herring salad

Ingredients for 6 servings:

• 1 m.-sized salted herring(s)
• 5 potatoes, boiled
• 5 carrots, cooked
• 4 beetroot, cooked
• 2 apples
• 1 gherkin(s) or pickled cucumber
• 100 g meat, cooked or sausage in small cubes
• 1 small onion(s), grated
• Pepper, white
• Parsley
• chives
• 100 ml cream
• Sugar
• Vinegar

Instructions

Working time approx. 45 minutes; Total time approx. 45 minutes

for the Finnish Christmas meal

The herring (possibly soaked) is gutted, skinned, and boned. All ingredients are cut into small cubes, mixed, and seasoned. Serve with spicy whipped cream. This salad is part of the Finnish Christmas feast as an appetizer and is eaten with boiled potatoes and buttered bread. The salad is garnished in various ways according to taste (radishes, roots, cucumbers, hard-boiled, chopped eggs, etc.).