Marinated Herring

Name: Marinated Herring
Ingredients: 8 salted herring fillets; 8 peppercorns, crushed; 7.5 ml/1½ tsp fennel seeds, crushed; 7.5 ml/1½ tsp juniper berries, lightly crushed; 1 red onion, finely sliced; 200 ml/7 fl oz/scant 1 cup white wine vinegar; 115 g/4 oz/⅔ cup caster (superfine) sugar

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Food and Cooking of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania

By Silvena Johan Lauta

Published 2009

About

In the Baltic they say there as many recipes for marinated herring as there are trees in the woods. This is a particular favourite flavoured with the warm tastes of fennel and juniper. It is perfect chopped in salads, as a topping on a blini, as a filling for a sandwich, or simply as a quick snack.

Ingredients

8 salted herring fillets
8 peppercorns, crushed
7.5 ml/1½

Method

You need to remove as much salt from the herrings as possible. To do this, put them in a colander and run them under cold running water for 2 minutes, then put them into a bowl. Cover with cold water and leave to soak for 4 hours. Drain in a colander and rinse thoroughly again.

Per portion Energy 129kcal/544kJ; Protein 8.4g; Carbohydrate 11.5g, of which sugars 11.5g; Fat 5.6g, of which saturates 0g; Cholesterol 21mg; Calcium 10mg; Fibre 0g; Sodium 415mg.