Herring Salad

Prep: 15min
| Servings: 4 | Cook: 30min
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Fresh herring salad featuring crisp potatoes, green beans, apples and a tangy vinaigrette. Try this and other recipes from Spoonsparrow!

Ingredients

  • 500 g Potatoes
  • 400 g Green Beans
  • Salt
  • Pepper (freshly ground)
  • 1 Shallot
  • 2 Apples
  • Lemon juice
  • 8 Bismarck herring fillets
  • 3 tbsp white wine vinegar
  • 3 tbsp vegetable broth
  • 5 tbsp Rapeseed Oil
  • 0.5 tsp Sugar
  • 0.5 tsp mustard
  • dill sprigs (for garnish)

Instructions

  1. 1.

    Wash potatoes and cook with skins in salted water for about 20 minutes, drain, cool, peel, and halve.

  2. 2.

    Rinse beans, trim ends, cut diagonally into 3 cm pieces, boil in salted water for about 10 minutes, drain, cool, and let drain.

  3. 3.

    Peel shallot and slice thinly. Wash apples, quarter them, remove cores, and slice thinly; mix immediately with lemon juice.

  4. 4.

    Rinse herring fillets briefly under cold water, pat dry, and cut into ~3 cm pieces.

  5. 5.

    Whisk vinegar, vegetable broth, salt, pepper, sugar, mustard, and oil together; taste. Toss all ingredients gently in a bowl with the dressing. Plate the salad and garnish with dill sprigs before serving.