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Siļķe ar Biezpienu

Name: Siļķe ar Biezpienu
Total time: 30 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Latvia
Ingredients: 200g Salted herring; 250g Cottage Cheese; 100g Sour cream; 3 Green Onion; A pinch Dill; 8 (small) Potato; 1/4 Red Onion; A pinch Salt

Main Dish

⏱ 30 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Salted herring with herbed cottage cheese and boiled potatoes — a Latvian classic.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

On the Baltic coast, salted herring is indispensable on the Latvian everyday table. Siļķe ar biezpienu is the simple combination of herring and cottage cheese mixed with sour cream and herbs, eaten with new potatoes boiled in their skins — especially loved in summer new-potato season.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a country house in a Latvian summer, a pot of boiled new potatoes, herring, and white herbed cheese sit on a wooden table.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Salted herring 200g
Cottage Cheese 250g
Sour cream 100g
Green Onion 3
Dill A pinch
Potato 8 (small)
Red Onion 1/4
Salt A pinch

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Boil the potatoes in their skins in salted water.
Mix the cottage cheese and sour cream and add chopped green onion, dill, and salt.
Cut the herring into manageable pieces.
Slice the red onion thinly and lay over the herring.
Serve the boiled potatoes, cheese, and herring together.

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