The most delicate salad "Mimosa" with cheese, despite the spring name, is usually prepared in the winter and often it even decorates the New Year's table. Its components are ordinary products, which will not be difficult to find. The simplest and one of the most popular salads can be prepared both according to the traditional recipe, and slightly modified.

Classic Mimosa salad with cheese

The main products for the preparation of a classic dish are:

  • Canned fish. It is important to take just sea fish: pink salmon, salmon, mackerel, horse mackerel or saury. For the preparation of dietary mimosa take low-calorie tuna (while the taste of the finished dish will be slightly different from the usual).
  • Boiled eggs. Usually they take chicken, but they can be replaced with quail, but in larger quantities. More than 10 minutes to cook eggs is not worth itotherwise the yolk will not be yellow, but slightly greenish.
  • It is advisable to choose mayonnaise fat and thick with the least amount of various additives. If you want to make the dish easier, the amount of mayonnaise can be reduced.
  • Hard cheese is taken, pre-crushed with a fine grater.
  • Vegetables (potatoes, carrots) are pre-boiled. You can do it in a double boiler, then they will be much tastier. Then they are cleaned and ground on a grater, small or large.
  • Onion take salad. In its absence, the usual turnip is ground and insisted in boiling water for several minutes (or simply scald). Then it will not be so sharp and bitter.

For a traditional salad you will need:

  • a can of canned food;
  • 3-4 potatoes;
  • 3 eggs;
  • a couple of carrots;
  • 0.15 kg of cheese;
  • onion;
  • mayonnaise;
  • sprigs of greenery.

Mimosa is prepared with canned cheese and cheese is quite simple:

  1. Boil potatoes, eggs and carrots and peel.
  2. Finely rubbed into separate containers.In this case, the yolks and proteins are separated and also crushed into different plates.
  3. Chop the onion and cheese.
  4. Liquid is drained from canned food, bones are removed, filet is kneaded with a fork.
  5. Prepared products are laid out in layers, spreading each with mayonnaise sauce. First, half the potatoes are distributed along the bottom, fish, onions, then potatoes again, then cheese, carrots, proteins, yolks. Top the top with sauce is not necessary.
  6. Put the dish in the refrigerator and decorate with sprigs of greens before serving.

To make the mimosa more magnificent, the products are rubbed on a grater during the formation of layers directly into the mold, and then lubricated with mayonnaise, while leveling with a fork.

With canned pink salmon

Mimosa salad with cheese and pink salmon is quite juicy and rich due to the addition of butter.

To prepare it, you need to cook the following products:

  • a jar of canned pink salmon;
  • butter - 50 g;
  • bulb;
  • 0.1 kg of cheese;
  • 3-4 eggs;
  • mayonnaise;
  • greens, lettuce.

First we prepare the products:

  1. Knead pink salmon with a fork.
  2. Grind the onion.
  3. Cook the eggs. Grind the proteins, leave the yolks for decoration.
  4. Rub the cheese.

After that, go to the assembly:

  1. Cover the dish with lettuce leaves, spread half the mashed canned food on them. Next - half the onion. Lightly coat the layer with mayonnaise.
  2. We spread the protein row (also half), on which we lay thin plates of oil (in full).
  3. Sprinkle with cheese, grease with mayonnaise.
  4. We spread the following rows: pink salmon, onion residues, grease with mayonnaise, proteins, cheese, mayonnaise again.
  5. Spread the greens on the surface, sprinkle it with chopped yolk, imitating mimosa branches. The base of the stems is decorated with a bow of sweet pepper.

After cooking, remove the dish in the refrigerator to insist.

How to cook with sardines?

To create another variation of a popular salad on a jar of canned food you will need:

  • 2-3 boiled potatoes;
  • a pair of boiled carrots;
  • 6 hard boiled chicken eggs;
  • cheese (50 g);
  • bulb;
  • mayonnaise, salt - as needed.

Grind prepared foods:

  1. The cooked components, cheese - on a fine grater (protein and yolk in this case, put in separate bowls).
  2. Chop the onion finely with a knife.
  3. Knead the canned food with a fork.

Then we collect the dish: first, potatoes (slightly salted), then onions, cheese, sardines, protein and carrots.

We coat each layer with mayonnaise sauce, and then we decorate the surface with chopped yolk and herbs.

Then put it in the refrigerator.

Mimosa salad with apples

Mimosa with cheese and apple will appeal to those who love a sour taste.

For such a salad you need to cook the following products:

  • a can of canned food;
  • 2 medium carrots;
  • 3 eggs;
  • 0.2 kg of cheese;
  • apple (ideally, green and sour);
  • medium sized onion;
  • mayonnaise.

Creating a salad begins with the preparation of the ingredients: boil potatoes, carrots, eggs. In addition to the apple, all the ingredients are ground. It is cleaned, and then rubbed immediately before sending it to the dish, otherwise it will darken.

After that, they collect the dish in layers, coating each row with mayonnaise sauce:

  • fish;
  • bulb;
  • proteins
  • cheese;
  • an Apple;
  • carrot;
  • the yolks.

The salad is decorated with herbs and sent to infuse in the refrigerator, ideally at night.

With crab sticks

A low-calorie dish is prepared by replacing canned food with crab sticks.

For a salad you will need:

  • 3 potatoes;
  • a pack of chilled crab sticks (0.2 kg);
  • 4 eggs;
  • bulb;
  • 0.15 kg of hard cheese;
  • an Apple;
  • 0.1 kg of frozen butter;
  • mayonnaise and greens.

Having prepared all the components, lay them in layers in a transparent mold or salad bowl:

  • chopped boiled potatoes;
  • grated squirrels from boiled eggs;
  • crushed cheese;
  • grated oil;
  • onion slices;
  • chopped crab sticks;
  • chopped apple;
  • grated yolk.

All layers, except oil and yolk, are smeared with mayonnaise. The surface is decorated with greenery.

The finished dish is cleaned in the refrigerator.

Rice Cooking Recipe

To create a "rice" mimosa take the following products:

  • a can of canned food;
  • carrots - 2-3 pcs.;
  • hard cheese - 0.2 kg;
  • bulb;
  • rice - 0.1 kg;
  • 6 chicken eggs;
  • greens (for decorating) and mayonnaise (for impregnation).

A similar recipe:mimosa with rice

First you need to prepare the products:

  1. Boil and peel the carrots and eggs.
  2. Boil the washed rice in a large amount of liquid until tender (about half an hour), recline in a colander, rinse well, and then drain the water.
  3. Chop the onion.
  4. Mash canned food with a fork.

Carrots, proteins, yolks, cheese are crushed using a grater directly into the mold as necessary, and then leveled with a fork.

The salad is collected in layers, each layer is smeared with mayonnaise (except for the final - yolk):

  • rice
  • canned food, onion;
  • cheese;
  • protein;
  • carrot;
  • the yolks.

The salad is cleaned in a cold place, and after insisting decorate with green sprigs of dill or parsley.

With butter and cheese

You can cook the usual mimosa without fish. To do this, take the following products:

  • 3 boiled potatoes;
  • 0.1 kg of frozen butter;
  • as much cheese (hard);
  • 2 boiled carrots;
  • 4 boiled eggs;
  • 5 tablespoons of mayonnaise;
  • salt.

All components, except oil, are crushed into separate containers (proteins and yolks are also placed in different plates) The oil is rubbed already in the process of assembling the dish directly into the salad bowl.

Prepared products are laid out in layers:

  • potatoes (need salt);
  • carrot;
  • cheese;
  • oil;
  • protein;
  • yolk.

Mayonnaise smeared only potato and protein layers.

Next, the salad “cake” is decorated with greens, vegetable slices and sent to the refrigerator.

Low-calorie - with tuna

For the dietary version of mimosa, you will need:

  • a pair of jars of tuna, preserved in pieces in their own juice;
  • 5 boiled eggs;
  • crushed cheese (0.15 kg);
  • mayonnaise (0.2 kg);
  • some frozen butter.

Such a mimosa is prepared with butter and cheese in a form with high sides as follows:

  1. Juice is drained from canned food, tuna is chopped with a fork and divided into 2 equal parts.
  2. On the bottom of the mold slightly smeared with mayonnaise, lay one part of the fish, grease the fish layer with mayonnaise.
  3. Sprinkle with grated butter, then with half the grated proteins, spread with mayonnaise, sprinkle with cheese, and grease the sauce again.
  4. Lay out repeated layers in the same order.
  5. The top is decorated with chopped yolks, herbs.

 

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