Harengs à la Livonienne (Smoked Herring Salad Moulded as a Herring)
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- fine smoked herrings
- cooked potatoes
- reinette apples
- parsley
- chervil
- tarragon
- fennel
- oil
- vinegar
Instructions
- Lift the fillets from fine smoked herrings, reserving the heads and the tails.
- Skin the fillets and cut them into dice.
- Add the same quantity of diced cooked potato and of diced reinette apple.
- Season with chopped parsley, chervil, tarragon and fennel, and dress with oil and vinegar.
- Arrange the salad in the shape of a herring.
- Put a head and a tail back on each imitated herring.