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Quick Fix Smoked Mackerel & Creme Fraiche Jacket Potato with Beetroot and Spring Onion Salad.

Starting a New Years resolution 2 days earlier makes sense when you crave healthy food and exercise just before you know you're about to be relatively unhealthy for a day (or two)...it's almost 2017 people! 

Having got myself back to the gym this week, and work sadly, I wanted a healthy quick fix dinner with some of my favourite ingredients. When I am in doubt about what I could have that is quick, tasty and relatively cheap I go for Boneless Smoked Mackerel Fillets. I decided to be adventurous where I also had a little help from the serving suggestion on the Waitrose Hot Smoked Mackerel Fillets packaging; to combine this with a fluffy jacket potato, creme fraiche and olive oil dressing adding chopped beetroot and spring onions (with a few dashes of sea salt). 

What you need to buy:

• Pack of Boneless Smoked Mackerel Fillets (As suggested I went for the delicious Waitrose Hot Smoked Mackerel Fillets) http://www.waitrose.com/shop/DisplayProductFlyout?productId=324846
• Pot of low fat Creme Fraiche 
• 1 Baking Potato
• Beetroot Chopped Salad
• Spring Onions 

What you will potentially already have in the cupboard:

• Olive Oil
• Sea Salt 
• Butter

I like a no fuss/mess approach to a quick fix dinner which to me rules out pots, pans and baking trays. I did need to use the chopping board for my spring onions but apart from that everything was done on the plate and fork I ate from. 

Firstly wash your baked potato and place on a microwave safe plate, prick with a fork several times all the way around and drizzle with olive out and sprinkle with sea salt. Place in the microwave uncovered for 5/6 minutes. I use this time to put some washing on, tidy, clean etc oh and to chop up some spring onions on the chopping board. Once this is ready open out your potato, spread some butter on the potato and let it melt in. Then spoon your creme fraiche onto the potato and how much  you put on depends on how much you want. I then drizzle some olive oil onto the creme fraiche and add a pinch of salt and use the fork to mix this into the creme fraiche and add over the top the chopped spring onion. Then fork out some nice chunks of beetroot over your jacket potato. Finally take the skin off of two mackerel fillets then break up pieces of Smoked Mackerel to go on top...voila! 

Tasty, cheap, healthy and takes less than 10 minutes to cook/prep! 

Thanks for reading my little abstract 

Andrea