Salad "Herring under a fur coat" has been known for a long time, but almost never bothers. It is an invariable attribute of any holiday table, especially New Year's. The most famous and revered traditional version of the salad is "Herring under a fur coat."
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You will need
- • potatoes -2 pcs
- • herring - 1-2 halves (fillet) of herring
- • onions - 1-2 pcs.
- • chicken eggs - 2 pcs.
- • beets - 2-3 pcs.
- • 1-2 carrots
- • mayonnaise 5-7 tbsp. l
Instruction manual
1
Cooking begins with boiling vegetables. Light vegetables (carrots and potatoes) are boiled in a separate pan from beets. The approximate cooking time of vegetables is 30-40 minutes. Boiled vegetables in a peel, "in uniform".
2
While vegetables are boiled, boiled chicken eggs in salted water and peel onions. Herring fillets are freed from the seeds, leaving only the smallest. Cut herring into small pieces with a knife. Chop onions finely and finely, on a medium grater, separately rub the vegetables: potatoes, carrots, beets.
3
After all the vegetables and fish are ready, begin to collect the salad. The principle of assembling the salad "Herring under a fur coat" is easy to remember: vegetables are laid from light to dark. A layer of herring, onion is spread on the dish, a little grease the resulting layer with mayonnaise making a mesh. Then spread the boiled potatoes, chopped eggs, grated boiled carrots and beets.
Do not forget to accompany each layer of vegetables with a thin mesh of mayonnaise. The top layer of the herring under the fur coat is always beetroot, on top of the salad pour plenty of mayonnaise and let it brew.
note
The salad is not salted, because thanks to herring and mayonnaise, the right amount of salt will be present in it.
Useful advice
• In order for the beets to cook faster, you can use the culinary trick: boil the beets for 30-40 minutes, and then pour very cold water. With this method, beets quickly reach the desired softness.
• For salad, it is better to use slightly salted ready-made fillet. In this case, the salad turns out to be especially tender, aromatic and tasty.