Serves: 6 - 8

This pretty, pale pink salad — an old family recipe — is but one of a whole genre of Ashkenazi salads made with herring, fruit and vegetables — even nuts — bound with a sour cream sauce. Crisp, sweet yet tart apples are a perfect foil for pickled herrings (rollmops) in a creamy sweet and sour dressing

Apples are high in pectin, a soluble fibre that’s great for gut health, and vitamin C that helps boost immunity and healing, while herring is a good source of omega-3 and vitamin D for a healthy immune system. For a vegetarian version, replace the rollmops with 125g seedless grapes.

Keeps: 2 days in the fridge

Salad only: 240 calories 21g carbs per serving; Dressing: 48 calories, 2g carbs per serving

Ingredients

Name: Healthy herring and apple salad
Yield: 6 - 8
Ingredients: 450g jar rollmops (pickled herrings) 2 Braeburn or similar crisp, flavourful eating apples 4 stalks celery For the dressing 1 tbsp chopped fresh dill 275 ml lower fat soured cream 1 tsp white wine vinegar ½ tsp Dijon mustard To serve: 50g toasted pecans/walnuts Sprigs of dill

450g jar rollmops (pickled herrings)

2 Braeburn or similar crisp, flavourful eating apples

4 stalks celery

For the dressing

1 tbsp chopped fresh dill

275 ml lower fat soured cream

1 tsp white wine vinegar

½ tsp Dijon mustard

To serve:

50g toasted pecans/walnuts

Sprigs of dill