Baltic herring fillets with caper butter sauce

Silli kapriskastikkeen kanssa

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
The Food and Cooking of Finland: Traditions, Ingredients, Tastes and Techniques in Over 60 Classic Recipes

By Anja Hill

Published 2007

  • About

This recipe is a modern take on a traditional recipe using Baltic herrings. In earlier years, no Finn would waste vodka in cooking, mostly because it was too expensive and hard to come by. The flavour of the ubiquitous dill adds that authentic Finnish flavour to this otherwise simple dish.

Ingredients

  • a little butter, for greasing
  • 50 g/2 oz/1 cup

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 200°C/400°F/Gas 6. Grease a shallow, ovenproof dish with butter and sprinkle 15 ml/1