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Recipe: Tomato-Marinated Pickled Herring with Fennel Salad from Marine Hardware for NW Herring Week!

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Recipe: Tomato-Marinated Pickled Herring with Fennel Salad from Marine Hardware for NW Herring Week!

Tomato-Marinated Pickled Herring with Fennel Salad from Marine Hardware for Northwest Herring Week!

  • Serves: 4
  • Preparation & Cooking Time: 40 minutes
  • Marinate: 3 days

Ingredients:

  • 8 Herring filets, scaled and pin boned
  • 1 Red onion, small dice
  • 6 Tbsp. light olive oil
  • 4 tsp. sherry vinegar
  • 1/3 cup Tomato puree
  • Salt and pepper to taste
  • 1 bunch Italian parsley, finely chopped
  • 1 each Fennel bulb, thinly sliced
  • 1 Lemon, zested and reserved

Preparation:

  • Lay filets in a shallow pan or cut into pieces.
  • Mix oil, vinegar and tomato well. Season. If too thick mix with water.
  • Sprinkle onions over herring then spoon marinade over fish. Cover and refrigerate for two days. Transfer marinated fish into zip lock bags making sure seal is tight. Bring a shallow pot of water to 122 degrees and place bag in and poach for 5 minutes. Take out and put into an ice bath. Take out of bath and place into refridgerator.
  • When ready to serve, lay herring into serving bowls and sprinkle with parsley. Mix fennel with olive oil and lemon juice and zest. Season to taste. Divide and lay some fennel atop herring.
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Cold Soy Marinated Herring from Salted Sea for NW Herring Week!

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Cold Soy Marinated Herring, soy, ginger and rice wine vinegar marinade, with cucumber, pickled shallot, toasted sesame, red chili, and wonton crisps from Salted Sea for NW Herring Week!

Cold Soy Marinated Herring, soy, ginger and rice wine vinegar marinade, with cucumber, pickled shallot, toasted sesame, red chili, and wonton crisps from Salted Sea Seafood & Raw Bar for Northwest Herring Week! #nwherringweek #herring @Salted_Sea

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Smoked Alaskan Herring Pate, english cucumber, red quinoa, blueberries, pecan toast from Palace Kitchen for NW Herring Week!

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Smoked Alaskan Herring Pate, english cucumber, red quinoa, blueberries, pecan toast from Palace Kitchen for NW Herring Week!

Smoked Alaskan Herring Pate, english cucumber, red quinoa, blueberries, pecan toast from Palace Kitchen for NW Herring Week! Smooth with a capital smooth!

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Bastille Presents Smoked Herring Pate-Pernod & Herring Brandade Fritters for NW Herring Week!

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Smoked Herring Pate-Pernod/Baguette Crutes from Bastille Café & Bar for NW Herring Week!

Smoked Herring Pate-Pernod, Baguette Crutes from Bastille Café & Bar in Ballard for Northwest Herring Week!

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Herring Brandade Fritters-Artichoke Aioli from Bastille Café & Bar for NW Herring Week!

Herring Brandade Fritters-Artichoke Aioli from Bastille Café & Bar in Ballard for Northwest Herring Week!

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Recipe: 鰊と蓮根の煮物 (Herring and Lotus Root) from Shiro’s Sushi for NW Herring Week!

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鰊と蓮根の煮物 (Herring and Lotus Root) from Shiro’s Sushi for NW Herring Week!

鰊と蓮根の煮物 (Herring and Lotus Root) from Shiro’s Sushi for Northwest Herring Week! And here is how you can make this at home!

Recipe: Herring and Lotus Root from Shiro’s Sushi
(Japanese instructions below)

Ingredients:

  •  4 pcs – Herring
  • 1 – Medium size potato – peeled and cut into a bite size
  • 1 – Lotus Root (joint to joint) – peeled and cut into a bite size
  • 1 oz – Fresh Seaweed – cut in about an inch long
  • 1 inch – Fresh Ginger – peeled, sliced thinly and julienned
  • 2 cups – Dashi
  • ½ cup – Sake
  • 1 tablespoon – Mirin
  • 1 tablespoons – Light Soy Sauce

Cooking Instruction:

  1. In a medium size pot, add Dashi and Sake over high heat. Add herrings when the mixture comes to boil. Add potatoes and Lotus Roots when the mixture comes to boil again, then turn the heat to medium.
  2. When potatoes are tender enough (in about 10~15 min), skim off foam from the surface then add Mirin and Light Soy Sauce. Turn the heat down to low and cook for 5 min.
  3. Turn the heat off, add Seaweed and let it stand for a several min. (Vegetables will macerate.)
  4. Put it in a serving dish and garnish with ginger.

 

①おろしたニシン４枚を一口大に切る。（一枚４~５切れ）

じゃが芋、レンコンは皮を剥き一口大に切る。

 

②なべに出汁と酒を入れて火に掛ける。沸騰したらニシンを入れる。

再び沸騰したらじゃが芋とレンコンを入れて中火にする。

 

③10~15分でじゃが芋がやわらかくなったら灰汁を取り

みりん、薄口醤油を入れ弱火で5分。

 

④火を止めたらわかめを入れ火を止めたまま5分ほど置く。

（その間に野菜に味が染み込む。）

 

⑤皿に移し天に刻み生姜を乗せて完成。

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Togiak Herring Oshizushi from Schooner Exact for NW Herring Week!

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Togiak Herring Oshizushi from Schooner Exact for NW Herring Week!

For Northwest Herring Week, Schooner Exact Brewing Company in SoDo presents: Togiak Herring Oshizushi, lightly cured with salt, pickled with rice vinegar then torched, served atop sushi rice and shaved, marinated kelp, topped with grated ginger, scallion and ponzu sauce.

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From Stoneburner: Roasted Herring-Pimenton, Green Shallots, Chickpeas, Butter Lettuce for NW Herring Week!

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Roasted Herring-Pimenton, Green Shallots, Chickpeas, Butter Lettuce from Stoneburner for NW Herring Week!

Herring with a Southern Mediterranean flare: Roasted Herring-Pimenton, Green Shallots, Chickpeas, Butter Lettuce from Stoneburner for Northwest Herring Week! Boom!

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Wow! Salt and vinegar cured herring, sea bean relish, seaweed gremolata from Joule for NW Herring Week!

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Salt and vinegar cured herring, sea bean relish, seaweed gremolata from Joule for NW Herring Week!

Salt and vinegar cured herring, sea bean relish, seaweed gremolata from Joule for Northwest Herring Week! Because we care, we did quality control on this one. If you want to try Togiak, Alaska herring in its purist form, this dish is for you!

 

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Recipe: Basic Brines from Old Ballard Liquor Co.

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Freshly filleted Togiak herring for Northwest Herring Week at the North Pacific Seafoods plant in Naknek, Alaska, on Bristol Bay.

If you would like to try your hand at preparing herring at home, it is available from several Seattle retailers as fillets.

All small, delicious, nutritious oily fish like sardines, anchovies, smelt and herring have small pin bones that are not easily removed by filleting, but these bones are not unsafe to eat. It’s more a texture/psychology issue for eaters. Because Togiak, Alaska herring are larger than most, their pin bones are a little larger, too. If you have an issue with these little bones, we recommend that you marinate your herring in an acidic brine before you proceed with the rest of your recipe. Here are two such brine recipes from Old Ballard Liquor Co.

Basic Bone Softening Brine:

  • 1 Cup Distilled White Vinegar
  • 1/2 Cup Water
  • 1/4 Cup Lemon Juice

Brine fillets for 2-3 hours, then pour off brine.

(Optional) At this point, if you would like to remove the vinegar taste from the fish before moving forward with your recipe, soak the brined fillets in ice water for 30 minutes, change the water and soak for another 30.

Tasty smoking/marinade brine:

  • 1 cup apple cider vinegar
  • 1/2 cup pickling salt
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 teaspoon juniper berries
  • 1 teaspoon allspice berries
  • 1/2 teaspoon whole white peppercorns
  • 6 cups of ice cubes

Add all ingredients to a pan and bring to a boil, then turn the heat off and allow to steep for 30 minutes.  Add the ice cubes to chill the brine. When brine is fully cool, brine the fillets for 2-3 hours.