For many housewives, Mimosa salad is a traditional dish on the festive table. If you do not know how to cook this flaky snack, then after reading the recipes below, you can reproduce the dish in your own kitchen.
Currently, Mimosa salad is prepared according to various recipes. So many new ingredients are added to the appetizer that it ceases to resemble a favorite dish for many. We will consider 2 recipes for making Mimosa salad. The first is a classic recipe, and the second is a snack with the addition of crab sticks. Which option is better is up to you.
Mimosa salad classic recipe
For most housewives, the classic recipe for Mimosa salad is one that contains butter. Many old cookbooks do not use oil in the preparation of the appetizer, but the salad recipe is also considered a classic. We will discuss preparing a dish without adding a fatty ingredient, do not refuse this option. The "Mimosa" salad created according to the recipe, which will be given below, turns out to be very tender and tasty, guests quickly eat it and forgive the additives, but what else does the hostess need?
To prepare classic Mimosa salad, take:
- 225 g (the weight of one can) canned fish (pink salmon is suitable);
- 3 medium-sized potatoes cooked in their skins;
- 3 medium-sized boiled carrots;
- 3 hard-boiled chicken eggs;
- 1 bunch of green onions;
- 250 g mayonnaise;
- Salt optional.
The dish is prepared according to the following scheme:
- Choose a flat dish into which you will "collect" the "Mimosa" salad. Put canned fish mashed with a fork on a prepared plate. If there were bones in the product, be sure to remove them.
- Spread a small layer of mayonnaise over the fish.
- Peel the potatoes, grate on a coarse grater, distribute over the canned fish - this will be the second layer. Top with mayonnaise on the potatoes.
- The third layer is carrots peeled and chopped on a coarse shredder. The vegetable is also smeared with sauce.
- Peel the eggs, separate the whites from the yolks. The fourth layer of "Mimosa" salad - proteins, chopped on a coarse shredder and greased with mayonnaise.
- Grind the yolks on a fine grater - this will be the 5th layer of the snack. Do not add mayonnaise.
- Wash the onion, dry it, cut it into thin rings, sprinkle the chopped vegetable on top of the dish.
- The "Mimosa" salad is ready, send the appetizer for 2-3 hours to soak in the refrigerator and you can serve it to the table.
The dish prepared according to this recipe is perfect for a festive table.
Mimosa salad with crab sticks
If you are already tired of the traditional Mimosa salad, try making an appetizer with the addition of crab sticks. With new ingredients, the dish acquires an unusual taste.
To prepare the salad, take:
- 1 pack of crab sticks;
- 1 medium onion;
- 2 small green apples;
- 100 g of hard cheese;
- 5 hard-boiled chicken eggs;
- 50 g butter;
- 300 g mayonnaise;
- ½ lemon;
- Salt, spices to taste.
Mimosa salad with crab sticks is prepared according to the following scheme:
- Before starting to create a culinary masterpiece, let's prepare all the ingredients. Peel the eggs, separate the whites from the yolks. Grate the whites on a coarse shredder, mash the yolks with a fork.
- Open the package of crab sticks, remove the cellophane, cut the product into small pieces.
- Peel the onion, cut it as finely as possible, put the prepared vegetable in a colander, pour over with boiling water. Such manipulation will discourage bitterness from the vegetable, making it tender in taste.
- Grate the cheese on a coarse grater.
- Wash apples under running water, dry, peel, remove seeds and core. Grate the pure fruit on a fine shredder, sprinkle the resulting "puree" with lemon juice so that the apple does not darken.
- All the products are ready, you can start forming the Mimosa salad. Since the appetizer is laid out in layers, then choose for it either a flat plate or a dish with high sides.
- The first layer of Mimosa salad is crab sticks. Spread the mayonnaise on top so that it evenly covers the product.
- The scalded onions are laid out in the second layer, then the proteins, mayonnaise is distributed on top.
- Next, a layer of grated apples, yolks on top, mayonnaise.
- Take butter, it should be frozen. Rub the product on a coarse shredder - this will be another layer.
- Sprinkle the butter with shredded cheese.
- Mimosa salad with crab sticks is assembled. Place the snack in the refrigerator for a couple of hours to soak.
- Before serving, the dish can be decorated with herbs, olives or olives, pieces of crab sticks.
Try to repeat one of the suggested recipes in your kitchen and decide which Mimosa salad you prefer. Bon Appetit!
