From this delicious lightly salted fish you can prepare a lot of different dishes, including the simplest, so to speak, popular ones. One of these dishes - potatoes with onions and herring - is probably the favorite and most popular dish in the USSR, and then in the post-Soviet space. You can call it both an appetizer and a salad, besides, it is very filling and extremely easy to prepare. And it disappears from the plates instantly, be it a festive or everyday table.

Potatoes with onions and herring: the simplest recipe

So, all we need is: half a kilo of potatoes, a couple of onions and a herring - one large or two small. In addition, you can use fresh dill, parsley, green onions as a decoration for the dish. Also, potatoes with onions and herring will require a drop of vegetable oil (it is better to take not refined, but fragrant). Here, in fact, are all the ingredients for this super-simple dish.

How to cook

Note: if desired, whole tubers can be replaced with mashed potatoes prepared with sour cream. It works great as a side dish.

Herring salad with potatoes and onions

You can also create an original and simple salad with the same ingredients. It is used as a cold snack with strong drinks. To prepare it, we take 4-5 potatoes, a couple of onions, two medium-sized lightly salted herrings (barrel), vegetable oil (the best option would be cold-pressed, market, sunflower or olive), salt and ground black pepper - on the tip of a knife. To decorate the salad we use green onions and dill sprigs. By the way, if you wish, you can add pickled mushrooms - say, honey mushrooms. Delicious!

Let's cook simply!

1. We prepare the herring as in the previous recipe, making fillets from it. Cut the fish into medium-sized cubes.
2. Wash the potatoes, peel and boil until tender (time depends on the variety). Cool and cut into cubes.
3. We clean and cut the onion: either finely or in half rings - as you like.
4. If necessary, add a couple of spoons of pickled honey mushrooms.
5. In one bowl, mix all the ingredients, adding a little vegetable oil.
6. Decorate the salad with fresh chopped herbs and let it sit at the bottom of the refrigerator for a while. After an hour you can serve it. Bon appetit everyone!

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You can prepare many different dishes from herring, but it is also very tasty with potatoes and onions, it is a very popular and simple dish, and also very satisfying, it is prepared very, very simply, and disappears from the plate instantly...

Products:

• Lightly salted herring (3 pcs.)
• Potatoes (9-12 pcs.)
• Onions (3 pcs.)
• Vegetable oil
• Lemon (1 pc.)
• Vinegar (to taste)
• Greenery

***Products serve approximately three servings

How to cook herring with potatoes and onions, step by step recipe with photos

1. Wash and let the potatoes boil in their jackets, cook until tender, then drain and place under cold water to cool faster (if you want, you can peel them and cook them in the usual way).

3. Peel the onion and cut it into half rings.

4. Peel potatoes in their jackets.

5. Cut the lemon into slices.

6. Now beautifully place the chopped fillet of one herring on a flat plate on one edge, decorate with onion half rings, if you like, pour a little vinegar or lemon juice (1 tsp).

On the other edge of the plate we put three lemon rings and put 3-4 peeled potatoes in their jackets or just boiled potatoes, pour a little vegetable oil, decorate with herbs, you can sprinkle with chopped green onions and serve.

7. You can also serve herring with mashed potatoes.

8. You can also lay it all out in layers and let it sit until it soaks in. Place in a deep plate (I make it for home, for myself in a container, it’s more convenient) a layer of boiled potatoes, cut into slices, then a layer of onion in half rings, pieces of herring on top and the rest of the onion on top of the herring and sprinkle with herbs.

Next, you need to pour plenty of vegetable oil, if you like, add vinegar to taste (1-1.5 tsp). Place in the refrigerator and let it brew for a couple of hours. By the way, when we marinate herring in vinegar, the small remaining bones soften and are less noticeable.

Here are some more interesting options:

*** Sandwich snack. Grease black bread with mayonnaise, put a few slices of boiled potatoes, a little onion and pieces of herring on top, decorate with herbs:

*** We put a long feather of green onion, a tall slice of potato on the onion, a piece of herring on it, a ring of onion on top of the herring and tie each feather of the onion on top of a knot, put the resulting snack-knot on a plate and so on with each knot:

Previously, I only ate salted herring, the most traditional option. But at the market, starting in May, we sell fresh Don herring, which is caught in the Don. Many people buy it and salt it at home, they also fry and bake it. So I decided to try it and realized that it was very tasty!

It is very tasty fried with dill; the main thing is not to skimp on it, but generously sprinkle it on the almost finished herring while still in the frying pan. It is no less good baked; I bake it along with potatoes, which I cut into pieces and sprinkle with herbs. And since I like a golden brown crust, before baking I only lightly fry it, and then finish it in the oven together with the potatoes.

When the Don herring season begins, I buy it for future use and freeze it so that it can be prepared at any time of the year. I think that Atlantic herring can be prepared in the same way if you buy it fresh. In any case, I advise you to try this dish. Oven-baked herring with potatoes is an inexpensive dish, so you can cook it often if you like fish.

So, let's prepare potatoes, herring, and spices for our dish.

Since my herring is frozen, I defrost it, after which it must be gutted, the gills removed, rinsed under running water and dried. If there is caviar, we leave it too.

Salt and pepper the herring and caviar. Also sprinkle with dried thyme, just a little.

Wash the potato tubers and cut them into four pieces. When the potatoes are young, they can be cooked with the skins on. Place the potatoes in a baking dish, add salt and pepper, also sprinkle them with thyme and sprinkle with vegetable oil. Place the pan in the oven and bake the potatoes until half cooked.

As I said above, before baking I fry the fish only lightly - until a barely golden crust appears - in a heated frying pan with vegetable oil. I also fry the caviar; you shouldn’t bake it, otherwise it will become dry.

Then cut the lemon into thin slices.

Place the herring carcasses in the mold with the potatoes and place lemon slices on top.

Bake the herring and potatoes in the oven at 180 degrees for 20 minutes, until the fish and potatoes are completely cooked.

Take the herring and potatoes out of the oven and transfer to a plate. Our Don herring is smaller in size than the Atlantic one, so we safely take one fish for one serving. Serve piping hot, fresh vegetables are a must! Bon appetit!

Many people perceive herring exclusively in its salted form, but many delicious dishes can be prepared from fresh herring. Fresh herring itself is a very tasty and tender fish, with a small amount of bones. This is a recipe from Finnish cuisine, where fish plays a major role. Finns love and respect fresh herring and cook it often. Potatoes with herring- the dish is fatty, and at the same time very tender. It contains both butter and milk, which provides quick warmth in cold weather. Write this recipe down in your notebook and remember it in late autumn or cold winter. You will undoubtedly appreciate this recipe.

Ingredients

To prepare herring with potatoes you will need:

potatoes - 500 g;

eggs - 2 pcs.;

fresh herring (not salted!!!) - 1 pc.;

onion - 1 pc.;

milk - 1 glass;

vegetable oil - 50 g;

flour - 1 tbsp. l.;

salt, pepper - to taste;

butter;

dill - for decoration - a sprig.

Cooking steps

Finely chop the onion and sprinkle it over the herring. Sprinkle flour on top and pour vegetable oil. Cover the pan with a lid and simmer over low heat for 20 minutes.

Keep on fire until the poured filling thickens and a golden brown crust forms on top. Add salt and pepper to taste. Turn off the fire and you can call your household members to the table. Herring and potatoes are ready!

Bon appetit!

You will eat and remember Finnish cuisine with kind words!

Today I have three in one. This note is not for experienced housewives. I’ll tell you a little about how to choose a herring, and I’ll tell you in detail how to clean it. And I’ll give you the simplest recipe for a completely royal dinner - herring in mustard sauce with hot potatoes, aromatic sunflower oil and onions.

How to choose lightly salted herring

I don’t like buying herring fillets in plastic containers or vacuum packaging. I once read that they almost soak it in formaldehyde to get rid of small bones. I prefer herring salted in barrels. In our beautiful country, such herring is sold in fish aisles, the most varied, from Atlantic and Ivasi to Don. You need to take a herring that is straight, plump, without damage to the skin or rusty spots. It should be very elastic and dense. If it has reddish eyes, then it is very lightly salted, very tasty, but I am afraid to buy one. I choose medium-salted herring, with whitish eyes, then soak it until lightly salted, and put the whole herring in cold water for a couple of hours. And look at the back! The wider the back, the fattier and tastier the herring.

Lightly salted barrel herring

And of course, such herring needs to be cleaned.

How to easily peel lightly salted herring from skin and entrails

In the meantime, I set the potatoes to boil. Everything is as usual, peel, if large, cut, put in cold water, bring to a boil and cook until tender (about 20 minutes). I don't add salt. If a knife or fork pierces the potato without effort, drain the water.

Boil potatoes without salt

I cover the entire table with cling film and cut the herring on thick paper. Cut off the head, cut the abdomen with a sharp knife and remove the entrails. Don't cut off the tail! Rinse the inside of the herring under running cold water.

Make an incision along the back of the fish, along the dorsal fin.

Gently pry up the skin at the cut and peel the skin off the herring. Here, in the photo you can see how round and fat she is.

Now take the herring by the tail with both hands and pull it in different directions. The herring will begin to separate into three parts - the lower two, with a cut along the abdomen, and the back.

Split the herring using the tail fin

Here's how it happened. The backbone remains.

Divide the dorsal part along an incision made near the fin, and remove the spine along with large bones. Now cut off the tail fins.

From one herring we got four neat fillets.

How to clean herring

All that remains is to cut each fillet, removing small bones along the way.

How to clean lightly salted herring

How to prepare mustard sauce for herring, sandwiches with herring fillet, Borodino bread and onions and herring with potatoes

The potatoes are boiled, there are green and regular onions, fresh herbs, Borodino bread, mustard and the most aromatic sunflower oil made from fried seeds, bought there, at the Old Bazaar. For herring you can quickly prepare mustard sauce, the mustard you need is spicy, homemade, here’s how to prepare it. And making the sauce couldn’t be easier: mix a tablespoon of ready-made mustard with a level teaspoon of sugar, add a tablespoon of aromatic sunflower oil purchased at the market. Stir everything well until the sugar dissolves and add a couple of tablespoons of water. Place pieces of herring in this sauce for a few minutes, mmmmmm! Yummy... But just spread mustard on fresh black bread, put a piece of herring on top and sprinkle with onions - it won’t be any worse!

Mustard sauce for herring, herring with potatoes

My husband and I are having a royal dinner today! You can’t get this in any restaurant at any price! Hot potatoes, aromatic sunflower oil, mustard, Borodino bread, onions and fresh herbs are the ideal company for lightly salted herring.

Herring with potatoes, mustard sauce, herring fillet sandwiches

Can I not write anything else? I’ll just post the last photo and go... While the potatoes are hot...

Lightly salted herring in ideal company

Bon appetit!