February 2004 recipe

Fish balls

Let’s soften 500 gr of smoked herrings in one litre of milk for 5 minutes. Then remove the milk and clean the herrings.
Let’sbrown three minced onions in a pan in gr 50 of butter,   add gr 600 of boiled and cut potatoes and mash all together like a purče.
Flavour with minced parsley, grated nutmeg, salt and pepper.
Add the minced herrings and let rest in the refrigerator for at least one hour.

Now make with the mixture some little balls, cover them with flour, put them in beaten egg and then in breadcrumbs.
Now fry them in extra virgin olive oil for about 3 minutes.

Serve them with raw spinaches chopped and flavoured with extra virgin olive oil, salt, pepper and lemon juice. .

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