🇳🇱 How to Make Broodje Haring

Craving Broodje Haring? On FoodNeverComes the food never actually comes — so here's how to make real Broodje Haring at home, in about 10 min, with stuff you probably already have.

🛒 Ingredients

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• 1 Hollandse Nieuwe herring, filleted and cleaned
• 1 soft white bun (or eat it without)
• 2 tbsp finely diced raw onion
• sliced gherkin
• a Dutch flag cocktail pick, for accuracy

👩‍🍳 Method

1. Buy the herring already cured — 'Hollandse Nieuwe' is matjes herring cured in a light salt brine with its own enzymes, and this is not a home project.
2. Keep it properly cold until the moment it is served. Herring at room temperature is a different and worse thing.
3. Check the fillet for the small bones along the back and pull the tail skin off if it is still attached.
4. Dice the onion very fine. Coarse onion overwhelms it.
5. Either lay the fillet in a split bun with onion and gherkin, or do it the Rotterdam way: hold it by the tail, tip your head back and lower it in whole.
6. Eat it standing at the stall. The season opens in June with the first barrel auctioned for charity, and the fish genuinely is better in the first weeks.