Cod liver is a universal marine delicacy, which is combined with many products familiar to us. The range of its application is very wide. Cold snacks, festive dishes and even hot soups are cooked with him. Each chef includes a special ingredient in the classic cod liver salad recipe. Therefore, no recipe can claim to be considered the only correct one. In a single family, the dish is prepared in its own way. And any housewife will boldly confirm that her salad is exactly the “same”, “classic”. Although in reality she cooks it in a completely unique and unique way.
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A jar of canned cod liver is a real find for those who like to eat tasty food but don’t like to mess around the stove. What could be simpler: get the finished product from the package, spread it on a slice of bread and decorate with a piece of boiled egg. What is not a snack for you? And if you conjure a little, add boiled vegetables or cereals, chopped greens and something else to the delicacy - you will get a truly festive dish.
Cod liver can be combined with any components, but it forms the most successful combination with a boiled egg. These products complement each other perfectly and can be the basis for any salad.
To successfully decorate a dish without violating harmony, a product like cheese can. It is advisable to select gentle creamy varieties that can not interrupt the aroma of the main ingredient.
For spiciness, fresh chopped onions can be added to the salad. To get rid of excess bitterness, it must be doused with boiling water. It is enough to fill the onion with hot water twice, drain the liquid, and it will no longer be so sharp.
Those who do not like bitterness, but love the crunch of juicy onion flesh, we recommend marinating it. It is very easy to do. Dice one large turnip. Fold it in a glass or bowl. First, pour boiling water over and drain the liquid. Then add half a teaspoon of sugar and half a teaspoon of salt to the onion, as well as a teaspoon of preferably natural, apple or grape vinegar. Mix everything and refrigerate. After half an hour, squeeze out the liquid, and use the onions for the salad.
To make the dish hearty, you can add either boiled potatoes or rice to it if you wish. The combination with both products has the right to exist. Everyone chooses what he likes best.
Carrots are often put in a puff salad, and not always boiled, sometimes fresh. Fans of unusual dishes argue that it is a raw vegetable that best shades the taste of cod liver.
And in a puff and a simple salad add green peas. You can put ordinary canned. Especially lucky for those who manage to find a fresh or frozen product. If the peas are from the freezer, dip it in boiling water for a few seconds, then rinse in cold water, and it will taste as soon as it is collected from the garden.
The calorie content of the cod liver is high. Not everyone likes an overloaded dish. If you want to make it easier, add a fresh cucumber to it. And when you are preparing a salad with potatoes, put in it a salty or pickled vegetable.
With sauces, too, everything is not clear. Fans can season salad:
- mayonnaise;
- sour cream;
- vegetable oil;
- canned fat;
- mustard.
Salad with onions sprinkled with lemon juice. Ground black pepper or crushed garlic is added to the dish. Some recipes suggest seasoning a cold appetizer with soy sauce or ketchup.
Classic Cod Liver Salad Recipe
This delicious dish can be prepared from both fresh and canned liver. Finding a raw product is not easy, but sometimes it comes on sale. Most often it can be found frozen.
Fresh delicacy, before you cut into a salad, you need to cook. The liver is not cooked, but sterilized in a water bath. The whole process takes 1.5-2 hours.
At the bottom of the glass jar you need to put 7-8 peas of black pepper, two pieces of bay leaf. Rinse the liver, salt, pepper, mix with a teaspoon of vegetable oil, then roll in chopped onions. Put in a jar.
Pour water into the pan. Put a cloth on the bottom. Put a glass container on it. Cover the product with a metal lid and keep on fire until cooked.
At the end of the liver, you need to remove it from the can, cool, leaving it in the refrigerator for an hour. It will become denser, it will be easier to cut into pieces.
While the main ingredient is cooling, we will prepare other components. For a salad of 250 grams of liver, take 3-4 hard-boiled chicken eggs, half an onion and a one-gram piece of hard cheese of a spicy variety (such as "Russian").
Cheese should be grated with medium holes. Chop the onion finely. It can be doused with boiling water or pickled. Three eggs on a fine grater. Put all the ingredients in a bowl and add the main product to them.
The liver can be slightly mashed with a fork or cut with a knife. It does not need to be finely chopped and turned into paste. Tastier when the pieces are felt in the salad.
The dish is seasoned with mayonnaise or sauce made from a mixture of mayonnaise and sour cream. Add 3-4 tablespoons of dressing. The main thing is not to overdo it, otherwise the salad will be too fat. It can also be lightly seasoned with ground pepper. We do not add salt, it is already enough in cheese, sauce and ready-made delicacy.
For a beautiful serving, put the dish in a salad bowl and decorate with parsley sprigs.
Classic Cod Liver Recipe
Now let's figure out how to make a salad of canned cod liver. It's still simpler here. The main thing is to choose a decent product.
Read the label carefully. The name should indicate "natural cod liver", and only the delicacy itself, salt, spices and nothing more. The product code should begin with the numbers 010. It is worth paying attention to the location of the manufacturer, giving preference to the northern regions.
Shake the jar. You should not hear any gurgles. And, of course, we are interested in the price. A select product manufactured to all standards cannot be cheap.
With the choice, everything is clear, let's start cooking. Let's move a little away from the standard recipe and make small changes to it. Replace the chicken eggs with quail eggs. The dish will only benefit from this. Quail eggs are softer in taste, and also richer in composition with useful substances. This time we will not use cheese, but instead of onions, cover green.
In addition to a jar of canned delicacy, we need 12 quail eggs and a bunch of fresh herbs. We take the liver out of the refrigerator, remove it from the jar, cut it into cubes and send it to a bowl. Boil the eggs for three minutes, cool in running water, clean, divide into halves, put in a salad bowl. Add chopped chives to the ingredients. Season the salad with mayonnaise in the amount of three to four tablespoons.
Other salad recipes:
Cod liver has a bright taste, so it goes well with products that are characterized by neutral properties.
Such ingredients may be, for example, potatoes, rice, avocados or green peas.
The cod liver is very fat and can leave an unpleasant aftertaste that is successfully neutralized by sweet and sour or spicy foods.
Therefore, in many recipes, it is recommended to add onions or pickles to the salad.
Guided by simple rules for combining products, you can derive many recipes for insanely delicious salads.
Cod Liver Salad with Rice
This dish, thanks to its excellent taste, will not be ashamed to serve guests. It can also be cooked on regular dinner days.
You will need a can of canned food, 2 eggs, a glass of boiled rice and a bunch of green onions. Liver free from packaging. Mash a fork with boiled eggs. We introduce rice and chopped greens into the mass. Lightly season the salad with salt. We put two tablespoons of mayonnaise and sour cream, season and carefully arrange them on plates.
With egg and fresh cucumber
The combination of cod liver and boiled egg is a classic. Fresh cucumber will only successfully dilute the existing ensemble, add a touch of lightness, and slightly neutralize the taste of the main component.
A jar of delicacy will require three hard-boiled chicken eggs and one medium cucumber. We cut everything in even cubes and season with mayonnaise. A simple and very delicious salad is ready. Before serving, it can be decorated with greens.
Layer salad with cod liver
This hearty dish can be enjoyed at the festive table. Seafood lovers love this salad. It has a mild, refined taste.
We recommend taking canned cod liver to free yourself from unnecessary trouble. Boil for salad 4 potato tubers in a peel. You will also need a couple of eggs and a 100-gram piece of hard cheese. Boil one large carrot. Pickle a small turnip of red onion.
The salad is laid in layers on a wide flat dish. First line the pickled onions. On it we spread the canned liver, cut into large pieces. This layer can be smeared with a small amount of mayonnaise.
From above we distribute boiled carrots peeled and grated on a fine grater. Lubricate the layer again with mayonnaise. On the carrots, place the grated potatoes on a coarse grater, slightly salt it and more generously miss.
The next layer will be grated cheese on a fine grater. Next, the sauce. And in conclusion, sprinkle the salad with grated boiled eggs.For beauty, you can grind proteins and yolks separately. Put protein in one layer, and use the yolk as a decoration.
The salad needs to be covered with cling film and refrigerated for an hour. When the dish stands for a while, it will soak and become juicy.
Cod Liver Salad with Potatoes
Boiled potatoes are involved in many cod liver salads. Here is another option for a delicious, satisfying and quick meal.
Boil three medium potatoes and two chicken eggs. Remove canned liver from a jar or pre-cook 200 grams of fresh seafood. Rinse a small bunch of green onions under running water.
All components must be cut into cubes (chopped onion) and mixed in a deep bowl. Salad needs a little salt. If desired, ground black pepper can be added. Sprinkle with the juice of half a lemon. Add 2-3 tablespoons of mayonnaise and a spoonful of canned oil. Stir and put in a beautiful salad bowl. In addition to the dish, croutons made from white or black bread can be served.
With green peas
Delicate original salad will surely please your guests. Peas can be taken both canned and frozen. At the beginning of the article it was told what to do with stocks from the freezer.
On one jar of canned food, boil hard-boiled three eggs, large carrots and three “jacket” potatoes. Free the liver from oil, eggs from the shell, vegetables from the peel. Cut everything into cubes.
Take two small pickled or pickled cucumbers and one small fresh, and if large, half. Grind the cucumbers, as well as all other ingredients, send to a common bowl.
Add 4-5 tablespoons of peas to the salad. Season it with mayonnaise to taste. When preparing a salad, first mix it in a bowl, and then transfer it to a beautiful salad bowl, so it will look much more neat.
Salad with cod liver and corn
Take this unbroken recipe for yourself. Guests will clearly be surprised at this unusual combination. The salad is very tasty. He will certainly take pride of place on your table.
The decoration will be wheat crackers. Prepare them in advance. Cut 3-4 slices of white bread into neat cubes. Fry them until golden brown in a pan with a drop of vegetable oil and a pinch of salt.
While the crackers are cooling, take care of the other ingredients. Put the canned liver on a paper towel. For the salad you will need the contents of one jar. Wait for excess oil to drain from the delicacy. Boil 3-4 chicken eggs and rinse a bunch of green onions.
Gently mash the liver with a fork. Crush the eggs with a knife. Chop the onion. Add to the mass the contents of a small can of canned corn, after draining the water. Mix all the ingredients.
Prepare the sauce. Dilute 4 tablespoons of thick mayonnaise with a drop of milk or cream. Add salt and sugar on the tip of the knife. Lightly pepper and squeeze one large clove of garlic into the mass.
Brush the salad dressing. Put it in a beautiful dish and sprinkle with wheat crackers on top before serving.
Eggless Cod Liver Salad
Useful delicacy is allowed to be used instead of fish on certain days of fasting. Even without eggs and mayonnaise, the salad can be turned into a very tasty dish.
Jacket a pair of potato tubers. Peel them. Cut into thin circles. Put them on the first layer of lettuce.
The second tier will be pickled onions. It must be prepared in advance, cut into half rings, soaked in vinegar. How to pickle onions, it was said at the beginning of the article. Put it as much as necessary. Sprinkle some chopped greens on top.
The last layer is the cod liver. If using canned food, remove it from the can and divide it into large pieces.
Use canned oil as a sauce. Pour it into a separate bowl and stir a teaspoon of mustard in it. Add some salt and ground pepper. Pour salad dressing over it.
With prunes
In the menu of cafes and restaurants, this salad is found under the name "Tenderness." It really has a very delicate and mild flavor. Spicy liver and sweet prunes create an elegant combination.
For salad, you need to boil 4 potato tubers. From vegetables, we also need 3 small boiled carrots. Hard boil 4 eggs. We rinse and pour boiling water about 150 grams of selective pitted prunes.
The dish will be prepared from canned seafood. Liver mass without fat should be 200 grams. Finally, add a little sharpness by adding the onion head.
Vegetables, as well as chicken proteins, grate on a coarse grater. Grind the yolks on a grater with small holes. Chives are chopped very finely. Prune cut into small pieces. Mash the liver with a fork until the consistency of the paste.
We will spread the salad in layers. Using a metal ring, we will make individual servings. Put the mold in the middle of the plate and put in order potatoes, liver, onions, prunes, protein, carrots and yolk. We coat each tier with mayonnaise. Following the liver, first put onions, and only then mayonnaise.
When the salad is ready, remove the molding ring and decorate the dish with a sprig of greenery.
Sunflower Salad with Cod Liver
Under this common name they combine dishes that are decorated accordingly. The composition of the salad itself can be completely different. Consider one example.
Take the contents of one jar of cod delicacy, a pair of boiled eggs and three jacket-boiled potatoes. Fans of a pungent taste can add pickled onions to the salad.
Put the first layer of grated boiled potatoes through large openings on a dish. Lubricate it with mayonnaise, gently ram with a spoon. With a second layer, smooth the mashed liver with a fork, lightly seasoning with mayonnaise. As the next layer, lay out the grated egg whites. This tier is also oiled. Decorate the last layer with chopped yolks.
Salad will be the core of our sunflower. Decorate it with slices of black olives. Chips in a circle lay out the petals. A festive dish with an unusual serving is ready.
Cod liver salad in tartlets
Your guests will not remain hungry if a salad in tartlets is served at the buffet table.
For the filling, take 120-150 grams of cod liver. Add two boiled eggs to it and mash everything together with a fork until the consistency of the paste.
Grate raw carrots on a grater and cut one onion into small cubes. Fry them until golden in vegetable oil with a drop of salt and sugar. Throw the vegetables on a paper towel, remove excess fat.
Mix the mass from the liver and eggs with pre-fried slices of carrots and onions. Add to them 4 tablespoons of canned corn. Season with mayonnaise to taste. Let's spread the salad on tartlets. A hearty and savory snack is ready.
Do not be afraid to show imagination, combine products as you wish. Cod liver goes well with many ingredients. Therefore, you can easily take as a basis any of the proposed recipes and bring something special to it.
