Rollmops (German rolls) - traditional, with apples, with prunes

Rollmops (German rolls) - traditional, with apples, with prunes

Category: Fish dishes

Kitchen: german

Ingredients
Fresh herring (not salted)	3 pcs. large
herring marinade:
water	300 ml
vinegar 6%	100 ml
salt	3 tsp without slide
sugar	2 tbsp. l.
Bay leaf	2 pcs.
allspice peas	pieces 10
mustard peas (without them)	pieces 7
carnation	5 pieces.
1) medium apple
a tomato	1 cherry or quarter medium
medium onion	fourth
2) onions	1 small
pickle	half large or 2 gherkins
mustard	1 tsp
3) prunes	30 g
almond	40 g
butter	25 g

Cooking method

• Marinade:
• boil water, add all the ingredients except vinegar, boil for 5 minutes, remove from the stove, cool, add vinegar.
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• Peel the fish from bones. Cut the herring fillet lengthwise and beat each piece.
• I made different fillings for each herring
• 1)Rollmops with apple:
• A quarter of an apple (the rest in a jar with marinade), onion, and a tomato, chop in a blender or grate.
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• Lubricate the herring halves with this mass,
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• roll into a roll and put in a jar with small apple wedges and pour over the marinade that completely covers the rolls.
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• After 1-2 days the cooked rollmops will be ready. They can be poured with sour cream or simply overlaid with apple slices from the marinade.
• 2) Grease pieces of herring with mustard, sprinkle with an even layer of finely chopped onions, or put a few half rings of onions across the edge along with a thin slice of cucumber and roll them into rolls. Lay the rolls tightly to each other and cover with cold marinade. Place the rollmops in the cold for 2-3 days to marinate.
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• 3) I marinated the remaining 2 halves along with the previous rolls, and after a couple of days I put the following filling on them:
• prunes, almonds - chop in a blender
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• , or very finely chop with a knife, mix with softened butter. Grease the pickled herring halves and roll them as well.
• I stuffed all the rolls with four sticks of toothpicks (two at the bottom and at the top), and after cooking, I simply cut the roll in half, and there were 2 toothpicks left in each half of the roll, which turned out to be very convenient so that the rolls would not fall apart when cutting.
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• We ate rolls with boiled potatoes, in the evening by the sea, after an intense windsurfing ride ... The men were delighted with a hearty, aromatic snack. : yes
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Note

Rolmops is an interesting name, and you can't determine what kind of dish it is!
They say that the name of the food, which appeared only in the 19th century, was influenced by the fashion for decorative dogs - pugs .. Most likely because of the filling, rolled into a roll, reminiscent of a doggy dog ​​..
The appearance of this dish naturally occurred in North German cuisine, and later migrated to the Baltic countries.
And this is not surprising, since the Germans are lovers of intoxicating drinks, and for a snack there is always fish caught in the cold waters washing the north-west of Europe ... In recent centuries, it was herring that formed the basis of the diet of an average European .. And, undoubtedly, The Germans have enriched world cuisine with herring rolls - rollmops. Themselves, they say - that there is nothing tastier than rollmops, well, if only beer with sausages ..
I don’t know how to get drunk .. for the Germans, it’s like for the Russians brine is the first means to "come to your senses" after being overly drunk), but as a snack - wow, how delicious! ..