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Stuffed Baked Herring Fillets

Often overlooked these days, the humble herring is a fantastic fish to eat and cook.
This recipe takes advantage of fresh herring fillets,
a simple tasty stuffing and a great fish meal recipe.

You will need for 4 people

8 Herrings (usually allow 2 herrings per person people) filleted. These can be skinned or not. Purely a personal choice whether you like herring skin!
Butter (about a tablespoon)
1 small onion finely chopped
2 hard boiled free range eggs (finely chopped)
1 clove of garlic finely chopped or crushed
3 tablespoons of chopped parsley
1 teaspoon finely chopped fresh thyme
2 slices of white bread, crust removed and soaked in a little milk
Lemon Juice and Black pepper to taste

Method

Heat oven to 190c (or 179c fan oven)

Gently fry the onion in hot butter for about 5 minutes + until onion is softened and translucent.

In a bowl:

Squeeze the milk out of the soaked bread, shred the bread and place in bowl. Add all the other ingredients and combine well (with a fork or fingers) to form a crumbly paste.

In a buttered oven dish place one herring fillet skin side down. Top this with stuffing and place another fillet skin side up, forming a sandwich with the herring fillets. Repeat with the remainder of fillets.

Bake in preheated oven for about 20 minutes. Check with a skewer fish is done and baste with juices to keep moist. Cooking time will obviously depend on size and thickness of the fillets.