When preparing dishes, I want them to be not only tasty, but also pleasing to the eye with their beauty. The most common salad on the festive table is a herring under a fur coat. Making a menu - this dish comes first on the list.

Herring under a Fur Coat. Layers in order. Classic recipe

Every hostess at least once in her life was faced with the question of how to lay layers in this traditional dish correctly and in what order? Over the years, many changes have been made to this recipe, new ingredients have been added. But the very first, classic recipe for cooking herring under a fur coat still remains tasty and desirable on the table.

Ingredients:

  • herring fillet - 900 g;
  • egg - 6 pcs.;
  • potato - 3 pcs.;
  • beetroot - 6 pcs.;
  • carrot - 3 pcs.;
  • mayonnaise - 200 ml.

Cooking method:

  1. If you have a herring carcass, cut off your head, remove the insides. Rinse with cold water. Cut along. Remove the ridge and all the bones. If the filet is ready, start cooking immediately.
  2. Cut the fish into small cubes. This will be the first layer.
  3. For the second layer, cook potatoes in their skins. Cool, peel is easier to peel from a cold vegetable. Take a coarse grater and grate.
  4. Cook the eggs for ten minutes over low heat. If you turn on the fire at high power, the eggs may crack.
  5. Drain the water. Pour cold liquid, cool. This makes eggs easier to peel.
  6. Grate. This is the third layer.
  7. Carrots can be boiled with potatoes, just take into account that the cooking time for it is longer than fifteen minutes. Therefore, get the potatoes earlier. Cook in a peel. After cooking, cool, clean. Grate coarse. In the salad, the vegetable is the fourth layer.
  8. Beetroot is boiled in a peel. Its cooking time is twice that of other vegetables.Check readiness with a knife. If the tool easily and gently enters the pulp, then the vegetable is boiled. Cool, peel, grate. The filling for the fifth layer is ready.
  9. Forming the salad, lay out the layers in order, smearing with mayonnaise. Garnish the top layer with sauce by drawing a net.

Classic herring under a fur coat - how to arrange layers?

 

Herring salad under a fur coat appeared on New Year's Eve and quickly gained popularity. Despite his rich history, he still remains the most desired delicacy not only on the New Year's table, but also on all family holidays. During cooking, a festive mood is created. Each housewife has a secret to cooking. Cooked with carrots, apples. Change the order of the layers. But the favorite is the classic herring recipe under a fur coat, collected in layers.

Ingredients:

  • onion - 3 pcs.;
  • potato - 6 pcs.;
  • egg - 6 pcs.;
  • herring fillet - 600 g;
  • beetroot - 6 pcs.;
  • mayonnaise - 100 g.

Cooking:

The main thing is to correctly arrange the layers, the taste and appearance of the dish depend on this.

  1. The first layer is always a fish, which is cut into small pieces. On a large dish spread it in a thin layer.
  2. The second layer is onion. Add onion, pre-chopped and pickled in hot water onions for ten minutes.
  3. Potatoes have a third layer. First, the vegetable is boiled in its uniform. Cool, peel, rub on a coarse grater.
  4. From above, potatoes are poured with the oil that is left of the fillet and greased with mayonnaise.
  5. The fourth layer is carrots, boiled in a peel, cooled, peeled and grated on a coarse grater.
  6. The next fifth layer is the egg. Hard boil. Cool in cold water, peel the shell and pass through the egg cutter.
  7. Top with mayonnaise.
  8. The sixth layer is the main ingredient of this dish - beetroot. It is he who gives an unforgettable taste and look. It is boiled until soft, after cooling it is cleaned and rubbed on a grater.
  9. At the end, with a spoon, gently rub the mayonnaise, forming beautiful rounded sides.

How to cook a salad and how to serve herring under a fur coat?

 

Serve beautifully in a transparent salad bowl. In this design, the herring under the fur coat shows all the layers arranged in order.

You can serve a snack in portions. For this, it is convenient to use the culinary ring. If it is not available, take a bottle of mineral water, cut the ring.

During cooking, firmly press the food so that it is easier to get out of the portioned ring.

To create a beautiful salad, resourceful housewives use a split mold for baking a cake. The location of all layers is clearly visible. On the festive table, it takes the form of a cake and decorates the table. It looks original salad, laid out on a dish in the form of a rectangle or square.

The herring under a fur coat, cooked according to the classic recipe with an egg, twisted into a roll, will certainly cause guests' admiration. For this design option, all products are collected on cling film and arranged in reverse order. This means that the first layer will be a beetroot. Herring, unlike the classic version, does not need to be distributed over the entire surface, but to lay out the entire portion only in the center. Then, gently pressing with your hands, roll into the shape of a roll. Without removing the film give a couple of hours to brew in the refrigerator. Then they remove the film and decorate the holiday table with a beautiful dish.

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A less common option is to serve in large glasses for red wine. This portioned option looks amazing. All layers are clearly visible, causing appetite, and the desire to quickly try a colorful dish.

How to decorate a herring under a fur coat

 

The classic version of the decoration of the dish is a mesh applied mayonnaise on a layer of beetroot. Sometimes decorated with grated egg or chopped herbs. Use tomatoes, cucumbers, onion rings or olives. There are many options to give a beautiful, unique look to the familiar dish.Of course, you will have to spend more time and effort, but the result is worth it.

For decoration, you can use the usual cookie cutters. Cut animals from any products, delighting children.

With the help of mayonnaise, a trunk is drawn, slices of olives add the image of a birch, and parsley serves as leaves. Using caviar and mayonnaise, you get very beautiful fish. You can depict a real aquarium by adding algae from dill.

If you have a silicone cake mold with a beautiful pattern, for example, a rose or a bear, use it, you won’t regret it. When you turn the salad on the dish, it will take the form of a shape and will look like a cake.

It is very easy to shape the fish. To make scales from beetroot, onion, carrot cut into rings.

 

They make flowers from boiled beetroot and carrots, laying them on a grid drawn by mayonnaise. Parsley leaves are ideal for foliage flowers. By the new year, it’s beautiful to decorate with a clock, on which the arrows indicate twelve hours. To do this, evenly distribute mayonnaise over the beetroot layer. From boiled carrots cut Roman numerals and arrows. Arrange in the correct order. This dish is placed in the center of the festive table. You may not draw numbers and arrows with mayonnaise, because they will necessarily turn red in beetroot.

Secrets and Cooking Tips

To herring under a fur coat, prepared according to the classic recipe for layers was tasty, you need to know some points:

  1. Choose a strong potato that does not become watery during cooking. Improperly picked potatoes will turn into mashed potatoes and spoil the taste of the dish. Many boil peeled potatoes - this is wrong, it is worth cooking only in their uniforms.
  2. Beetroot, with a cross section of white veins, is not suitable for salad. Also do not use feed varieties. Ideal beard burgundy color, which has a sweet aftertaste. Stop is worth the choice of medium-sized fruits.
  3. Carrots should be sweet, without bitterness. Medium in size, crisp and firm.
  4. If possible, get eggs from farmers. They differ in appearance from store eggs, a saturated yolk that will decorate the salad with its appearance.
  5. Choose herring fatty, slightly salted. Salted fish overcook the appetizer.
  6. Mayonnaise use bold. With a small percentage of fat, mayonnaise is too liquid, it will not be able to saturate the layers well.
  7. Onions are always soaked in water or pickled. This softens the sharp onion taste. Always positioned over herring.
  8. Cut the ingredients into cubes is not necessary, grated give a mild flavor to the salad and are well soaked.
  9. If you use ready-made slightly salted herring fillet, do not throw the oil away, pour on top of the potatoes and get a rich and delicate taste.
  10. To add a piquant taste with a slight acidity, an apple is added, rubbed on a coarse grater. Grated apple gives off a lot of juice and can ruin the dish.
  11. Before starting the formation of the salad, grease the plate with sunflower oil.
  12. Well coat the layers with mayonnaise, otherwise the salad will be dry.
  13. Do not use herring if it has a yellowish tint or foreign odors, which means that the fish was not stored properly and possibly spoiled.

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