Name: Potato and Herring Bake (Картофель с селёдкой)
Yield: 4 Servings
Cuisine: Russia
Ingredients: ½ cup grated Parmesan cheese; 4 slices of bacon; 4 medium potatoes; 1 large onion, sliced; Butter; freshly ground black pepper; 1 salt herring (about ¾ pound); Milk

Preparation info

4
Servings

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

A Taste of Russia

By Darra Goldstein

Published 1983

About

The Baltic Sea has been so thoroughly fished over that herring is growing scarce, and this wonderful fish, once considered plebeian, is now a delicacy. Here, a single herring is economically stretched into a filling meal for four in a dish that is common to both northern Russia and Estonia.

Ingredients

1 salt herring (about ¾ pound)
Milk
4 slices of bacon
4

Europe
Russia
Main course
Savoury
Eastern Europe
Gluten-free

Method

Rinse the herring and soak it overnight in milk. Discard the milk. Skin the herring, then split it and remove the backbone. Cut the herring into 1-inch pieces.

Grease an 8-inch ovenproof casserole. Fry the bacon until just barely crisp, reserving the bacon grease. Allow to cool, then crumble. P

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