"Mimosa" is one of the most popular salads for a festive table in the entire European post-Soviet space. He was on the mandatory menu for the New Year or 8 March, taking his place of honor among plates with olivier, herring under the fur coat, sprats with lemon and olives.
Two words about snacks
The "Mimosa" salad is made in layers. Its name is due to the bright yellow top of the egg yolk. After all, this is how the first spring flowers look, which appear in wide sale before the Women's Day. And, of course, multi-colored layers of those products that go to the preparation of the dish. What else is important to remember if you decide to treat your loved ones with delicacy? To the salad "Mimosa", layers laid on a dish, was juicy and tasty, it should be prepared at least 3-4 hours before serving the table. And ideally - the night before the holiday. Then all components will be well impregnated with a mayonnaise layer. And your salad "Mimosa" (layers) will acquire a gentle pleasant consistency, will literally melt in your mouth. Only promazyvat "Provansal" should be moderately, otherwise the dish will turn out to be too high-calorie or it will look overspent, unsightly in appearance. If all the recommendations are met, then a wonderful salad "Mimosa" (layers) will become one of the most winning dishes for all occasions.
Classic recipe: ingredients
Before you begin the sacramental activities in the kitchen, decide whether the fish or meat ingredients will be your food. The fact is that they put in it either canned food (sardines in oil, sprats, tuna), or pieces of sausage, ham or boiled chicken breast. We will analyze for the beginning, how the fish salad "Mimosa" is prepared. Layers in order: in our variant rice, further fish, green onions, egg white, carrots, yolk. After each layer there is a smearing of mayonnaise. By the way, we listed all the necessary ingredients. And now the process is in detail.
Classic recipe: cooking
So, to make a mimosa salad (layers in order can be placed immediately in the plate in which you will put it on the table), boil a little more than half a glass of long rice to the friability. You can do more if you plan to prepare 2 portions. Spread it evenly, giving it a shape that matches the shape of the dish. Make a mesh of mayonnaise. Remove the fish from the jar, remove the stone, and break the fillet with a fork. Lay out on the rice, level with the blade of the knife, also pro-mayonnaise. Finely chop a bunch of green onions, you can with the heads. Sprinkle it over the surface of the salad, lightly grease "Provencal". Then the recipe recommends laying eggs in the salad "Mimosa by layers". Boil hard-boiled 4-5 eggs, cool. Chop the squirrel and gently remove the yolks. Squirrels grind the squirrels or finely chop. Spread evenly the layer, make a mesh of mayonnaise. Boil 2-3 carrots, peel, grate and also send to a salad. Slightly adhere and pepper. Again add mayonnaise, well miss. Last yolk the yolks and carefully sprinkle the dish. How can you decorate the salad "Mimosa with layers": the recipe suggests sticking into it or spreading around the sprigs of fresh parsley and dill. Let him tread carefully, and treat yourself to health!
"Mimosa" with cheese and ham
As already mentioned, our dish can be presented in different versions. For example, salad "Mimosa with cheese." Layers, of course, will already come from other products. But the taste of the appetizer will not give way to the ever-living classic. So: boil in the uniforms of 5-6 potatoes. Cool, peel, grate directly in a flat salad bowl. Seize, pepper and oil sour cream. Gram 100 ham or boiled sausage cut into strips and put on top. Apply a mesh of mayonnaise. Next, a layer of several salted or pickled cucumbers. You can replace it with marinated Bulgarian pepper, chopped straw. Again mayonnaise. Boil 4-5 eggs, peel, finely chop and also spread on the surface of the previous layer, salt. Savor the sauce "Provansal" again. The last is a layer of grated cheese of any sort - which you prefer, of course, yellow. They generously sprinkle not only the top of the salad, but also sprinkle from the sides. Add a couple of green parsley sprigs and a pair of onion stalks - the gorgeous cheese Mimosa is ready to decorate your table!
Mimosa with crab sticks
If we say that the culinary process is a creative process, no cook will deny it. After all, it is not enough to be able to cook strictly according to recipes, with respect to the minutiae of the composition and quantity of ingredients. It is also important to be able to fantasize, invent, create. Try to cook with spicy salad "Mimosa" with crab sticks and Korean carrots. The sequence of layers looks like this: a few grated potatoes, salted and peppered, greased with mayonnaise. Then a layer of Korean carrots and green onions. Between them mayonnaise. The fourth layer - from chopped crab sticks with "Provansal", and the last - from cheese. Great view, great taste. Pleasure for all lovers to eat properly.
"Mimosa tenderness"
Stunningly tender salad "Mimosa" comes out on this recipe. Slice the onion rings and soak it in acidified water for about an hour so that bitterness is gone. Boil 5 eggs, separate the squirrels, finely chop, spread into a mold, grease with mayonnaise. Scratch the Dutch cheese and make a second layer. Frost the oil beforehand, grate it and put it behind you. On top 0 wrung onion, flavored with mayonnaise. Now crushed crab sticks. Crab meat or shrimp meat will do. On it is laid a layer of grated straws of sweet and sour apples. They, too, can be flavored with mayonnaise, and top, naturally, sprinkle with a grated yolk. After the impregnation from such a "Mimosa" you can not tear the guests away until the salad is eaten up to crumbs.
Helpful Tips
What else can you recommend about the dish? Prepare it with mushrooms and meat, with layers of fresh tomatoes, with potatoes and eggs. And add a little bit of mustard to the dressing. The taste will turn out to be original, sharp, attractive. Or, make one of the layers from a raw carrot with garlic and mayonnaise. Too it will be pleasant to everyone who salad will try.