Salad "Herring under a fur coat". Recipe

There is no such person in Russia, who at New Year's table never had a herring under a fur coat. This salad became a traditional decoration of the festive table. Although, perhaps, it is often enough to be found in everyday life. There are many variations of the preparation of this salad. Each gourmet can choose exactly the recipe for salad preparation, which will satisfy all his desires.

In the seventies of last century, for the first time on the tables of Soviet citizens, a salad "Herring under a fur coat" appeared. The recipe for this salad originally consisted of several ingredients: herring, carrots, onions, potatoes, well, and how without mayonnaise. It is this original variant that is considered to be classical. How to make herring under a fur coat is known to many handy housewives, but for beginners mistresses we still give a couple of recipes.

Salad herring under a fur coat. Classic Edition

Many people think that making herring under a fur coat is very difficult and long. In fact, these people are very mistaken. Salad "Herring under a fur coat", the recipe of which will be given below, is quite simple in cooking and with modern technology it can be cooked very quickly. In order to prepare a classic herring under a fur coat, you need: 2 herrings, preferably greasy and medium salted (in principle, the salinity of the herring can be chosen according to your taste), 2 carrots, 2 medium-sized beets, onion head, 3 potatoes, salt, mayonnaise.

First of all, it is necessary to cut the fillets from the fish, carefully separating all the bones, and then cut it into slices. Then boil the uncooked potatoes, carrots and beets. For faster cooking, it is better to use a microwave oven. Then boiled vegetables rubbed on a grater, it is possible on a large, it is possible on small, so it will be more gentle. Now the main and most important part. Spread the herring on a dish, then onion and grease with mayonnaise. At this stage, if the selected herring is not enough brackish to your liking, you can salt it up a little. Then put the grated potatoes, then the carrots and mayonnaise again. Then beets, and again flooded with mayonnaise. In order for the salad to soak, he needs to brew, at least a couple of hours.

Salad "Herring under a fur coat". A recipe with apples and walnuts.

Salad on this recipe is very tender and soft, despite the presence of walnuts. They are very well combined with the rest of the ingredients of the salad and can be used to decorate the salad.

Ingredients: 1 herring (preferably large), onions 1 head, 1 apple, 2 eggs, 3 potatoes, 2 beets, walnuts 50-60 g, mayonnaise.

Vegetables, naturally except onions, boil in the skin, immediately boil the eggs and leave to cool. We divide the herring - we clean from the skin and bones, we cut into small pieces. Apple rubbed on a grater, walnuts crush. After all the ingredients of the salad are prepared, put them in a salad bowl. The first layer is potatoes, oiled with mayonnaise. Next comes herring and on top of it finely chopped onions, greased with mayonnaise. Next, a layer of one grated beetroot with mayonnaise. Following the beets, a layer of finely chopped eggs with mayonnaise. Then walnuts, apple, mayonnaise. And the last layer - the remaining beets with mayonnaise. We send salad in the fridge to soak. Before eating, the salad can be decorated with crushed walnuts or grated eggs.

By the beginning of the twenty-first century, herring under a fur coat (or, more simply, a fur coat) has dozens of cooking recipes. In order to make sure of this, it is enough to write in any search system "Salad herring under a fur coat - a recipe" and the Internet will immediately give you many possible options for creating such a salad. And then, there you can get a variety of options for its decoration, although you can use your own imagination for this.