Smoked Mackerel Fillets with Pasta

Oh, that's funny....Hubby has just arrived home saying "What's for supper? You haven't blogged!"
Here goes, we try to eat as much fish as we can, often as a weekend breakfast using mackerel fillets or kippers, grilled and served with buttered bread and some orange juice. This time though, I'm using it in a pasta dish with roasted tomatoes, baby spinach leaves and peas.  I've added a courgette too as it needed using up.

Ingredients

1 pack of mackerel fillets, grilled, serves 2

Pasta of your choice, I'm using linguine

Baby spinach leaves

A cup of cooked peas

Cherry tomatoes, halved

1 courgette, thickly sliced

Crushed garlic clove

Extra virgin olive oil 

Salt and pepper

Lemon wedges and shredded basil as garnish. 

Method

Grill the mackerel for 2 minutes on each side, set aside and keep warm.
Cook the pasta as per the pack instructions and drain. Whilst the pasta is cooking place the courgette slices in a shallow pan and cook until almost golden on both sides then add the tomatoes, garlic, peas and finally the spinach leaves.  Cook gently until softened and the spinach leaves are wilted.
Add the vegetables to the pasta, season to taste and dress with olive oil, finally, go all chef like and position the mackerel fillets at a jaunty angle onto the pasta.
Serve garnished with ripped basil leaves and lemon wedges.

The end result