Herring
Used in 3 recipes on RecipeWiki.
Salted herring fillets are the silver, oily fish of the North Sea and Baltic cured in salt, which firms the flesh and gives it a deep, savoury, gently fishy flavour quite unlike fresh herring. This page covers salt herring as it is sold in Russian and Eastern European shops, as fillets in oil or brine. It is layered under beetroot, potato and mayonnaise in Herring Under a Fur Coat, and chopped with apple and onion into Forshmak, a spreadable herring pâté. Very salty fillets can be soaked in milk or cold water for an hour before use. Check for and pull out the fine pin bones with tweezers.
Most often cooked with
Dill
Egg
Butter
Milk
Onion
SugarRecipes with herring
Blini
Thin yeasted pancakes of buckwheat and wheat flour, cooked in a hot pan and served with soured cream, butter or salted fish.
Breakfast
Pescatarian
Russian
Forshmak
Salt herring chopped fine with apple, hard-boiled egg and onion into a spread for dark rye bread.
Jewish
Herring Under a Fur Coat
Layers of salted herring, onion, potato, carrot and beetroot under mayonnaise, left overnight so it sets firm enough to cut.
Fish
Potatoes