Do you like rollmops? So better do it yourself!
It's so much better and so easy to make!
I know because my grandmother gave me her express recipe for homemade rollmops.
A delight ! Did you know that it is a great classic of vinegar cooking?
In general, it takes 3 days of marinating to obtain pickled herring.
They become the famous rollmops (i.e. "roll them up") when they are rolled up on themselves. But this is not an essential step.
Here is a family recipe that is very easy and quick to make, as we like them at home. Watch:
1. Choose about twenty very fresh and very shiny herrings.
2. Ask your fishmonger to prepare them for you in fillets. Have him cut off his head, tail and fins and remove the bones.
3. Put your clean, well-washed and dried fillets in an oven dish, next to each other.
4. In a saucepan, heat 20 cl of white wine.
5. Add 20 cl of wine vinegar to the saucepan.
6. Add a finely chopped onion and carrot.
7. Add thin slices of organic lemon.
8. Add a bunch of chopped fresh parsley.
9. Add a sprig of thyme, a sprig of tarragon and two bay leaves.
10. Boil the mixture for 10 minutes:the marinade should make small bubbles.
11. Pour this boiling marinade over the fish fillets in the oven dish.
12. Cover with aluminum foil and leave to cool.
13. Put in the fridge for 24 hours.
There you go, your homemade rollmops are ready to eat :-)
In less than 1/4 hour (not counting the cooling time), you get rollmops that are much better than any rollmops on the market!
They can easily be kept for 1 week in the fridge, with their marinade.
These rollmops prepared with fresh products are a delight, but the little thing more, is that they are really economical.
These homemade rollmops are much cheaper than store-bought ones.
So that your fishmonger has time to prepare the herring fillets for you, avoid going there on a Friday morning or a Saturday.
That's where the most people are. It is better that your fishmonger has more time to prepare them quietly.
