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Herring has been a staple food source since at least 3000 BC. The fish is served numerous ways, and many regional recipes are used: eaten raw, fermented, pickled, or cured by other techniques, such as being smoked as kippers. Herring are very high in the long-chain omega-3 fatty acids EPA and DHA. [128] They are a source of vitamin D. [129]
Traditionally, strömming is defined as herring caught in the brackish waters of the Baltic north of the Kalmar Strait. [1] The herring used for surströmming are caught prior to spawning in April and May. During the production of surströmming, just enough salt is used to prevent the raw herring from rotting while allowing it to ferment.
[4] [5] The taste of garum is thought to be comparable to that of today's Asian fish sauces. [6] Like modern fermented fish sauce and soy sauce, garum was a rich source of umami flavoring due to the presence of glutamates. [7] It was used along with murri in medieval Byzantine and Arab cuisine to give a savory flavor to dishes. [8] Murri may ...
Fermented fish is a traditional preservation of fish. Before refrigeration, canning and other modern preservation techniques became available, fermenting was an important preservation method. Fish rapidly spoils, or goes rotten, unless some method is applied to stop the bacteria that produce the spoilage. Fermentation is a method which attacks ...
Pickled herring with onions. Pickled herring is a traditional way of preserving herring as food by pickling or curing.. Most cured herring uses a two-step curing process: it is first cured with salt to extract water; then the salt is removed and the herring is brined in a vinegar, salt, and sugar solution, often with peppercorn, bay leaves, raw onions, and so on.
Sardines. Sardines are small epipelagic fish that sometimes migrate along the coast in large schools. They are an important forage fish for larger forms of marine life. Sardine and pilchard are common names for various species of small, oily forage fish in the herring suborder Clupeoidei. [ 2 ]
The soused herring (maatjesharing or just maatjes in Dutch, or Matjes/matjes in German and Swedish respectively) is an especially mild salt herring, which is made from young immature herrings. The herrings are ripened for a couple of days in oak barrels in a salty solution, or brine. The pancreatic enzymes which support the ripening make this ...
Osechi. Osechi-ryōri (御節料理, お節料理 or おせち) are traditional Japanese New Year foods. The tradition started in the Heian period (794–1185). [1] Osechi are easily recognizable by their special boxes called jūbako (重箱), which resemble bentō boxes. Like bentō boxes, jūbako are often kept stacked before and after use.