Articles & Recipes

Just the ticket for warmer weather, this simple, healthy salad makes a perfect light meal for two. Serves 2.

Eating seasonally doesn’t mean limiting your diet to a few dull recipes, as this delicious dish attests. Mackerel and new potatoes are plentiful in the UK in spring; they work beautifully together in this light but satisfying salad.

This Ashburton Cookery School's dish features freshly caught local Mackerel, ​ which is very rich in beneficial omega-3 fatty acids. It also features a delicious mackerel tartare sauce!

Summer evenings are perfect for laid-back beach barbecues, and fresh Mackerel is an ideal candidate for cooking over charcoal, as the heat renders its rich flesh deliciously moist. Here’s a simple recipe for barbecuing a whole fish (allow one Mackerel per person).

The UK Mackerel season begins in July, when large shoals of this silvery blue-striped fish return to shallower waters off the Devon and Cornwall coast to spawn. Here’s our simple recipe for barbecuing a whole fish.