Finnish - Layered Midsummer Herring

Submitted by Baby Kato

"This recipe is posted here for play in ZWT9 - Scandinavia. This recipe is from website: freshfromfinland.com This delicious herring recipe is simple to make, and works especially well when served with a side of new crop potatoes. Please note: Chill time is noted in cook time."

 

• Ready In: 2hrs 5mins
• Ingredients: 10
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 6 -8 ounces herring fillets, fillets in oil* (canned or vacuum packed)
• 1 bunch fresh dill, chopped
• 1 bunch chives, thinly chopped
• 8 ounces sour cream
• 1⁄2 lemon, juice of
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 1 tablespoon mustard
• salt
• white pepper
• pickling jar

directions

1. Pat the herring fillets dry with paper towels and cut lengthwise into ½-inch slices.
2. Chop dill and chives and set aside.
3. In a mixing bowl, combine the sour cream, lemon juice, sugar, mustard, and mix well.
4. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
5. In the pickling jar, layer the herring fillets, sour cream mixture and the chopped chives and dill, starting and ending with a layer of dill and chives.
6. Refrigerate for 1-2 hours and serve with new potatoes.

Reviews

[twissis]

Made for the FYC Tag Game - I made this as written except that I did not serve it w/potatoes as suggested. I served it the way we eat it here .. atop buttered toast. It was so good that I was actually purring as I ate my brunch today. I did have a moment of confusion about the mustard ingredient. I couldn't tell if you wanted a table mustard, sweet mustard, Dijon mustard or other grainy brown mustard, etc. I finally opted to use 1/2 T sweet mustard & 1/2 T Dijon mustard. Loved this BK. Thx for sharing it w/us.

 

[duonyte]

My favorite way of making herring is the way Mother did (recipe posted on food.com), but this one caught my eye, as I love dill. And this is definitely an excellent recipe. I never liked the commercial sour cream herrings, this is nothing like those. I used salt herring, which I can conveniently buy at several places in my area. I soaked it about 24 hours to remove some of the salt. No chives at the market, and I did not want to use the garlic chives in my garden for this, so I used the green tops of scallions, finely chopped, which worked well. For some reason I have no mustard at home, so I used some horseradish cream, and that blended in well. I simply forgot about the lemon juice, and used only about 1 tsp of sugar. The sauce was very tasty. I also just mixed everything together instead of layering, so used a ceramic dish. I did sprinkle with additional chopped dill. While herring with boiled potatoes is very customary for us, too, I ate this with good Lithuanian rye bread, and it is delicious.