Cooking
First you need to prepare the vegetables. Boil potatoes and beets. Boil the eggs too. Peel the onion from the husk. Important! Refrigerate all boiled foods.
Also prepare the herring: remove all the bones (there are a lot of them in herring, so spend more time on this process). If you do not want to mess with the bones, then buy a ready-made peeled herring. Cut the fish fillet into cubes.
When everything is prepared, you can begin to form the dish. Prepare a large meal. Peel the potatoes and grate on a coarse grater. Salt a little and grease the first layer with mayonnaise.
Now a layer of herring. Put bigger fish to make the taste of the dish richer. Herring, like potatoes, must be greased with mayonnaise.
Cut the onion into small cubes and arrange in a third layer on a dish. It is not necessary to coat this layer with mayonnaise.
Grate sour, pickled (salted) cucumbers on a coarse grater. You can, of course, cut them, but then they will crunch. But who likes it better. Squeeze the grated pickled cucumbers and put on the onion. Now you can grease with mayonnaise.
Eggs that were cooked in advance, peel and grate on a coarse grater. Spread in a thick layer on a plate. Salt and grease with mayonnaise.
Beets also need to be grated on a coarse grater. Add mayonnaise to the grated vegetable and mix. From the resulting beetroot-mayonnaise mixture, form the last layer.
Wash the dill, pat dry with paper towels and chop finely. Decorate the finished salad with fresh herbs. Everything, classic dish herring under a fur coat with cucumbers is ready. You can put the puff salad in the refrigerator for 30-40 minutes so that it soaks, but you can immediately serve it to the table. We hope this recipe with step by step photos was useful to you. Bon Appetit!
The largest herring under a fur coat was prepared in 2010 in Kaliningrad. Weight ready meal was almost 500 kg. 4.5 thousand people tried this salad. But five years later, in 2015, a salad weighing 631 kg was prepared in the city of Saratov. This record was recorded in the Russian Book of Records.
Boil potatoes and beets in their skins, cool, peel, grate separately on a coarse grater. Finely chop the onion and three cucumbers, cut one cucumber into thin slices and leave for decoration. Set aside a few pieces of herring for decoration, finely chop the rest. Lay out the prepared ingredients in layers in the shape of a rectangle. The first layer is grated potatoes, then chopped cucumbers, grease with mayonnaise. The next layer is herring, then onions, grease with mayonnaise. The last layer is beets, grease with mayonnaise and sprinkle with finely chopped egg. Decorate the salad with pieces of herring and thin slices of cucumber and put in a cool place for soaking for one hour.
To puff salad did not crumble when cutting, each layer should be lightly pressed with a fork over the entire surface.
To prevent any salad from becoming watery from pickled or pickled cucumbers, after cutting them, they must be thoroughly squeezed out of the liquid before being put into the salad.
The ingredients for this salad are very simple. Chicken eggs boil hard. Cooking potatoes in uniform. Cook beets until soft. We clean the herring from the skin, get rid of the bones and cut into cubes.
Step 1.
Let's move on to the layers of the festive salad. We peel the potatoes and grate them on a medium grater, lay them on the bottom of a deep and wide plate. Lubricate with a layer of mayonnaise. Salt to taste, you can add a pinch of freshly ground pepper. The first layer is ready!!!
Step2
The next layer is herring. When there is not much time and guests are on the doorstep, then you can take pieces of herring from a jar. Such pieces are boneless, they can simply be cut into cubes. But still, the whole herring tastes different from the one in the jar, so the salad, for my taste, is more pleasant with it. But you will have to tinker with a whole herring more. It is important to get rid of all dense bones. So, put the herring on the potato and grease the layer with mayonnaise. The second layer is ready!
Step3
The third step in my salad is onions. Grind the onion into a cube and spread the third layer on the herring. Since the layer is thin with mayonnaise, we do not cover the onion. The third layer is ready!!!
Step 4
The main ingredient that is important in this salad is grated sour cucumbers. Necessarily sour, they give the salad unforgettable taste. We rub them on a fine grater, squeeze the juice and put them on the onion. Distribute on a plate, cover with mayonnaise. The fourth layer is ready!!!
Step 5
The next layer is chopped eggs. It is important to cook them hard boiled. You can grind arbitrarily, and you can finely chop, and crush with a fork. I rubbed them on a grater. Spread a layer, lightly salt, cover with mayonnaise. The fifth layer is ready!!!
Boil the beets until tender. We clean and grind on a coarse grater. Completely cover the salad with beets and mayonnaise. For fast food I rub the beets and add mayonnaise to it, then I grease the top of the salad with the mixture. So he does not need to soak for a long time and you can eat immediately after cooking. But such a salad is fast and the taste still changes than the one that stands overnight and is saturated with all the juices.
The famous salad "herring under a fur coat" may well compete on any holiday table with an unconditional favorite - samm, and if this dish is decorated with creative imagination, then it will also become an appetizingly bright decoration for a family feast. And you can cook it with the whole family, then everyone will feel like an outstanding chef 😉
There are a great many recipes, today we will analyze one of the attractive options for serving fish and vegetable salad in an even more original way.
Ingredients for herring under a fur coat with cucumbers:
- salted herring, large, fatty - 1 piece;
- hard-boiled chicken egg - 2 pieces;
- boiled potatoes "in uniform" - 3 pieces;
- medium-sized boiled beets - 2 pieces;
- medium-sized boiled carrots - 3 pieces;
- pickled cucumbers - 120 grams;
- onion - 1 onion;
- mayonnaise;
- salt and pepper - to taste;
- greenery for decoration.
Recipe for herring under a fur coat with cucumbers:
- Put potatoes and carrots separately in a saucepan and cook until tender. Boil the beets separately, Boil fresh chicken eggs.
- Remove all boiled ingredients, cool, remove the skin from the vegetables, and the shell from the eggs and chop: beets and carrots - on a grater, arranged in different containers, and potatoes - in small cubes. Peeled eggs can be grated or finely chopped with a knife or other device.
- Chop the peeled onion with a knife, put in a colander, scald with boiling water and let the water drain. This will soften its bitterness and smell.
- Cut pickled or pickled cucumbers into small cubes and place in a separate container.
- Peel the herring, wash, dry with a paper towel and separate the fillet, removing all the bones from it. Cut the fillet into small pieces.
- Everything is ready - a “battery” of bowls with chopped vegetables, eggs and fillets in an even formation, a suitable flat-bottomed dish with edges is also available and you can start forming a herring under a fur coat.
- The order of the layers is as follows: 1 - part of the potato, which is lightly salted and covered with a layer of mayonnaise; 2 - spread the herring evenly, and chopped onion on it and also cover with mayonnaise; 3 - chopped carrots and smearing with mayonnaise; 4 - part of the beetroot and mayonnaise; 5 - chopped eggs and mayonnaise; 6 - the second part of potatoes and mayonnaise; 7 - chopped pickled cucumbers and mayonnaise; 8 - cover with the remaining beets and coat the entire salad with sides with mayonnaise.
It remains to insist the salad in a cold place for several hours and decorate its top with greens, yolk crumbs or figures cut from boiled vegetables before serving.
You can form such a salad in a detachable form for baking a pie or cake, for example, in the shape of a heart. In this embodiment, when laying the layers, you need to coat the walls of the mold with mayonnaise, and when serving, remove it, and carefully coat the sides of the “lettuce heart” with a thin layer of mayonnaise again.
Surely you have heard a funny anecdote on the topic when a husband is talking to his wife, and she tells him: “Darling, I want a fur coat!”. And he replies with a calm look: “My hostess! I'll go for herring and beets." It is unlikely that the wife had in mind an edible fur coat, but the moral is this: men happily gobble up this salad on both cheeks, so the idea was received with enthusiasm.
Popularity since classic Olivier only a "fur coat" can compare. Both salads have been decorating the table at the most significant holidays for several decades. And despite the fact that every self-respecting hostess has tried a dozen others more exotic salads, there is no doubt that a herring under a fur coat will withstand competition.
The ability of women to be creative in solving any problem, including cooking, has led to the fact that the recipe has many variations. So, the housewives manage to cook this salad in a loaf, then to cut it into slices or make a fur coat in the form of a roll. With great enthusiasm, new combinations of products are selected, for example, grated cheese or an apple, pickled mushrooms are added.
The described herring salad recipe is close to the classic one, it conveys best traditions everyone's favorite coat. Of the innovations - the addition of a layer of pickled or pickled cucumbers. They give the salad sourness, crunch and a pleasant piquancy.
pickled cucumber recipe
In order for the fur coat to turn out to be wonderfully tender and tasty, you need to learn not only how to correctly compose the ingredients and alternate layers, but also grind them. A large grater will do a good job in this case.
Calculate the proportions of the ingredients so that the layers are approximately the same. The layer of cucumbers will be slightly smaller. In principle, you can completely refuse it. But take so many herrings in a salad that your soul rejoices! As a rule, behind this layer, spoons are pulled into a salad bowl. Due to the fact that vegetables can vary in size, it is difficult to give unconditionally clear instructions on their quantity.
Ingredients:
- potatoes 5-6 medium tubers (amount depending on size);
- herring - 3 pcs.;
- pickled or pickled cucumbers 4-5 pcs.;
- boiled eggs 5-6 pieces;
- carrots 2 pcs. large or 5 small;
- beets - 4 pcs. small (or 2 large root crops);
- mayonnaise - to taste;
- onion - to taste.
Cooking process:
All vegetables must be boiled in their skins. Someone cooks them together, someone separately, you can even bake them in the oven. It is convenient to boil beets in a separate pan, after placing them in a bag and tying them. The advantage of this trick is that beautiful pans do not lose their appearance and do not stain, and the vegetable itself is not watery and sweet, as if steamed. Beets cook the longest, carrots and potatoes the fastest.
Boil hard-boiled eggs. There is a variant of the “fur coat” salad made from vegetables alone, without eggs. Trust me, it's just as delicious. Therefore, in fasting, you can cook such a herring under a fur coat with lean mayonnaise.
Disassemble the herring, you need to remove the skin from it, remove all the bones and cut off the head. If you do not want to mess with butchering fish, take a ready-made fish fillet or herring paste. But, in my opinion, the most delicious salad is obtained with barrel salted or lightly salted herring, especially if caviar or milk comes across in it.
All boiled vegetables and eggs must be peeled. Grate boiled beets on a coarse grater. Drain off excess beetroot juice, if required.
Do the same with boiled carrots.
Grate boiled potatoes on the same grater.
Chop pickled or pickled cucumbers into small cubes or use a grater.
To make the salad beautiful, form it in a round detachable shape, like a pie. Or in portioned culinary rings, setting immediately on a dish or portioned plate.
On a wide dish, the layers are stacked one at a time; in a salad bowl with a small diameter, the layers can be repeated twice.
In the presented step by step photo In the recipe, the layers will be stacked in the classic sequence, with the only difference being that cucumbers are added.
Each of the layers is flavored with mayonnaise, it is most convenient to apply it with a mesh.
It will be tastier if you put grated potatoes in the first layer in the salad. It needs to be lightly greased with mayonnaise.
Place finely chopped onion and chopped pieces of herring fillet on top. Mayonnaise is optional here, if the layers are very thin, you can not lubricate at all.
The next layer is chopped cucumbers. Grate whites on it. Covering them with cucumbers, top with a little mayonnaise.
Now lay a layer of carrots. On her - a beet.
On the beet layer - mayonnaise.
To make the salad look appetizing, the top layer should be made from yolks grated on a medium or fine grater; you do not need to cover it with mayonnaise.
If you purchased mayonnaise in glass jar and faced with the fact that it is inconvenient to coat the lettuce layer with a spoon, then simply move it to a pastry bag with a thin nozzle (or a plastic bag, cutting off the corner). This will help you make a light mayonnaise mesh between the layers and not overload the appetizer with extra calories.
If you want to make a salad classic version, then simply remove the cucumbers from the ingredients and do everything in the same way as described in the recipe, only without them.
An important nuance: the dish should stand in the cold for several hours and soak, just like a cake with cream.
Make your guests happy delicious salad, maybe for someone it will become a bright nostalgia for childhood or youth. Everything new, as they say, is the forgotten old.
Sincerely, Anyuta.
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