Here is the recipe for a delicious homemade herring salad
Ingredients:
6 herrings, 1 large jar of beetroot in its own juice, 1 celeriac, 3 onions, 1 bowl of potatoes, 1 apple, 6 hard-boiled eggs, 750 g soup meat, 500 roast pork, 1 cup of oil, jarred pickled onions, 1 jar of gherkins, possibly a few nuts.
Preparation:
- prepare a good vegetable stock (carrots, celery, potatoes, leeks, herbs...) to boil the soup meat until it is nicely soft,
- fry the piece of pork in a pot,
- boil the peeled potatoes, celery and eggs,
- let everything cool down,
- Chop the onions, the drained gherkins, the apple, the cooked celery, half the turnips and the pickled onions and crush the walnut kernels,
- Cut both kinds of meat, the boned herrings, the other half of the turnips, the hard-boiled eggs and the potatoes into very small cubes, keeping a few slices of the eggs, onions and gherkins for the garnish,
- Mix everything in a bowl, season with salt and pepper to taste.
- Depending on the desired colouring, add beetroot juice.
Leave to marinate in a cool place, covered with a cloth, for one to two days.
Arrange the herring salad in bowls and garnish with the hard-boiled eggs, onions and gherkins cut in half lengthwise.