Herring salad
Herring salads are various traditional salads , especially from Polish, Scandinavian, North German and Dutch cuisine made from salted herring , occasionally pieces of bismarck herring and other ingredients. Depending on the region, these are, for example, potatoes , beetroot , raw apples , pickles , celery , onions, dill or a marinade .
Preparation and variations
There are numerous variants for the preparation. Classic Scandinavian and also Dutch are z. B. soaked salted herring, boiled potatoes, celery, pickles and apples diced and dressed with a thick marinade of herring milk , grated onions , vinegar and oil . For the Dutch Herringla fish, the typical regional matjes is used. The Swedish way of preparing salt herring, boiled beef , beetroot and apples are mixed with a vinegar-oil marinade, as well as chopped anchovies , pickles, capers and mustard .
Herring salad in the north German style consists of salted herrings, boiled meat , beetroot, pickled cucumbers and mayonnaise and is correspondingly red in color.
The French salade de hareng aux pommes only contains salted herring, apples, vinegar, oil and onions. In Vienna and the surrounding area (Eastern Austria), a herring salad ("Heringsschmaus") is a traditional dish on Ash Wednesday . In the meantime, however, many restaurants also offer a lavish fish buffet as a herring feast on Ash Wednesday. The herring in a fur coat is a Russian layered salad and consists of salted herring fillet, beetroot, boiled potatoes, carrots, onions, eggs and mayonnaise.
Norwegian herring salad (traditionally garnished)
North German herring salad with beetroot
Fiery herring salad
Russian herring salad
literature
- Tom Dieck: Pottkieker. 50 classic north German dishes with a history . Koehler, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-7822-1079-9 , pp. 14-15 .
