What Is Herring roe and How Can I Use It?

If herring roe has turned up in a recipe or caught your eye at the store, here's what you need to use it with confidence and how to choose it, cook it, store it, what to substitute, and 3 recipes to try it in.

In Chinese:: 鲱鱼子
British (UK) term:: Herring roe
en français:: rogue de hareng
en español:: huevas de arenque

Recipes using herring roe

There are 3 recipes that contain this ingredient.

Menai Pride Mussels

Menai Pride mussels pate baked in a bain-marie with herring roe, brandy, double cream, and egg yolks. A traditional Welsh seafood starter served with toast fingers.

Pate Cregyn Gleision Mucai (Menai Pride Mussels)

Welsh mussel pate with herring roe, brandy, cream, and dill, baked in a bain-marie until set. A rich, briny seafood starter from the Menai Strait served on toast fingers.