Everything is known that the most delicious food that is cooked at home. That is why in this article I want to talk about how you can deliciously marinate herring at home: what you need for this and how to do it right.
Option 1. In Korean
So, to make the pickled herring tasty, you can try to salt it in the "Korean" way. To do this, stock up on the following ingredients:
- 1 kg of fish (if there is no herring, you can take sardine, mackerel, pangasius or pelengas).
- A pound of onions.
- Half a teaspoon of red and black ground peppers.
- One tablespoon of salt.
- One tablespoon of tomato paste.
- About 2-3 tablespoons of vinegar.
- Half a glass of vegetable oil (you can either ordinary, sunflower or olive).
Cooking method
So, to make the pickled herring with onions beautiful, it must first be cut: to separate the head, fins, tail, take out the ridge and bones. All that remains is a fish fillet, which is cut into pieces, salted, seasoned (red and black pepper), “smeared” with tomato paste. At this stage, you need to cook the onion: for this, it is cut into half rings (do not be afraid to go too far with this ingredient, the more onions the better). When everything is ready, the fish is seasoned with vegetable oil, vinegar and covered with onions. All this is placed in the refrigerator. After three hours, the dish can be served on the table. However, it will be much tastier if the fish stays in the marinade until morning.
Method 2. Marinating without vinegar
It is worth saying that pickled herring can be cooked without vinegar. In this case, you need to buy fresh-frozen fish (in such a quantity that it fits in a three-liter jar), and also prepare salt (250 g), allspice and bay leaf (a few pieces), sugar (3 tbsp). The cooking process itself consists of the following steps:
- Freshly frozen fish must be thoroughly washed under running water, it does not need to be cleaned.
- Further, the fish is folded tightly into a jar, all pre-cooked ingredients are poured, everything is poured with cooled boiled water.
- The bottle is closed with a capron lid and shaken well so that the salt and sugar dissolve.
- All this will be infused at room temperature. After standing for a day, a slightly salted herring will be ready, after two days the fish will salinize more strongly.
- After full preparation, everything is placed in the refrigerator for a maximum of 10 days.
Method 3. With vinegar
What else can be a marinated herring at home? Why not learn how to cook it with vinegar? To do this, stock up on about two to three kilograms of fish, as well as brine. You can cook it from the following ingredients: water (half a liter), vinegar (30 ml), salt (100 g), spices to taste (pepper, bay leaf, etc.). You need to start cooking with the preparation of the fish. It is thawed, thoroughly washed under running water. Next, you need to boil water, pour salt and spices into it. When the brine cools down a little, vinegar is added there. Next, the fish must be folded so that the brine completely covers it. As for the pickling time, if the herring is peeled and cut into pieces, it will be ready in about 5 hours. If the fish is completely salted, it can be eaten in 12 hours.
Method 4. Dry pickling
An interesting fact for many will be the fact that pickled herring can be cooked on the principle of dry pickling. To do this, stock up on one of the following types of fish: pink salmon, silver carp, pelengas in the amount of 1 kg. The fish is cleaned, only fillets should remain, which are sprinkled with a mixture of the following ingredients: salt and sugar (1 tablespoon each), black pepper (ground - 0.5 tablespoons). The fish is mixed well, bay leaf is added, all this is put in a cool place under the press. A day later, when the fish is well salted, vegetable oil is added to it . Pickled herring without preparing brine is ready! Enjoy your meal!
Method 5. Carrot and Lemon
And one more way how to pickle herring. We will use carrot-lemon marinade. To do this, you will need the following ingredients: fish (1 pc), carrots (1 pc), half a lemon, one onion, a tablespoon of soy sauce and the same amount of vegetable oil. First, fish is prepared: it needs to be thoroughly washed and cleaned of bones so that only fillets are left. For marinade, you need to peel the onion, cut into half rings. Carrots are also peeled and grated for Korean carrots. Everything is thoroughly mixed by hands, then soy sauce is added. Slices of fish are placed in the mixture, and lemon slices cut into quarters are also added there. The dish is soaked for about 5 hours, however, for a richer taste, you can leave the fish to marinate for the whole night. Delicious herring marinated at home, ready for consumption!