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Fried Baltic herring; skewered spring herring with brown butter

  • Serves 4
  • 30 minutes
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Variants receptei № 85 Grunduļi, strimalas un reņģes

Modernizētslpp. 179–180 · PDF 193–194
4 porcijas

The book gives no quantities; the amounts below are ours.

Method

5 soļi
  1. Cut off the heads, gut the fish and rinse them, or buy them cleaned (Baltic herring is often sold already opened out flat). Pat dry with a cloth or kitchen paper.
  2. Mix the salt into the flour and turn the fish in it. Brush them with the beaten yolk.
  3. Heat the butter in a large frying pan over medium heat and fry the fish for 2–3 minutes on each side, until golden and cooked through. Fry in batches and keep the fried fish warm.
  4. On skewers (large spring herring): thread each herring lengthwise onto a soaked skewer. Grill over glowing charcoal or under a hot grill for 3–4 minutes on each side, brushing with melted butter, until the skin is crisp and the flesh is cooked through.
  5. Melt the 60 g butter and cook it until nut-brown. Lay the fish in a warm dish, pour the brown butter over, scatter with parsley and squeeze the lemon over.

Notes

What the book says vs. what we added

the book has you wash the fish, dry them with a cloth, turn them in salt and flour, brush them with beaten egg yolk and fry them in a pan with butter. The large "leaf" herrings can also be roasted on a wooden skewer over coals, brushed with butter, then served in a dish with brown butter poured over, scattered with parsley leaves and sprinkled with lemon juice. The amounts and times are ours. The book gives the brown butter, parsley and lemon only for the skewered herring; they suit both.

Variant

this is the fried version of 03-085 and uses the same fish.

Leaf herring (lapu reņģes)

large, fat Baltic herring caught in spring, when the trees come into leaf. They're still a May treat in Latvia, usually fried.

Coating

flour first and yolk second is the book's order; it gives a thin golden crust.

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