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Prepared by: Dasha Petrova
07/25/2014 Cooking time: 19 hours 0 minutes
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The Icelandic herring recipe is an original way to turn an ordinary herring into an exquisite dish for real gourmets, because the whole secret is in a special wine sauce. Try it!
Herring in wine sauce
Wine and herring... This combination of products, for us Slavs, does not seem entirely acceptable, but it is very revered in the Scandinavian countries. Let's find out why northern Europeans love this recipe so much! Dry wine has exceptional qualities for marinade; it contains a balanced set of aromatic substances and natural acids that can turn our ordinary herring into a real delicacy. And herbs and spices successfully complement this delicious union!
Ingredients for cooking herring in wine sauce:
- salted herring – 2 pcs.
- dry red wine – 400 ml
- wine vinegar – 0.5 cups
- sugar – 1-3 tbsp.
- onion or red salad - 1 pc.
- cloves – 2-3 buds
- bay leaf – 1-2 pcs.
- mustard seeds – 1 tsp.
- coriander seeds – 1 tsp.
Recipe for herring in wine sauce:
First you need to prepare a wine marinade for herring: mix dry red wine and wine vinegar in a small saucepan.
Add the prepared spices – coriander beans, mustard seeds, bay leaf and sugar. The amount of sugar depends on how “sour” your wine is. We advise you to add sugar gradually: the marinade should not be too sweet, because the dish belongs to the category of snack foods, which means the proportions of sugar, acid and salt should be approximately the same. Place the saucepan on the fire, bring the wine to a boil, and simmer the marinade for 5 minutes over medium heat.
At this time, cut the onion into rings.
When the marinade has cooled a little and becomes warm, pour it over the onion rings and leave for 10 minutes.
This time is enough to fillet the herring, removing the head, entrails, skin and bones.
Place the cooled wine sauce in a colander, reserving all the liquid.
Cut the herring fillet into portion pieces of a size suitable for you and place them in a deep dish or in a food container in layers along with onion rings and spices.
Pour wine sauce over the herring, cover with cling film, and refrigerate for 1-2 days.
Herring in red wine sauce is ready! Serve the dish with fresh green onions or dill with boiled potatoes and fresh vegetables. Quite a simple recipe and a delicious snack!
To get marinated fish, for the preparation of which only natural ingredients were used, you need to make it yourself!
Herring in wine sauce turns out aromatic, tender and juicy, and we can vary the richness of taste at will. This dish will be a wonderful addition to both the holiday table and a regular dinner; the family will appreciate it, and guests will ask for the recipe!
The unusual combination of herring and dry wine may puzzle anyone, but in the Nordic countries it has been used for a very long time to create pickled snacks.
The wine has an excellent range of substances - it is an ideal marinade, which only needs to be supplemented with a certain set of spices. Depending on how long we keep the herring in the wine sauce, its taste will change - from very delicate to spicy and rich.
Whatever cooking recipe we turn to, for herring in wine sauce we will need already salted fish. We buy a couple of large carcasses and start creating a delicacy!
Aunt Gerda's Norwegian village
This marinade for herring allows you to get the finished product very quickly - literally in three to four hours. Combine half a glass of tomato puree with a quarter of the same juice, three tablespoons of olive oil, ground allspice and black pepper (to taste), salt and half a tablespoon of sugar. All this is whipped, gradually half a glass of cream is poured into the mixture. Pieces of herring fillet are placed in a jar, interspersed with half rings of red onion and layers of marinade - it turns out to be quite thick. Believe me, you don’t even know how tasty this fish can be!
Herring in wine sauce: recipe with white wine
Ingredients
- Medium-salted herring - 2 pcs.;
- Onion - 1 pc.;
- Sugar - 1 tbsp;
- Dry white wine - 200 ml;
- Water - 200 ml;
- Wine vinegar - 2 tbsp;
- Cloves - 3 buds;
- Peppercorns - 5 pcs.;
- Bay leaf - 3 pcs.
How to cook herring in wine sauce
We cut store-bought salted fish into fillet strips so that there are no bones left. If you want the presentation to be more impressive, roll the meat into rolls and secure them with toothpicks.
Immediately place in a flat enamel or glass container where the fish will marinate.
Spicy herring in wine sauce: recipe with red wine
We cut a couple of pieces of salted store-bought herring into fillets and set them aside to prepare the marinade.
- Combine 400 ml of dry red wine with 100 ml of wine vinegar.
- Heat them in a saucepan and, when the mixture begins to boil, add 2 tbsp. sugar and spices - 3 pcs. cloves, 1 bay leaf, 1 tsp. mustard seeds and the same amount of coriander.
We determine the amount of sugar approximately, since it depends on how salty the herring is. On average, you need from 1 to 3 tbsp. into two cut large carcasses.
- Boil the marinade for 5 minutes and, while it simmers, peel and cut a large onion into rings - it can be white or red, lettuce.
- Pour the wine sauce over the onion rings and leave for 10-15 minutes, then strain.
- Cut the herring fillets into portions, 1.5-2 cm wide, and place the portion in a flat container in one layer, then add the spices from the marinade on top. We repeat the operation until the fish runs out. After this, pour the sauce over everything, cover with a lid or cling film and leave for 2-3 days.
Serve the finished herring along with the marinated onions. Bon appetit!
Cooking herring in wine sauce (recipe with wine vinegar)
This recipe will come in handy if you don’t have dry white or red wine on hand, but want to make an unusual snack. Let's use wine vinegar and the right set of spices to get the perfect result.
Let's prepare a couple of fatty salted herrings in advance - remove the bones and cut them into portions.
Prepare spices for the marinade:
- Three fresh ginger root on a grater - we need 1 tbsp.
- Grind 7-8 pieces a little in a mortar. clove buds and 1 cinnamon stick.
- There is no need to grind the spices into dust, but it is necessary to grind them slightly to give a richer taste to the marinade.
After preparation, we proceed to the marinade itself:
Add these spices to 300 ml of hot water, also add ½ tsp. ground white pepper, 2 bay leaves, 4 tbsp. sugar and 1 tbsp. salt.
1 tbsp. pour red wine vinegar and regular table vinegar. Keep on low heat for 4-5 minutes, turn off, strain.
Immediately place the fish fillet in a flat dish in one layer, pour hot marinade over it, then a second one and repeat the procedure until the herring slices are gone.
We put it in the refrigerator overnight, and in the morning you can enjoy a wonderful snack!
As you can see, preparing herring in wine sauce is very simple, and the ingredients used can be found in any grocery store. Try making a delicious appetizer using different recipes, and share in the comments which option you liked best!
Having bought lightly salted herring at the market or in a store, do not rush to serve it. Yes, the finished herring is not without its taste and has an aroma. But once you experiment in the kitchen, the fish becomes even tastier. To do this, you just need to prepare wine sauce for the fish.
Homemade herring in wine sauce is the best appetizer for a holiday feast. It is enough to familiarize yourself with the set of necessary products, and you will understand that you can easily repeat all the steps. A recipe with a photo will help you with this.
Cooking methods
Herring is frozen, smoked, canned in its own juice, in oil and tomato juice, boiled, fried, dried, salted (the method has been known since ancient times), but the most popular option is marinating in various fillings and sauces using spices, seasonings, wine, salt and other products. It is available both in industry and at home. Pickled herring is the basis of popular salad recipes, served as an independent dish in the company of rye bread with aromatic herbs or green onions, as an appetizer.
How to cook herring in wine sauce
Cut the salted herring fillet into arbitrary pieces. The main thing is that there are no bones in the fish, so first check all parts with tweezers. Distribute the herring on a plate or place in a container.
Cut the onions, which always complement herring, into half rings. Despite the fact that it is spicy, it will marinate perfectly.
Place the onion in a bowl (saucepan), add peppercorns, bay leaf, and cloves.
Pour in the wine. Set to heat over medium heat.
Add sugar and vinegar, simmer the marinade for 1-2 minutes until the aromas of all the spices are fully released. Remove sauce from heat and cool to room temperature.
Pour wine sauce over the herring and leave to marinate in a cool place for 5-6 hours. For convenience, place in the refrigerator.
Serve the finished appetizer to the table, it looks very decent. Bon appetit!
Benefit
Herring is the most common fish in the seas and oceans of our planet. It is distinguished by its nutritional value, the amount of omega-3 fatty acids, protein, vitamins, and minerals it contains. One hundred grams of the product contains 46% vitamin D, 25% phosphorus, 10% potassium, 16% riboflavin, calcium, vitamin B6 of the daily intake.
Herring can be included in the diet without fear.
Its use has a positive effect on the cardiovascular system, maintaining the functioning of the nervous system and brain. This type of fish does not accumulate heavy metals and harmful substances.
Icelandic herring
The Icelandic herring recipe is an original way to turn an ordinary herring into an exquisite dish for real gourmets, because the whole secret is in a special wine sauce. Try it!
If you read it, you will understand that this option on how to make herring in Icelandic style is a real find! In fact, you can still add salt to the marinade, but only if the fish you bought itself turned out to be a bit bland. If the fish is salted, then why spoil the delicate, elegant taste of the marinade? In general, you now know this simple recipe for Icelandic herring, so you can experiment as you like - add zest and pieces of lemon, for example, or marinate onions in the same marinade - it also turns out very interesting.
Ingredients:
- Salted herring – 4 pieces
- Ginger root – 1 piece
- Cloves - 3 pieces
- Cinnamon – 1 piece (1 stick)
- Peppercorns – 8 pieces
- Sugar - 2 tbsp. spoons
- Bay leaf – 1 piece
- Wine vinegar - 3 tbsp. spoons
- Dry red wine – 400 Milliliters
Number of servings: 7
How to cook “Herring in Icelandic style”
1. Take the herring, already salted, large in size. We clean it of entrails and large bones. 2. You need to hold each fish under running boiling water, then the skin will be easily removed. 3. Cut off the head and tail, cut the fish into pieces, removing the remaining large bones. 4. Prepare the marinade. Grind the ginger on a fine grater, and crush the pepper or grind it in a blender. Mix all the spices, pour wine over them, and boil until it starts to gurgle. Cool, add vinegar. 5. Now pour the cooled marinade over the fish and leave it in the refrigerator overnight. Ready!
Instead of vinegar - vodka
Many people believe that nothing can be pickled without vinegar. Exceptions are made only for barbecue meat - there the choice of base is quite large. However, there is a marinade for herring, the recipe of which successfully dispenses with this acidic component. A small, extremely hot pepper is finely chopped and ground with a teaspoon of lemon juice and two cloves of chopped garlic. Add a little dill, a third of a small spoon of sugar, half a glass of vegetable oil and vodka. This mixture is poured over the chopped fillet and left in the refrigerator for several hours.
Note that no matter what marinade you choose for herring, the main thing remains the quality of the fish. And please note - all recipes are designed for already cut fish, and also cut into portions. You can, of course, marinate a whole carcass, but then you will have to wait much longer.
Herring in wine marinade
The herring is fabulous! The marinade is amazing!
Ingredients for “Herring in wine marinade”:
- Herring or iwasi (salted; fillet, cut into small pieces) - 5 pcs.
- Onions (cut into thin rings) - 2 pcs.
- Sugar - 1 cup.
- Dry red wine - 1 glass.
- Vinegar (table vinegar (I have it half and half with red wine)) - 1 cup.
- Clove (bud) - 1 pc.
- Bay leaf - 2 pcs.
- Black pepper (peas) - 1 tsp.
- Mustard (seeds) - 1 tbsp. l.
Recipe for “Herring in wine marinade”:
I'm crying and sobbing because I accidentally deleted the photos of preparing the marinade. I regret this terribly, because the marinade turns out sooooo beautiful. I made half the norm, because 5 herrings is a lot, in my opinion, even for big herring fans.
