Salad Herring under a fur coat: classic recipe

Contents:

• What is needed for cooking
• How to make a dish

Among the appetizers especially popular during the holidays enjoying the classic Russian salad of salted herring and boiled vegetables. I must say, every family kept its own original recipe. Nevertheless, there is a recognized traditional option.

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What is needed for cooking

First of all you need to stock up on groceries. The proposed list of ingredients accounted for 10 servings of salad "Herring under a fur coat."

Depending on the number of visitors is reduced or, conversely, to increase the amount of the ingredients proportioning.

• 500g salted herring fillets;
• 2-4 beet;
• 4-5 potatoes;
• 2-3 carrots;
• 4-5 eggs;
• Onions - 1 pc .;
• 250 g of mayonnaise or sour cream;
• Canned green peas;
• Fresh parsley.

To prepare salad classic no need to add salt since it is already present in salted herring fillets. Acquire better not fillets and whole salted fish, because its meat is tender . Of course, you have to spend time removing bones and skin, but the taste will be much nicer.

Vegetables, except onion, you need to boil until cooked. When they cool down, they need to peel and grate separately on a coarse grater. Eggs boiled hard-boiled and allowed to cool in cold water. So it will be easier to remove from their shells.

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How to make a dish

For meals you need to prepare a nice flat plate or a special seledochnitsu. The layers are beginning to spread to the herring fillets. Cut it can be small or quite large, it all depends on the preferences hostess. Neatly sliced ​​herring on the plate, it is lubricated with mayonnaise.

The second layer is placed onions. Cut it must be thin half-rings. To save a vegetable from a sharp bitter taste, it is recommended to scald with boiling water half-ring. How long to keep the onions in hot water should not be, it will lose the crunch.

Next, turn potatoes, grated on a coarse grater. Behind him are the layers of carrots and egg whites, and pureed through a large grater. Each laid layer must be lubricated with mayonnaise. The upper part serves a grated beets. Lettuce is almost ready. It remains to make a festive decoration.

Usually, it is laying the last layer of beetroot, the hostess hands forming a dish. The surface is covered with mayonnaise and sprinkle with plenty of egg yolk, crushed into crumbs. You can make Dressed Herring with green peas, which decorate the surface, laying the original patterns. You can simply sprinkle the dish of chopped parsley. Some housewives prefer to cook Dressed Herring not with mayonnaise and sour cream. In this case, you can perform for greasing layers of special sauce of sour cream with the addition of minced garlic and a few drops of lemon juice.

No matter what the recipe was used, Dressed Herring should stand in the refrigerator for a couple of hours, all the ingredients soaked in sauce. Therefore, you need to prepare a meal early.