Häckerle with fried potatoes and cucumber salad

Name: Häckerle with fried potatoes and cucumber salad
Cook time: 1 h 15 min
Total time: 1 h 15 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 800 g waxy potatoes (e.g. Linda); 6 herring fillets (approx. 75 g each); 2 medium-sized onions; 1 sour apple (e.g. Cox Orange); 1 Gherkin; 2 TABLESPOONS Lemon juice; 7-10 Tbsp salt and pepper; 7-10 Tbsp Sugar; 1 Cucumber; 3 TABLESPOONS White wine vinegar; 2 TABLESPOONS Oil; 3-4 Stem(s) Dill; 50 g streaky smoked bacon; 2 TABLESPOONS clarified butter

AUTHOR
Xavier Baldwin

DIFFICULTY
very easy

RATING

COOK TIME
75 mins

TOTAL TIME
75 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 4

800 g waxy potatoes (e.g. Linda)
6 herring fillets (approx. 75 g each)
2 medium-sized onions
1 sour apple (e.g. Cox Orange)
1 Gherkin
2 TABLESPOONS Lemon juice
7-10 Tbsp salt and pepper
7-10 Tbsp Sugar
1 Cucumber
3 TABLESPOONS White wine vinegar
2 TABLESPOONS Oil
3-4 Stem(s) Dill
50 g streaky smoked bacon
2 TABLESPOONS clarified butter

Directions

1
Cover potatoes with skin and boil in water for about 20 minutes.
2
In the meantime, cut off the tail fins of the matie fillets for chopping. Rinse the matie fillets, dab dry and chop finely. Peel the onions. Wash, quarter and core the apple. Finely dice apple, 1 onion and gherkin.
3
Mix everything with lemon juice and season with little salt and pepper.
4
Drain the potatoes, rinse with cold water and peel. Leave to cool.
5
For the cucumber salad peel the cucumber and slice or cut it into thin slices. Mix vinegar, salt, pepper and 1/2-1 teaspoon sugar. Fold in the oil. Wash the dill, dab dry, finely chop and stir in.
6
Mix with cucumber.
7
Dice the bacon. Cut remaining onion into thin rings. Cut the potatoes into slices. Fry the bacon in a large pan without fat until crispy. Fry the onion briefly and remove everything. Heat lard in bacon fat.
8
Fry the potatoes for about 20 minutes while turning. Season with salt and pepper. Add the bacon mixture again. Arrange chopped meat with fried potatoes and cucumber salad.