This wonderful salad has been a traditional festive dish for many years on a par with such dishes as Olivier and the cold. Each landlady has her own manner and recipe for cooking "Herring under a fur coat." Someone likes to simply cut vegetables, someone - to grate. One way or another, this salad is completely owned by Russian women who, even in difficult times when there were no food on the shelves, could cover the festive table with a bunch of potatoes, carrots and beets, and only a little of the scarce that could be got. We will tell you about the most delicious ways of making "Herring under the fur coat".
Classical "Herring under the fur coat"
Ingredients:
- fillet of herring - 500 g;
- beet - 2 pcs .;
- potatoes - 3 pcs .;
- carrots - 1 piece;
- eggs - 3 pieces;
- apple - 1 piece;
- onion - 1 piece;
- mayonnaise - 400 g.
Preparation
Before the preparation of the onion marinate, so that it does not much bitter. To do this, finely chop it and for 15 minutes, pour water with a tablespoon of vinegar. Beetroot, carrots, potatoes and eggs boil, cool and clean. In order to make the salad softer, all the ingredients except for the apple, grate on a fine grater. It is better to rub an apple on a large grater. Cut the fish fillets into small cubes. Start spreading layers of lettuce, not forgetting to coat each layer with mayonnaise. At the bottom lay the potatoes, then the herring and onions. Next comes carrots, an apple, eggs, beets. The last layer of beetroot is well mixed with mayonnaise and decorated with crushed egg yolk. Here is a recipe for preparing a classic salad "Herring under a fur coat."
"Herring under the fur coat" with gelatin
Ingredients:
- fillet of herring - 400 g;
- beet - 2 pcs .;
- potatoes - 3 pcs .;
- carrots - 1 piece;
- eggs - 3 pieces;
- mayonnaise - 350 g;
- gelatin - 15 g;
- parsley.
Preparation
To make this salad, peel the potatoes and carrots first and cook them, adding half the onion, bay leaf and a little salt with pepper to the water. After cooking vegetables, about 300 ml of broth pour into a mug and pour gelatin into it for swelling. Beetroot in a separate saucepan. Vegetables and eggs, grate on a large grater. When the gelatin swells, pour ¼ broth with another container, and in the remaining broth add mayonnaise and stir well. Add evenly the broth with mayonnaise in all the ingredients except finely chopped herring. Punch the parsley and place on the bottom of a specially prepared form. Then take turns laying the layers, giving each to freeze for about 45 minutes in the refrigerator - half a beet, half a potato, carrots, eggs. Lay out the herring and fill it with the remaining broth with gelatin. This layer should stand for about an hour and a half, so it's better to freeze. The last lay out the remains of potatoes and beets. Leave the salad overnight in the fridge.
Vegetarian "Herring under the fur coat"
Even the most delicious "Herring under a fur coat" may not appeal to everyone. After all, not all people like fish. In such cases, there is a vegetarian salad. "Herring under the fur coat" is difficult to name because of the absence of herring, but due to its similarity, it is still called the vegetarian "herring under the fur coat".
Ingredients:
- potatoes - 4 pcs .;
- carrots - 2 pieces;
- red onions - 1 pc .;
- sea kale;
- mayonnaise (without eggs) - 350 g;
- vegetable oil - 2 tbsp. spoons.
Preparation
Vegetables boil, and peel off the skin. Carrots and potatoes grate on a large grater, and finely chop the onions. Lay out layers, greasing mayonnaise, potatoes, onions, then cabbage watering it with oil instead of mayonnaise, then carrots, potatoes and beets. If the sea kale is not very salty, then you can pour some vegetables. Top with beetroot mayonnaise and decorate it on your own.