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Hollandse Nieuwe Haring

Name: Hollandse Nieuwe Haring
Total time: 10 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Netherlands
Ingredients: 4 Salted herring; 1 Onion; 4 Cucumber pickles; To taste Rye bread

Side Dish

⏱ 10 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Lightly salted raw herring with onion and pickles, eaten whole by the tail — a Dutch early-summer tradition.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Haring is lightly salted raw herring, a Dutch national food. The first fatty catch of late May and June is called 'Hollandse Nieuwe,' and its opening day is marked with celebrations. The traditional way is to hold it by the tail above your face, dip it in chopped onion, and bite into it whole.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At an Amsterdam stall in early summer, people hold herring up by the tail, tilt their heads back, and take a big bite.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Salted herring 4
Onion 1
Cucumber pickles 4
Rye bread To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Pat the herring dry with paper towels.
Mince the onion very finely.
Slice the pickles.
Arrange the herring on a plate with the onion and pickles.
Hold by the tail, dip in onion, look up, and bite in.
It's also good cut into pieces on rye bread.

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