Winter salad with fish is an original harvest that contains various vegetables. Moreover, the product has a unique taste. In fact, these are canned fish, cooked at home. Such a salad can be served in combination with a side dish of potatoes, and can also be used as a cold snack. It is best to use sprat, capelin or herring in cooking. Some recipes allow the addition of mackerel or herring. A great option is a fish salad for the winter with tomatoes.
Which fish to choose
To make a salad for winter with fish and vegetables tasty, you need to choose the right components. On the shelves of stores it is very difficult to find a chilled product. Most likely, such a fish will already be thawed. You need to be careful. It is better to choose a frozen fish and only whole carcasses that have both a tail and a head.
Winter fish salad with tomatoes
To prepare the workpiece you need:
- 400 grams of herring.
- 750 grams of tomato.
- 150 grams of onion.
- 300 grams of carrots.
- 100 grams of beets.
- Vegetable oil.
- A tablespoon of salt.
- A few tablespoons of sugar.
- Two large tablespoons of vinegar 9%.
Product Preparation
Salad for the winter with fish is very simple to prepare. But the result is an original snack. First, it’s worth peeling the onion and cutting it, of course, into half rings. Place a frying pan on the fire and pour a little vegetable oil into it. It should heat up well. After that, chopped onion should be put in the pan. The product must be fried until translucent, stirring constantly.
Almost ready onion should be transferred to the cauldron. If there is no such device in your kitchen, then you can use the multicooker bowl. Here, a salad for the winter with fish will be stewed. A slow cooker can perfectly replace a cauldron. The taste of the finished product does not deteriorate.
Fresh carrots should be peeled, washed well, and then chopped. This is best done with a blender. If this is not possible, then you can grate the vegetable on a fine grater. You need to put a frying pan on the fire and pour a little vegetable oil into it. After that, you can lay out the carrots and lightly fry it. An almost finished product must be transferred to a multicooker bowl or in a cauldron for onions.
Beets also need to be peeled, washed and chopped. This can be done using a blender or grater. The crushed beets also need to be fried in vegetable oil and transferred to a cauldron or in a multicooker bowl for carrots and onions.
Tomatoes need to be peeled. This can be done by placing them for several minutes in boiling water, and then in cold water. The pulp of a tomato should be chopped in a blender. If desired, the resulting mass can be rubbed through a sieve. Waste leaves seeds and skin of a tomato. The resulting sauce must be added to the vegetables.
Before cooking, fish should be cleaned by removing the entrails and head, and then washed. Now you can start cooking. Salad for the winter with fish and vegetables is almost ready.
Heat treatment
To make a vegetable salad with fish for the winter delicious, you need to stew the vegetables separately. It is better to add fish a little later. All vegetables should be placed in a slow cooker or a cauldron and put out. It takes about 20 minutes. In the slow cooker, select the "Extinguishing" function.
After the specified time, you can add prepared herring to the salad. Also, sugar and salt should be added to the salad. In a cauldron, you can pour vinegar and simmer for about half an hour, thoroughly mixing the products.
How to store
Ready salad for the winter with fish should be stored in canned form. Therefore, it is worth preparing glass containers and lids in advance. It is better to take cans of small volume so that snacks are enough for once.
While the salad is being prepared, containers can be prepared. Banks need to be washed well, and then sterilized. The same thing needs to be done with covers.
Ready vegetable salad with fish should be put in jars and rolled well. After that, hermetically sealed containers must be placed with their lids down and left until they cool completely. Store the original fish appetizer with vegetables at a temperature not exceeding 8 ° C. This is a prerequisite. Otherwise, the roll will not stand. An ideal place to store salad can be the bottom shelf in the refrigerator.