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Pickled herring salad with potatoes and pickles

Name: Pickled herring salad with potatoes and pickles
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 2 h 50 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Slovak
Ingredients: 400 g Rollmops (pickled herring rolls) (drained, without the pickling liquid); 500 g Potatoes; 4 Pickles (sour gherkins); 1 Onion; 150 g Mayonnaise; 150 g Plain yogurt; 1 tsp Mustard; to taste Salt; to taste Ground black pepper

Pickled herring, boiled potatoes, pickles, and onion tossed in a mayonnaise, yogurt, and mustard dressing. Serve chilled. Serves 6.

Slovak cuisine · Christmas Eve dinner recipes · Translated from Slovak · October 24, 2026

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Recipe at a glance

Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 2 hr 50 min
Servings: 6 servings
Difficulty: Easy
Cuisine: Slovak

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This chilled salad combines rollmops (pickled herring rolls), boiled potatoes, pickles, and onion with mayonnaise and yogurt. In many Slovak families, it is served on Christmas Eve or New Year's Eve with bread or alongside fried carp. Let it chill in the refrigerator for at least two hours before serving.

Ingredients

6 servings

Rollmops (pickled herring rolls) (drained, without the pickling liquid) 400 g
Potatoes 500 g
Pickles (sour gherkins) 4
Onion 1
Mayonnaise 150 g
Plain yogurt 150 g
Mustard 1 tsp
Salt to taste
Ground black pepper to taste

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Instructions

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Boil the potatoes
40 min
Wash the potatoes and boil them with their skins on until tender, about 25 minutes. Drain, let cool, and peel.
Prepare the rollmops
10 min
Remove the rollmops from the pickling liquid, let drain, and remove the toothpicks. Cut the fish and the onion inside the rolls into small pieces.
Chop the vegetables
10 min
Dice the potatoes, finely dice the pickles, and finely chop the onion.
Make the dressing
Mix the mayonnaise with the yogurt and mustard, then season with salt and pepper. Add salt sparingly, as the rollmops are already salty.
Chill the salad
2 hr
Gently toss all the ingredients with the dressing so the potatoes do not fall apart. Cover the salad and refrigerate for at least 2 hours.

Tip: For a milder flavor, soak the rollmops in cold water for 10 minutes before cutting them up. The salad keeps in the refrigerator for two days.

Nutrition facts

Approximate values per serving, calculated from the ingredients

Energy: 381 kcal
Protein: 12 g
Carbohydrates: 21 g
of which sugars: 6.2 g
Fat: 28 g
of which saturates: 5.3 g
Fiber: 2.5 g
Salt: 2.8 g

Calculated from the raw ingredients, without frying oil. Where an amount is “to taste”, typical amounts are used. Food composition: USDA FoodData Central and product labels.

This recipe was translated from the Slovak original: Rybací šalát zo zavináčov s cibuľou a kyslou uhorkou