Most of us associate a festive table with a wide variety of salads, many of which turn out to be very satisfying and high-calorie. Of course, the hostess wants all her guests to be satisfied and satisfied with the tried and tested dishes, but few people worry about the stomachs. Holidays aren’t so frequent, and therefore you can relax a bit for one evening - enjoy something not quite dietary, but so deliciously delicious! However, one should not forget about the usefulness of the products from which the dish is prepared. This article offers generous and hospitable housewives an excellent compromise solution for their rich table - Fish Cake salad.
Why is fish salad the perfect holiday meal?
Firstly, all the ingredients that go into the salad according to the recipe are natural and even healthy (or even dietary). Secondly, the finished dish looks very impressive and resembles a real holiday cake, only salty. Thirdly, through the use of seafood and eggs, the salad turns out to be very satisfying, and therefore a small portion can be eaten quickly (which means it is unlikely to eat extra calories). In general, the option for a festive feast is ideal. Let's start cooking?
Salad Needed Components
Fish cake salad is prepared in layers, each of them is a new ingredient, and between them is a gentle creamy cream. At the edges it is framed by a red fish, and on top it is decorated with red caviar. Is it possible to ignore such a masterpiece? Cake fish salad is sure to become one of the main culinary decorations of your celebration.
List of ingredients
We begin the preparation phase. Here is a list of products needed to make a salad:
- slightly salted salmon or trout - half a kilo (you can buy ready-made slices - two packs);
- eggs - 4-6 pieces;
- crab sticks - 400-500 grams (or one package);
- rice - 80-100 grams.
For creamy cream:
- cheese "Philadelphia" or "Almette" (with greens) - 150 g;
- sour cream and mayonnaise (can be replaced with natural yogurt) - 4 tbsp. spoons;
- gelatin - 8 grams.
For decoration: red or black caviar (optional).
Preparatory stage
First you need to prepare all the products: boil the rice in salted water (you can add a little paprika), boil hard-boiled eggs, peel and separate the whites from the yolks, cut the fish into thin slices (if you do not use ready-made slices).
Cooking Cream
We dilute gelatin in half a glass of water and leave it to swell for half an hour. Meanwhile, in a separate container, beat cream cheese, sour cream and mayonnaise or yogurt. The gelatin is heated in a water bath until completely dissolved and cooled. Add it to the rest of the ingredients, mix with a spatula or beat with a mixer. The cream is ready.
Assembling Salad Cake
It's time to pick up the Fish Cake puff salad. To assemble it, you will need a fairly deep, preferably conical (slightly tapering in depth) bowl-shape. It is lined with cling film completely (if it is not there, then you can use foil), and then we lay out the walls and bottom of the form with thin pieces of fish (lap). Grind the yolks, proteins and crab sticks (cut into cubes or three on a grater), all separately, without mixing.
At the bottom of the form, spread the cream (a couple of spoons). Next, lay all our ingredients in layers in the indicated sequence:
- grated yolks and cream;
- crab sticks and cream;
- proteins and cream again;
- the last layer is rice and cream.
By the way, if you don’t like crab sticks, you can replace them with boiled shrimp, for example. It will turn out even tastier and, of course, more useful. Mayonnaise is a good substitute for natural unsweetened yogurt, this will make the dish noticeably more dietary, without affecting the taste. But it’s better not to touch the other components - this is the combination of red salted fish, tender proteins and hearty yolks that will give the perfect harmony of tastes.
Carefully wrap the form with cling film and put in the refrigerator for several hours (3-4 hours or overnight). When the salad hardens, pull it out, remove the film, cover with a large flat dish and turn over. We take off the form slowly (so that the cake does not fall apart and does not stick). The fish cake salad is ready. It remains to decorate it.
Festive meal decoration
We take red caviar (you can black) and beautifully lay it on top of the cake, around the circumference we decorate the salad with greens (parsley, dill, lettuce). Such a dish will look very impressive both outside and in section. At the same time, it is not very difficult to prepare it, the most important thing is to prepare all the ingredients in advance, and then it remains only to collect and, cooling, decorate. When serving, it is better to cut off neat slices of a snack cake for guests so that it does not fall apart and retains a decent appearance. You can supplement it with rye croutons or brown bread toasts that perfectly emphasize the taste of the dish.
Well, are you ready to take a chance and cook a truly royal salad "Fish Cake"? The recipe proposed in our article will surely be affordable even for beginner young housewives. Bon Appetit!