In times of food shortages, I wanted to serve a delicious and unusual dish made from available ingredients to the festive table. As a result of experiments, the salad "Herring under a fur coat" appeared, which soon began to be considered a traditional holiday treat. Today, when there is an abundance of various products, many Russians do not forget about herring under a fur coat and prepare it not only as a festive, but also an everyday dish.
It is necessary
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- 1 salted herring
- 4 medium potatoes
- 2 medium beets
- 1 large carrot
- 1 onion
- 3 hard boiled eggs
- 1-2 sour apples
- large pack of mayonnaise
- vegetable oil
Instructions
Step 1
Boil potatoes, carrots and beets until tender. It is better to cook the beets separately so that they do not paint over the rest of the vegetables. Boil potatoes in their skins. When the vegetables have cooled, peel them and rub on a fine grater. Eggs also peel and grate. Save 1 egg yolk to garnish the salad.
Step 2
Chop the onion finely, pour boiling water over it and let stand for 10 minutes. Drain off the hot water and rinse the onion with cool water. The taste of the herring under a fur coat will improve if you marinate the onions. For the marinade, it is best to use a mixture of lemon juice, sugar, and salt. But you can also pickle onions in vinegar.
Step 3
Fillet 1 large and fatty herring (preferably spiced), then cut the fillet into small cubes. For cooking herring under a fur coat, ready-made herring fillets in oil are also suitable, but the taste of the salad in this case will be slightly worse.
Step 4
Take a large flat plate and brush it with a little vegetable oil. Thanks to the oil film, the salad will be easier to take off the plate with a spatula. Smearing each layer with mayonnaise, arrange the ingredients in the following order: - potatoes;
- herring;
- onion;
- eggs;
- carrot;
- beets. Also coat the last beetroot layer with mayonnaise and sprinkle with crumbled egg yolk. You can also use herbs such as parsley sprigs to decorate the salad.
Step 5
Many housewives cook herring under a fur coat with apples. Apples should only be used in sour varieties. Before adding to the salad, apples must be peeled and rubbed on a fine grater. The order in which the apples are placed depends on the recipe. You can, for example, lay an apple layer between carrots and beets.
Step 6
There is also a vegetarian recipe for herring under a fur coat called "Sea under a fur coat." For its preparation, the herring is replaced by seaweed. Eggs are also missing from the vegetarian recipe. Optionally, they can be replaced with avocado.
