Salads

Matjes – Salad with Difference

by Editorial Staff

Summary

Prep Time 40 mins
Total Time 40 mins
Course Salad
Cuisine European
Servings (Default: 4)

Ingredients

  • 8 fish (herring), whole
  • 2 apples (Boskoop)
  • 4 large onion (s)
  • 4 egg (s), hard-boiled
  • 4 medium pickled cucumber (s)
  • 1 tablespoon capers, heaped
  • 1 tablespoon parsley
  • some pepper
  • 1 cup sour cream
  • 1 cup natural yogurt
Matjes – Salad with Difference
Matjes – Salad with Difference

Instructions

  1. Peel the herring, remove the bones and cut into pieces. Peel and core the apples and cut into cubes. Peel the onions and cut them into large cubes. Peel and dice the eggs. Peel the pickles and cut into slices.
  2. Put everything in a bowl. Add the capers without the stock, also finely weighed, fresh or dried parsley. Season with pepper. Fold in the sour cream and yogurt. Mix everything well again. Let steep in the refrigerator until serving.
  3. You can also replace yoghurt and sour cream with quark. Serve the matjessalat with jacket potatoes.
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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