Fried Baltic Herring with Mashed Potatoes
1 hour Recipe Yield:
4 servings Difficulty:
Medium recipe
Fried Baltic herring with mashed potatoes - a recipe for Swedish cuisine, the taste of Baltic herring will be more interesting if you put a leaf of fresh parsley between the fillets. The Swedes believe that it is necessary to fry Baltic herring only in butter.
Recipe Ingredients
Cooking Recipe
For the fried Baltic herring with potatoes recipe, place the herring fillet on a cutting board, flesh side up, sprinkle with salt and ground white pepper. Put one fillet on top of the other, giving the shape of a whole fish, and lay a leaf of parsley between the two fillets.
Bread the prepared fillet in rye flour, preferably coarse flour, and fry on both sides in hot oil until golden brown. Serve fried Baltic herring with boiled potato puree and grated lingonberries, or with buttered crispbread.