Name: Whitefish Salad
Yield: Serves Four to Six
Ingredients: ½ red, white or yellow onion or 3–5 spring onions (scallions), chopped; ground black pepper; 2 celery sticks, chopped; 1 smoked whitefish, skinned and boned; 45 ml/3 tbsp sour cream or Greek (US strained plain) yogurt; juice of ½–1 lemon; 5–10 ml/1–2 tsp chopped fresh parsley, to garnish; 45 ml/3 tbsp mayonnaise; 1 round lettuce

Preparation info

Serves
Four to Six

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Complete Guide to Traditional Jewish Cooking

By Marlena Spieler

Published 2016

About

Smoked whitefish is one of the glories of the deli. It’s delicious eaten plain, but when made into a salad with mayonnaise and sour cream, it makes a wonderful Sunday brunch or Shabbat lunch. Eat it with bagels, pumpernickel or rye bread and cucumber salad.

Ingredients

1 smoked whitefish, skinned and boned
2 celery sticks, chopped
½ red,

Method

Break the smoked fish into bitesize pieces. In a bowl, combine the chopped celery, onion or spring onion, mayonnaise, and sour cream or yogurt, and add lemon juice to taste.
Fold the fish into the mixture and season with pepper. Arran