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Herring Cocktail "Fisherman"

4 servings

Ingredients

• 0.5 Stk Gherkin
• 1 Stk apple
• Young green beans (cooked) (nach Bedarf)
• Matjes herring fillets (nach Bedarf)
• herring fillets in consommé (nach Bedarf)
• Mayonnaise (nach Bedarf)
• White wine (nach Bedarf)
• sour cream (nach Bedarf)
• Horseradish (freshly grated) (nach Bedarf)
• 1 Stk Ice disc
• Caviar (nach Bedarf)
• Tomato ketchup (nach Bedarf)
• Pearl onions (preserved) (nach Bedarf)

Instructions

1. Peel half a pickled cucumber and an apple, cut both into small cubes.
2. Cook princess beans until firm and cut them into small cubes.
3. Layer the cucumber, apple, and bean cubes in a narrow champagne glass.
4. Cut Matjes and bouillon herring fillets into strips and arrange them in a lattice pattern on top.
5. For the sauce, mix mayonnaise with white wine, sour cream and a little grated horseradish, and pour over the cocktail.
6. Finally, place an ice disc with caviar on top and arrange pearl onions covered with tomato ketchup as garnish around the glass.

Based on a cookbook by Hans Hofer (1964), adapted with AI.