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Stekt strömming or fried Baltic herring is one of hundreds of recipes based on the smaller-sized eastern relative of the North Sea herring. Swedes often say that Baltic herring is better the fatter it is, but the truth is perhaps that all Baltic herring tastes good. Some people prefer to fry the filets laid together with parsley between them. Others want the backbone to stay in. But no one talks about frying Baltic herring in anything but butter.
Freshly fried Baltic herring tastes especially good on top of buttered hard crispbread. But there is certainly nothing wrong about eating them with fluffy mashed potatoes generously sprinkled with chopped parsley.
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Innkeeper Emeritus Carl Jan Granqvist selected the dishes. Journalist and author Lena Katarina Swanberg wrote the texts.
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