Marinated Herrings

Name: Marinated Herrings
Yield: Serves Four to Six
Ingredients: 30 ml/2 tbsp white wine vinegar; 25 ml/1½ tbsp sugar; 10–15 black peppercorns; 2–3 herrings, filleted; 10–15 allspice berries; juice of 1½ lemons; salt; 1 onion, sliced; 3 bay leaves, torn; 1.5 ml/¼ tsp mustard seeds

Preparation info

Serves
Four to Six

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Complete Guide to Traditional Jewish Cooking

By Marlena Spieler

Published 2016

About

This is a classic a Shkenazic dish, sweet-and-sour and lightly spiced. It is delicious for Sunday brunch and is always welcome at a Shabbat midday Kiddush reception. If there is anything you can be sure of at an Ashkenazic gathering, it’s herring.

Ingredients

2–3 herrings, filleted
1 onion, sliced
juice of 1½ lemons

Pescatarian
Gluten-free
Spicy
Brunch

Method

Soak the herrings in cold water for 5 minutes, then drain. Pour over water to cover and soak for 2–3 hours, then drain. Pour over water to cover and leave to soak overnight.
Hold the soaked herrings under cold running water and rinse very well, both inside and out.
Cut each fish into bitesize pieces, then place the pieces in a glass bowl or shallow di