Herring and Potato Salad with Crème Fraîche

Name: Herring and Potato Salad with Crème Fraîche
Ingredients: 1 small red onion, chopped; 12 oz (350 g) very small new potatoes, cleaned; 8 oz (225 g) matjes herring fillets; 1 cucumber, diced; 1 beef tomato, diced; 1 tablespoon parsley, chopped; 3 tablespoons olive oil; 2 tablespoons crème fraîche; Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper; Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Potato Year

By Lucy Madden

Published 2015

About

Regrettably, since they are easily available, rollmop herrings will not do in this salad. Matjes herrings, much harder to find, are sweeter and gentler since they are cured in sugared brine.

Ingredients

12 oz (350 g) very small new potatoes, cleaned
8 oz (225

Fish course
Pescatarian
October
Wedding/Marriage

Method

Steam the potatoes and, meanwhile, cut the herring fillets into bite-size pieces.

Marinade the cucumber, tomato and parsley in the olive oil and crème fraîche. Season.

As soon as the potatoes are tender, stir them into the salad. Add the herring fillets, sprinkle with the red onion and serve.