Karrysild

Name: Karrysild
Prep time: 10 min
Total time: 10 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: New Nordic
Ingredients: Mustard, cress, soft-boiled eggs and sliced red onion, to serve; 100 ml crème fraîche or sour cream; 225 g Red Marinated Herring, plus 1–2 tbsp pickling liquid; 2 heaped tbsp mayonnaise; 2 tsp Madras curry powder

Curried Herring

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
10 min

Appears in

Copenhagen Cult Recipes

By Christine Rudolph and Susie Theodorou

Published 2019

About

The Danes have integrated spices such as cinnamon, cloves, black pepper and curry into their cuisine, especially with flavouring and preserving their beloved herring. This particular recipe is from Lise Rudolph, Christine’s grandmother.

Ingredients

2 heaped tbsp mayonnaise
100 ml crème fraîche or sour cream
2

Europe
Denmark
Lunch
Fish course
Pescatarian
Gluten-free
Nordic
Copenhagen

Method

Mix the mayonnaise and crème fraîche together in a small bowl. Add the curry powder and pickling liquid from the red herring. Taste and adjust the seasoning with salt and black pepper or a little more curry powder, if liked. Fold in the herring.

To assemble, spread thinly sliced rye bread with krydderfedt (bacon or pork dripping), then top with the curried herring and a little mustard a