Delicious salted herring at home

Kitchen appliances and utensils:

• deep dish;
• pan;
• plastic bottle;
• kitchen surface for cooking;
• kitchen knife;
• board for cutting fish;
• serving dish.

Ingredients

Step cooking

1. You can fill the herring whole or cut it into pieces. Before salting, it is better to cut off the head of the fish and rip open the belly, removing all the insides from it. Thus, the herring is marinated faster.
   
2. First, we are preparing marinade for herring. To do this, pour 2 tbsp into a deep bowl. l salt. It is possible to use regular salt or iodized, but extra salt is not recommended.
   
3. Add 5 bay leaves, 1/3 tsp to the bowl. allspice and 15 peas of black pepper.
   
4. All ingredients are thoroughly mixed. Pour a liter of water into a separate pot and put on a fire, waiting until it boils. Salt with spices pour boiling water.
   
5. It is recommended to make marinade with coriander, due to which the herring acquires a rich taste. For 2 fish, 15 peas or 1/3 tsp are required. ground coriander. It is already added to hot water. Mix well until the salt is completely dissolved. Leave the marinade to cool.
   
6. We will fill the herring in a plastic bottle. A liter bottle is suitable, the top of which is cut off. In the bottle we lower 2 carcasses of herring, placing them with tails up.
   
7. Pour the marinade into a plastic bottle so that it completely covers the whole herring. Instead of a plastic bottle, it is possible to grease the fish in any other vessel.
   
8. Close the herring with a lid and leave it to be salted for 2-3 days. It is recommended to put the fish in a cool place, it is possible to place it in the refrigerator. If you get herring after 2-3 days, it will turn out to be medium-salted. It is possible to eat fish in a day, but then it will turn out to be slightly salted.
   
9. Before serving, salted herring can be cut into fillets and cut into small pieces. It is also possible to serve fish with fresh or vinegar pickled in vinegar. It is possible to sprinkle prepared herring with fresh dill, parsley or chopped green onions. Any side dish, especially mashed potatoes, is suitable for fish.
   

Video recipe

After watching the video, you will learn how to deliciously and simply pickle herring in a plastic bottle or any other vessel. A detailed description of each cooking step is given, so you should not have additional questions in the process of salting the fish. All the necessary spices and spices that add herring aroma and rich taste are indicated.

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