Lightly salted mackerel or home-salted herring is a tasty and simple recipe.
Lightly salted fish of fatty varieties, especially in winter, is useful for everyone to eat. Using this recipe for homemade salted mackerel, you can make delicious fish yourself. Cooking in brine is easy to do yourself; you don’t need any special skills or knowledge for this.
Preparation begins with the need to stock up on 2 kg of frozen or fresh fish.
Mackerel brine includes:
— water — 1 liter;
- salt - 5 tablespoons;
— sugar — 3 tablespoons;
- laurel leaf - 6 pieces;
- dry mustard - 1 teaspoon;
— allspice black pepper (peas) — 1 piece;
- cloves - 1 piece.
How to make lightly salted mackerel at home.
We thoroughly clean the fish, remove the entrails and black film, and rinse.
The next important step is to prepare the whole mackerel brine.
It's very easy to do. Pour water into a saucepan, when it boils, throw in all the spices, after a few minutes turn it off and cool with a lid.
Pour the spicy brine into a container with whole cleaned fish and let it salt for 3-5 days in a cool place.
If you do not eat lightly salted fish right away, then save it after the required time for salting in the refrigerator.
Homemade lightly salted mackerel is a delicious appetizer. Everyone knows that fish is especially good if served with hot boiled potatoes.
Using this simple homemade recipe, you can pickle fresh or frozen herring at home in the same way.
See also video: Lightly salted mackerel using the dry method.
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