Lightly salted herring at home with pickled onions

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Prepare the products, choose a bigger, fat herring. It's good if the "boys" get caught. This time I had OLYUTORSKAYA.

2. Step 2:

   

   First, prepare and cut the onion into half rings, not very thinly, about 0.4 cm .

3. Step 3:

   

   Prepare the marinade so that the onion has time to stand while we clean the herring. Separate the onion feathers by placing them in a free bowl. Add 3h.l. sugar, an incomplete tsp. salt, pepper, pour 1-2st.l. vinegar 9%, then zst.l. vegetable oil without odor. Stir and leave to marinate for 20-30 minutes.

4. Step 4:

   

   I don't add water to the marinade, a good onion will let in enough juice by itself.

5. Step 5:

   

   Filleting fish: - Cut off the head. The abdomen is 0.5 cm from the caudal fin. Clean the insides, rinse under cool water, well remove the remnants of the film from the abdomen. Dry with a towel and make a shallow incision along the back, trimming the fin from both sides, also along the abdomen to the tail.

7. Step 6:

   

   Remove the upper and tail fins. Gently pick up and remove the skin, It is more convenient for me from the head, but it is also possible from the tail, then the tail is cut off./If the skin is removed badly, help easily by cutting with a knife. With high-quality, fresh fish, the skin is removed very easily /.

8. Step 7:

   

   Then remove the ridge - run your thumb along the incision of the back, using the tip of the knife to help release the large bones, then easily pull the ridge, it will easily separate from the carcass.Also do with the second half, we get two fillets. Carefully remove all the bones, helping with tweezers.

9. Step 8:

   

   With a sharp knife, cut the fillet diagonally, 1.5-2cm wide or larger, it's up to your taste.

10. Step 9:

    

    In a jar of 0.720 we put the chopped fillet in layers alternating with pickled onions, pour 4-5st.L. vegetable oil. If you like pickled herring, add the whole marinade from the onion, then pour the oil to the top. Close the lid, store in the refrigerator.

11. Step 10:

    

    You can serve immediately, very tasty with potatoes in any version. As an appetizer, in addition to the onion, it is supplemented with a crispy cucumber, mushrooms, olives and olives.. Spread on a large dish or in a herring bowl.