Braised Herrings with Potatoes and Apple

Name: Braised Herrings with Potatoes and Apple
Ingredients: 450 g (1 lb) herring fillets; 75 g (3 oz) butter, softened; 2 tablespoons prepared mustard (optional); salt and black pepper; salt and black pepper; 1 kg (2 lb) potatoes, peeled and thinly sliced; 2 large, firm apples, peeled, cored and thinly sliced; 2 onions, thinly sliced; 300 ml (½ pint) cider or water; 300 ml (½ pint) cider or water

Preparation info

5
servings

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Paupers Cookbook

By Jocasta Innes

Published 2014

About

Ingredients

450 g (1 lb) herring fillets
75 g (3

Fish course
Pescatarian
Gluten-free

Method

Lay the herring fillets skin side down and spread them with 65 g (2½ oz) of the butter and the mustard, if using. Season with black pepper and a little salt and roll them up, skin side out.

Butter a fairly deep ovenproof dish (earthenware would be ideal) and put in half the potato slices, then one of the sliced apples and one of the onions. Lay the herring rolls on top, and cover them w