Fresh, quick, and delightful Smoked Herring, Apple, and Tomato Salad, a no-cook dish perfect even for those on vacation, with just 4 ingredients you can have a ready and delicious meal to impress everyone.
A Nordic dish but well-known and prepared in Veneto, the apple and smoked herring salad is enriched with fresh salad greens for a touch of color and extra flavor.
Herring is a very economical, nutritious fish and rich in Omega 3, widely used in Venetian cuisine and beyond. Combined with green apples in this case, they complement each other perfectly, balancing the very salty flavor of smoked herrings.
Everything is dressed with lemon juice, which tones down the saltiness of the herring, making it a crowd-pleaser.
- Difficulty: Very easy
- Cost: Very economical
- Rest time: 8 Hours
- Preparation time: 15 Minutes
- Portions: 2 People
- Cooking methods: No cooking required
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: All seasons
- Energy 788.95 (Kcal)
- Carbohydrates 41.89 (g) of which sugars 20.21 (g)
- Proteins 56.14 (g)
- Fat 43.40 (g) of which saturated 10.45 (g)of which unsaturated 17.74 (g)
- Fibers 6.57 (g)
- Sodium 1,917.29 (mg)
Indicative values for a portion of 425 g processed in an automated way starting from the nutritional information available on the CREA* and FoodData Central** databases. It is not food and / or nutritional advice.
* CREATES Food and Nutrition Research Center: https://www.crea.gov.it/alimenti-e-nutrizione https://www.alimentinutrizione.it ** U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. FoodData Central, 2019. https://fdc.nal.usda.gov
Ingredients for Smoked Herring, Apple, and Tomato Salad
- 14 oz smoked herring (fillets)
- 1 green apple
- 2 plum tomatoes
- to taste lamb's lettuce (or other small leaf greens)
- 2 cloves garlic
- 2 tablespoons chopped parsley
- 1 cup milk (to soak the herring)
- 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 3 tablespoons lemon juice
Steps
Soak the fillets of herring in milk, keeping them in the fridge for at least 8 hours.
This step helps reduce the saltiness typical of smoked herrings.
Rinse the herring fillets well, dry them with kitchen paper, and place them in a glass bowl.
Make an emulsion with extra-virgin olive oil, lemon juice, the garlic sliced, and parsley, and drizzle over the fillets.
Let them marinate for at least 1 hour.
Cut the apple into very thin slices, slice the tomatoes, wash and dry the salad greens.
Assemble the herring salad by draining the fillets from the oil and cutting them into pieces.
On a serving plate arrange the green salad, top with tomatoes, apple slices, and smoked herring, drizzle with the marinade, and sprinkle with additional parsley.
Storage, Tips, and Variations
It’s best to eat the prepared smoked herring on the same day, otherwise the tomatoes and salad will lose their freshness.
Do not salt the salad, as the herring is already quite salty.
To add more crunch, you can add your choice of nuts like walnuts.
You can replace lamb’s lettuce with your preferred salad greens as long as they’re small-sized; otherwise, chop them into pieces.
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