Lithuanian vegetable salad with herring

Lithuanian vegetable salad with herring

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A traditional Lithuanian salad: cooked potatoes, carrots, apple, onion, cornichons, and pickled herring, all bound together with a mustard and vinegar may…

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This dish is a combination of cooked vegetables, enriched with butter, mayonnaise, and vinegar. It’s a real treat for the taste buds!

Ingredients and directions

  • Prep time15 min
  • Cook time20 min
  • Resting5 min
  • Total40 min
  • DifficultyEasy
  • CostBudget
  • Cooking methodNo cooking required
  • Estimated cost$5.44 $1.36 / serving Estimated price; varies by store. Converted from euros at the ECB rate of October 15, 2026.

Ingredients

4 people
  • $1.34
  • $0.68
  • $0.39
  • $0.35
  • $0.21
  • $0.80
  • $1.27
  • $0.02
  • $0.27
  • $0.11

Prices from US supermarkets for 6 of 10 ingredients; Belgian prices for the rest.

Directions

  1. First, cook the apples and carrots, then chop them into small pieces.
  2. Chop the onion. ≈ 8 min
  3. Cut the pickles, apple, and herring into small sticks. ≈ 8 min
  4. Combine all ingredients with mayonnaise, adding mustard, salt, pepper, and vinegar. ≈ 4 min
  5. Serve with hard-boiled egg slices. ≈ 2 min

The bill

Lithuanian vegetable salad with herring

  • 100 g of herring$1.34
  • Two garden apples$0.68
  • 1 carrot$0.39
  • One apple$0.35
  • 1 onion$0.21
  • 2 hard-boiled eggs$0.80
  • 150 g of mayonnaise$1.27
  • 1 tablespoon of vinegar$0.02
  • salt, pepper$0.27
  • mustard$0.11

Total$5.44

that's $1.36 per person

Estimated price; varies by store.

Before you start

Ingredients

  • 100 g of herring
  • Two garden apples
  • 1 carrot
  • One apple
  • 1 onion
  • 2 fermented, lacto-fermented cornichons
  • 2 hard-boiled eggs
  • 150 g of mayonnaise
  • 1 tablespoon of vinegar
  • salt, pepper
  • mustard

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