Kipper Fillets with Butter

What is it?

Smoked herring fillets come frozen with a butter pat, usually for baking or grilling from chilled after thawing. Kippers are split fish that’s been cured, smoked, and packed as fillets, so you get a firm, oily texture and a strong savoury flavour. Young’s Seafood uses the same basic format here as its other frozen fish lines, but this one leans on a traditional British breakfast ingredient rather than battered or breadcrumbed fish. The butter is meant to melt over the flesh as it heats, softening the smoke a little and adding richness.