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Home Cured Herring

Type: Fish
Courses: Starters and appetizers
Serves: 8 people

Recipe Ingredients

2 cups 474mlDry white wine
1 cup 237mlWhite vinegar
1 cup 237mlWater
1/2 cup 118mlFine sea salt
1/2 cup 80g / 2.8ozLight brown sugar
3 tablespoons 45mlPickling spice
2   Dry hot peppers - (to 3)
1   Onion - thinly sliced (large)
1 tablespoon 15mlBlack peppercorns
2 lbs 908g / 32ozScaled and gutted fresh herring
  For Serving
  Black bread
  Sour cream
  Thinly-sliced sweet onions

Recipe Instructions

In a noncorrosive pot, combine all ingredients except fish. Bring to the boil, reduce, and simmer for 30 minutes. Add fish to simmering brine and poach 12 minutes before removing from the heat. Let stand to cool 1 hour before placing in a noncorrosive container large enough to hold all the liquid. Cover container and refrigerate fish totally submerged in brine for 3 days.

Serve with black bread, sour cream, and onions.

This recipe yields 8 servings.

Source:
MICHAEL'S PLACE with Michael Lomonaco - From the TV FOOD NETWORK - (Show # ML-1C10 broadcast 04-13-1998) - Downloaded from their Web-Site - http://www.foodtv.com

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