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Herring Salad North German Style

by Editorial Staff

Summary

Prep Time 25 mins
Total Time 25 mins
Course Salad
Cuisine European
Servings (Default: 4)

Ingredients

  • 8 herring fillet (s)
  • 1 apple
  • 1 onion (s), red
  • 1 pickle (s)
  • 1 lemon (s), juice and zest of it
  • 1 bunch of dill
  • 150 g sour cream
  • 150 g yogurt, 1.5%
  • 150 g cream
  • 1 pinch of salt and pepper
Herring Salad North German Style
Herring Salad North German Style

Instructions

  1. Cut herring fillets into 2 cm wide pieces. Wash, core and dice the apple. Peel the onion and cut into thin rings. Dice the pickles. Wash the lemon with hot water and rub the peel. Wash dill, shake dry and chop.
  2. Mix the sour cream, yoghurt, heavy cream, lemon zest and dill. Mix in the prepared matjes, apple, onion and pickled cucumber and season with salt, pepper and lemon juice.

Recipe Notes

Jacket potatoes taste best with it.

Editorial Staff

About Editorial Staff

The Boss Kitchen editorial staff oversees content review, fact-checking, and recipe verification across the site. Published articles pass through the editorial team before going live, ensuring ingredient lists, techniques, cooking times, and nutritional claims hold up in a home kitchen. The team coordinates contributions across the site writers, handles reader corrections, and maintains consistency in measurement conventions, safety guidance, and dietary labeling. Posts under this byline typically represent team-reviewed reference material, site announcements, or editorial roundups rather than individual-author features, and they are held to the same sourcing standards as bylined recipe and product coverage.

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