from the center.
- 3 Bergeron apricots not too ripe (2 will be cut into very fine dice and 1 into fine slices to confit the lisettes)
- 200 g of samphire sorted then cooked for 20 seconds in boiling water refreshed in ice water and drained.
- "Instant" marinade
- 15 cl of good olive oil
- 1 juice of untreated yellow lemon
- 15 g of ginger cut into tiny dice
- 3 Bergeron apricots cut into tiny slices
- 1 small bunch of chives or green onion tops (I prefer)
- 5 cl of soy sauce
- a hint of wasabi (if you have some)
- fine salt and Espelette pepper
- For seasoning the samphire salad
- 4 cl of rice vinegar (or cider)
- 4 cl of olive oil
- a good turn of the pepper mill
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