Pickled herring in herbs

Here is a Scandinavian version of your favorite New Year's dish - herring under a fur coat.

Ingredients

• pickled barrel herring - 1 piece
• water - 0.5 l
• table vinegar - 75 ml
• granulated sugar - 125 g
• farm sour cream - 50 g
• farm cottage cheese - 50 g
• rye bread with malt - 1 piece
• garlic - 1 clove
• parsley - 1 bunch
• dill - 1 bunch
• thyme - 2 sprigs
• cardamom - 5 pieces
• anise - 3-4 stars
• black peppercorns - a pinch
• radish - 1 piece
• salt, pepper - to taste

Directions

1. Butcher the barrel herring: separate the fillet from the bones, cut into freeform triangles.
2. Prepare herring marinade: mix water, vinegar, sugar and spices. The proportions of sugar and vinegar can be altered to suit your own preference. You can turn on your imagination and add various spices and ingredients to the marinade, for example, spruce branches, wild berries, etc. Bring to a boil, cool at room temperature. Pour the prepared herring with cooled marinade at room temperature, close the lid tightly and leave in the refrigerator overnight.
3. After the herring is marinated, prepare a creamy homemade cheese. Mix farm cottage cheese and sour cream, add chopped garlic and chopped herbs to taste: dill, parsley, thyme. Salt and pepper to taste. As in the case of the marinade, the proportions of sour cream and cottage cheese can be changed according to your own taste and preferences. To stir thoroughly. The finished curd mass should have an elastic texture.
4. Rye bread crumb. Grate a piece of bread or grind in a blender and fry in a pan over high heat without oil for a couple of minutes until crisp, salt to taste.
5. Remove the herring from the marinade, blot with a paper towel to get rid of excess liquid. Roll each piece of pickled herring in finely chopped parsley qualitatively and evenly.
6. Putting the dish together. Spread homemade cream cheese on a plate, sprinkle with bread crumbs, top with pieces of herring in parsley, sprinkle with chopped herbs on top and garnish with thinly sliced ​​radish slices.