Herrings with Spring Onion and Bacon Potato Cakes

Name: Herrings with Spring Onion and Bacon Potato Cakes
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 1 celery stick, chopped; 1 carrot, chopped; 8 herring fillets; 1 rasher of bacon, chopped; 4 Spring Onion Potato Cakes with bacon; 50–85 ml (2–3 fl oz) (double) cream; Olive oil or unsalted butter; 300 ml (10 fl oz) Fish Stock; A few tarragon leaves; 2 glasses white wine; 50 g (2 oz) unsalted butter; 1–3 teaspoons grain mustard; 1 shallot, chopped

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

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By Gary Rhodes

Published 1995

About

These herring fillets are grilled and arranged on top of potato cakes. They can then be served with a wedge of lemon or with a mustard cream sauce.

Ingredients

8 herring fillets
Olive oil or unsalted butter
4 Spring Onion Potato Cakes with bacon

Main course
Spring
Gluten-free

Method

Melt 15 g (½ oz) of butter and cook the vegetables, bacon and tarragon without colouring until they soften. Add the white wine and boil to reduce until almost dry. Add the stock and boil to reduce by