Councils mistresses: how to pickle herring and what to make of it?

In the prescription box of the prudent hostess there is always an original recipe. And maybe not one. By the way, the recipes for how to pickle herring and diversify the menu of your beloved households with a tasty and simple dish may not be in your kitchen treasure.

Then take note of our advice. Recipes are very simple. And at the same time they do not require large material costs and are economical in terms of cooking time. Welcome!

How to choose a herring for pickling?

Before you buy a herring, carefully inspect the fish. On the head and fins of fresh frozen herrings should not be yellow. Yellow coating is a sign that the fish is stale and may have been defrosted more than once. Herring of good quality should be silvery with a blue tinge.

For pickling, it is best to choose carcasses without damage and with a small amount of ice. The most suitable for domestic salting is Norwegian herring, large in size and oily.

How to pickle herring - recipes

Salting herring at home is not difficult. By taste, such herring wins many times (compared with the purchased one). Therefore, careful housewives know how to pickle herring at home and long ago abandoned the need to buy ready-made in the store.

Dry way of salting

Carcass herrings gutted, remove the head and remove the central bone. As a matter of fact it will turn out a fish layer. The fillet should be sprinkled with a mixture of sugar and salt in a ratio of 1: 3. Then, at your discretion, you can roll a roll or fold it in half. Put in a container of glass or enamelware, put in the refrigerator. If the capacity allows, then you need to put gravity, so that the herring was in its own juice. And if without oppression, then the fish should be rotated from side to side periodically. Two days later the herring is ready.

How to pickle herring in brine?

To make a brine, boil 1 liter of water, then add 4 tablespoons of salt with a slide, 1 tablespoon of sugar and spices: coriander, cumin, bay leaf, cloves, sweet pepper.

Uneaten herring in a glass dish and pour cold brine. Put in the refrigerator. Two days later the salted herring is ready.

Fish menu for the joy of the family

Very often the hostesses do not bother with culinary delicacies from salted herring. They are limited to serving fish as a cold snack by laying slices of fillet in the herringbone and sprinkling with sunflower oil. But this is not done by everyone. After all, you can prepare simple and delicious dishes from herring.

The most popular dishes are:

• Herring oil ;
• Forshmak;
• Salad «Herring under a fur coat».

Do you think this is all that can be cooked from fish, which they salted themselves? Of course not. Cooking is a flight of imagination and chef's mood.

Today you can often meet rolls from Armenian lavash. As a filling, you can use herring, grated cheese, boiled egg, butter, mayonnaise. And in what order to make layers, this is a matter of taste.

Original snack salad

This salad will be a great decoration for both an ordinary dinner and a festive dinner. His taste will not leave anyone indifferent.

To prepare a salad you will need:

• Herring - 1 piece;
• A large sweet pepper - 1 piece;
• Average carrot - 1 pound;
• Pickled cucumber - 1 piece;
• Onion - 1 pound;
• Vinegar - 2 tbsp;
• Sunflower oil - 50g;
• Sugar - 10g.

Preliminary need to boil the carrots. The herring should be thoroughly cleaned from the skin and bones. Vegetables cut into small feathers, onions - half rings, and herring fillets - strips. Ingredients to mix, put in a salad bowl, add spices and sunflower oil.

Salad should be infused for at least one and a half hours, so that the products will exchange their tastes. Therefore, it must be sent to the refrigerator. Before serving, the dish is decorated with dill sprouts or other herbs.