Herrings with Potato à la Suédoise

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    Hungry Loftuses
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Around the World in 80 Dishes: Classic Recipes from the World's Favourite Chefs

By David Loftus

Published 2012

  • About

The cold countries of the North Atlantic love their herrings, as we once did. They were barrel-salted, smoked, rollmopped, red-herringed and scoffed in their millions in days of old. This is just one way to enjoy these abundant little blighters.

Ingredients

  • 2 large red onions, sliced into thin rings
  • 300g/11oz herring fillets

Method

A day before eating, start marinating the herrings. Peel the onions and slice into thin rings. Layer the herrings and sliced onions in a dish and pour in enough oil to cover. Cover the dish with clingfilm and refrigerate for 24 hours.

The following day, wash the potatoes and cook them, still in their skins, in boiling salted water until tender. Strain and set aside to cool down a bit wh