For the festive table, I recommend cooking an ordinary herring in an unusual spicy marinade. This marinade gives the fish fragrant spicy notes of spices. The taste of fish marinated in this way will play in a completely different way.
A herring appetizer in a spicy marinade will surprise you with its unusual taste and aroma. This dish is completely simple. You can cook such a fish a day or two before the holiday, and at the appointed time just serve it on the table. This option saves a lot of time on a holiday.
Be sure to cook a herring appetizer in a spicy marinade - you will fall in love with its simplicity and elegant taste.
Ingredients:
- slightly salted herring - 2 pcs.
- onion - 1 pc.
- raisins - 2 tbsp. l.
Marinade:
- sunflower oil - 3/4 tbsp.
- lemon juice - 3 tbsp. l.
- soy sauce - 1 tbsp. l.
- honey - 1 tbsp. l.
- French mustard grains - 1 tsp l.
- ground cinnamon - 1/2 tsp. l.
- ground ginger - 1/2 tsp. l.
- ground black pepper - 1/2 tsp. l.
Step by step recipe
1. Prepare two lightly salted herring.
First, we clean the herring from the insides. Then we make an incision along the entire ridge and remove the skin.
2. Next, carefully separate one fillet from the bones with your hands. Separate the second fillet in the same way. The bones that remain are taken out with tongs for fish bones or by hand.
3. Cut all four fillets into bite-sized pieces.
4. Let's prepare the rest of the ingredients.
Cut one onion into half rings.
2 tbsp. l. Wash the raisins first in cold water, and then pour boiling water for 10 minutes.
5. We are preparing the marinade.
Pour 1 tbsp into a bowl. soy sauce, pour ¾ cup of vegetable oil here, pour 0.5 tsp. ground cinnamon, 0.5 tsp each ground ginger and black ground pepper, put 2 tsp. French mustard grains, 1 tbsp. honey and squeeze the juice from half a lemon, this is about 3 Art. l. We mix everything.
Mustard seeds can be replaced with regular mustard.
6. In a bowl, put the prepared herring fillet, chopped onion and raisins in layers. Pour everything with the prepared marinade. The marinade should cover the entire herring.
7. Cover the bowl with cling film or a lid and marinate in the refrigerator for a day.
The herring appetizer in a spicy marinade turned out to be very tasty and unusual. Herring was soaked with spicy aromas of seasonings and acquired an incredible refined taste. Raisins also harmoniously fit into this dish and gave the herring, along with honey, a light sweetish note. Be sure to cook the herring in such a marinade, I think you will definitely not regret it.
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Recipe taken from my cooking site gotovimop.com