Soft Herring Roes with Peas

Preparation info
  • 4

    servings
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Paupers Cookbook

By Jocasta Innes

Published 2014

  • About

This is an excellent supper dish with baked or boiled potatoes; it is also good as a starter on toast or even for a sumptuous breakfast.

Ingredients

  • 225 g (8 oz) shelled fresh or frozen peas
  • 50 g (

Method

Blanch the frozen peas in boiling salted water, or if you are using fresh peas boil them until they are barely cooked. ‘Refresh’ them under gently flowing cold water, drain and set aside.

Melt the butter with the garlic in a heavy-based frying pan until it is hot but not burned. Add the herring roes, a few at a time. (There is no need to remove the first roes from the pan, just add them