Salads

Rhenish Herring Salad

by Editorial Staff

Summary

Prep Time 30 mins
Total Time 2 mins
Course Salad
Cuisine European
Servings (Default: 12)

Ingredients

  • 3 glasses fish, (bismarck herrings)
  • 3 glasses beetroot, sliced
  • 2 glasses pickled cucumber (s)
  • 3 medium onion (s)
  • 4 medium apples, (Boskoop)
  • 7 medium potato (s), boiled, semi-firm
  • 4 egg (s), hard-boiled
  • 1 tablespoon mustard
  • 1 glass horseradish, hot, no cream horseradish
  • 0.5 ½ glass mayonnaise, good quality
  • 1 liter yogurt, low-fat
  • salt and pepper
  • Walnuts
  • 1 bunch parsley
Rhenish Herring Salad
Rhenish Herring Salad

Instructions

  1. Remove all ingredients from the glasses and drain well. Cut the onions into small cubes. Also cut the potatoes, apples and beetroot into small pieces. Halve the Bismarck herrings lengthways and cut across into strips.
  2. All ingredients come in a large earthenware pot or bowl. Add the horseradish, mustard, mayonnaise and yoghurt and mix everything together well. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Put in a cold place and let it steep for at least 2 days. Stir every now and then.
  3. To serve, chop the parsley and add it with the 2 quartered eggs and the walnuts, stir and decorate with the remaining, sliced eggs.
  4. The herring salad can be eaten at any time of the day. If it is too dry, just add more yogurt.
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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