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 Mackerel, pea & pesto jackets

Mackerel, pea & pesto jackets

For a creative take on a jacket potato, this easy-to-prepare dinner is both filling and flavoursome.

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  • Serves2
  • CourseMain meal
  • Prepare10 mins
  • Cook1 hr
  • Total time1 hr 10 mins

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Ingredients

  • 2 essential Waitrose baking potatoes
  • 200g essential Waitrose Petits Pois
  • 4 essential Waitrose salad onions, thinly sliced
  • 30g essential Waitrose Lighter Soft Cheese
  • 2 tbsp green pesto
  • Essential Waitrose Smoked Mackerel Fillets, flaked

Method

  1. Prick the potatoes and bake in an oven preheated to 200ºC, gas mark 6 for 1 hour or microwave for 8–10 minutes until tender.

  2. Meanwhile, cook the peas in a large pan of boiling water for 2 minutes then add the salad onions and drain immediately.

  3. Halve the jackets and scoop out the potato to leave a 5mm-thick shell. Roughly mash together the potato, soft cheese and pesto. Gently stir in the peas, salad onions and the mackerel.

  4. Spoon the filling back into the potato skins and serve immediately.

Nutritional

Typical values per serving when made using specific products in recipe

Energy

2,362kJ/ 561kcals

Fat

19.4g

Saturated Fat

4.2g

Carbohydrates

68.7g

Sugars

6g

Fibre

10.6g

Protein

28g

Salt

0.9g

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