Marinated herring recipes: any suggestions?

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Hello all,

I'm looking over the internet for a marinated herring recipe to do at home. I have found Dutch and Norwegian recipes but they use sugar, something I would like to avoid.

I remember eating herring in Poland at 5am after a night out and it was delicious. It was a bit oily so I guess it is not marinated in water/vinegar but some sort of oil.

Anyway, could you please suggest a simple, easy to do recipe that does not take sugar? Thanks!!

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Is it for a diabetic?

As most of the sugar will be in the pickling solution and there's hardly any to begin with in most recipes, it's trace amounts per serving.

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Is it marinating or pickling you're looking for?

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I assumed he was looking for a Rollmop recipe. I love them!

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https://www.cookaround.com/ricetta/a...n-cipolle.html

https://ricette.donnamoderna.com/aringhe-marinate

Tom

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No no, I'm not diabetic. I checked some recipes and thought it was too much sugar.

Oh, good question, I thought it was the same thing.

Just googled rollmop, I also like it!

Thanks Tom, but have you tried these recipes?

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No, and anyway I normally use anchovies (sarde in saor) or trout (pesce in carpione) for pickled fish.

Tom

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I'd have thought the most difficult part of the recipe will be obtaining fresh herring....

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Scandinavians do make herring pickle a bit too sweet. Even in the UK they sold mostly sweet pickled fish/eel/gherkins.

The difference is: they pickle it, but you want to marinate it. There is a difference between the two. Pickling involves lot's of vinegar, marinating involves mainly water+salt+herbs.

I am not an expert, but please look at this webpage: https://lifehacker.ru/kak-solit-seledku/ . It is in Russian, but use google translate. They have 8 ways of marinating herring it seems. Once herring has marinated nicely, you can preserve it in oil i guess. However, even Polish/Russian recipe involves a pinch of sugar.

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There are Dutch events where they sell them, and else you could try Das Fischhuus in Emmenbrücke which is run by Dutch

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This.

Tom

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I will buy it in Italy during the weekend.

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Solomon Gundy. Nova Scotian pickled herring. It uses some sugar in the pickling solution, but doesn't taste sweet - more of a delicious, slightly sour dill-y flavour.

I miss it horrendously. Good luck!

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I'm Polish and my Dad makes the best marinated herring there is

The secret is to put herring fillets into milk for couple of hours. This allows them to loose saltiness and make them really tender.

Afterwards you put them into a jar with couple ( 3 -4 ) bay leafs, few allspice seeds and pepper seeds. You fill in the jar with rapeseed oil and leave it for couple of days in the fridge.

Enjoy

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ohh I forgot about the most important ingredient ... lots of chopped onions should be in the jar as well

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Hey, thank you very much for the tips. Indeed, the herring I ate in Krakow was the best so far.

However, are you sure that the correct translation in English is "rapeseed oil" ? It is forbidden for food use in some countries.

Can I put the herrings fillets and the onion rings tightly into a jar? How much seeds and bay leafs should I put?

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From here

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[QUOTE=Capo;2970570]Hey, thank you very much for the tips. Indeed, the herring I ate in Krakow was the best so far.

However, are you sure that the correct translation in English is "rapeseed oil" ? It is forbidden for food use in some countries.

If you don't like rapeseed oil you can use different vegetable one but we would always use rapeseed like this one:

https://www.coopathome.ch/en/superma...?refCat=m_0140

Yes you can put it really tight. Onions actually should be chopped instead of rings, this way you can fit more in a jar. 3 -4 bay leafs and 4 seeds for 5 fillets should be fine. Also add pepper seeds.