Soft Herring Roes on Caper Toasts

Name: Soft Herring Roes on Caper Toasts
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 8 soft herring roes; Plain flour, for dusting roes; Plain flour, for dusting roes; 50 g (2 oz) butter; Salt and pepper; Salt and pepper; Lemon juice; 4 slices of toast, crusts removed; 1 teaspoon shallots, finely chopped; ½ teaspoon capers, chopped

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

New British Classics

By Gary Rhodes

Published 1999

About

Cod’s roe with bacon used to be a popular breakfast dish in the south-west of England and in Ireland, and herring roes were eaten for breakfast and high tea. Here they are briefly fried in butter before serving on hot toast spread with a caper butter – delicious!

Ingredients

8 soft herring roes
Plain flour, for dusting roes
50 g (2 oz

Europe
United Kingdom
Lunch
Supper
Pescatarian
Gluten-free

Method

Season the roes with salt and pepper and lightly flour. Melt a third of the butter and, once bubbling, add the roes. These can now be quickly pan-fried to a golden brown.

Mix the remaining butter with the capers and shallots, season with salt and pepper and spread on the hot toasts. Once cooked, arrange the roes on the toasts. Add a good squeeze of lemon to the butter the roes have been