Herring Salad with Raisins and Sour Cream

Prep: 15min
| Servings: 4 | Cook: 20min
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A fresh herring salad featuring potatoes, green onions, apples, raisins, sour cream, yogurt, horseradish, white wine vinegar, sunflower oil, salt, pepper, and parsley. Enjoy this dish from Spoonsparrow!

Ingredients

  • 4 potatoes (mostly waxy)
  • 6 pickled herring fillets (Bismarck herrings)
  • 1 stalk of leeks
  • 1 apple
  • Lemon juice
  • 2 tbsp raisins
  • 250 g sour cream
  • 150 g plain yogurt
  • 2 tsp horseradish
  • 3 tbsp white wine vinegar
  • 3 tbsp sunflower oil
  • Salt
  • Pepper (freshly ground)
  • 3 sprigs parsley

Instructions

  1. 1.

    Cook the potatoes for about 20 minutes, peel, cool, and dice.

  2. 2.

    Drain the herring fillets and cut into bite-sized pieces.

  3. 3.

    Wash the leeks and slice into thin rings.

  4. 4.

    Peel the apple, cube it, and drizzle with a little lemon juice.

  5. 5.

    Rinse the raisins briefly in hot water and drain.

  6. 6.

    For the dressing whisk sour cream, yogurt, horseradish, vinegar, and oil; season well with salt and pepper, then finish with a splash of lemon juice.

  7. 7.

    Serve the dressing on each plate, combine all salad ingredients, arrange over the dressing, and garnish with parsley sprigs.