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Homemade-style Pickled Herring

by Editorial Staff

Summary

Prep Time 15 mins
Total Time 1 hr 15 mins
Course Main Course
Cuisine European
Servings (Default: 4)

Ingredients

  • 2 apples, sour (e.g. Boskoop)
  • 4 pickled cucumber (s)
  • 2 onions)
  • 150 g sour cream
  • 250 g yourt, low-fat
  • 1 teaspoon mustard
  • 1 teaspoon pepper, coarsely ground
  • 1 teaspoon mustard seeds
  • Salt and pepper, a few drops sweetener
  • 3 salted herring (s) (herring 80 g each)
  • 1 kg jacket potato (s), freshly cooked
  • 350 g beetroot (canned)
Homemade-style Pickled Herring
Homemade-style Pickled Herring

Instructions

  1. Dice the apples and pickled cucumbers into small pieces, and finely chop the onions. In a large bowl, mix the sour cream with the yogurt, mustard, coarsely ground pepper, and mustard seeds. Season with salt, pepper, and sweetener to taste. Stir in the apple pieces, cucumber, and onions until well combined.
  2. Drain the salted herring fillets and place them in a bowl. Pour the prepared sauce over the herring, making sure it is completely covered. Cover the bowl and refrigerate for 1 hour.
  3. Arrange the freshly cooked jacket potatoes on serving plates. Top with the marinated herring and its sauce, and serve with the canned beetroot on the side.
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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