"Mimosa" is a salad familiar to everyone since childhood. It is a traditional festive table decoration. Especially popular salad acquired in the Soviet Union. Most often, Mimosa salad is prepared without potatoes and carrots. But in the Soviet period of history, many new recipes appeared. Traditional olivier and more nutritious ingredients, such as potatoes, carrots, as well as parsley, dill, tomatoes, cheese and other products began to be added to it.
History of creation
Who created the recipe for this wonderful salad is not exactly known. But he appeared around the seventies of the twentieth century in the USSR and immediately became popular. It was printed in newspapers with different names and ingredients.
Title
The salad owes its name to the mimosa flower, which the salad resembles because of the yolk that decorates the top of the salad.
Mimosa salad without potatoes
Such a dish will be appropriate for any feast. Let’s describe a step-by-step classic recipe for Mimosa salad.
To do this, you need the ingredients:
- six to seven eggs;
- one carrot;
- one onion of medium size;
- canned fish (any will do);
- mayonnaise.
The first step is to boil the eggs and carrots. After that, vegetables and eggs should be allowed to cool and peel. Separate the protein from the yolk. Protein will go to the salad, and the yolk will decorate the top layer.
Further, for the Mimosa salad without potatoes, you will need to drain the oil from a can of fish canned food. Get the fish and grind it. It is most convenient to do this with a fork, after putting the fish on a plate. Pieces in this case are obtained the right size, and the fish is easily kneading.
Chop the onion finely. And in order to get rid of too strong a smell, the bulb can first be scalded with boiling water and then chopped later.
It remains only to lay the layers, and the Mimosa salad without potatoes is ready. Layers are stacked in a specific order. The first layer is necessarily canned fish, they need to be very carefully and tightly laid on the bottom of the dishes. The most effective salad looks in a glass salad bowl. So you can consider all the layers. You need to grease the fish with plenty of ready-made mayonnaise.
Squirrel is laid on top. Proteins are crushed beforehand. A layer of proteins should also be greased with mayonnaise. For this, lay out a layer of boiled carrot, it can be rubbed on a medium-sized grater, or finely chopped with a knife. The layer is also smeared with finished mayonnaise. After which they spread the onions, each next layer you need to remember to anoint with mayonnaise.
And the grated yolk completes the recipe for the Mimosa salad without potatoes.
Mimosa salad with pink salmon
The recipe is not fundamentally different from the traditional one. The only exception is fish. In general, the salad is famous for the fact that its ingredients are easily replaced without loss of taste and even improve its quality.
The recipe for Mimosa salad with pink salmon without potatoes is as follows.
For cooking you will need:
- one can of pink salmon;
- half the onion;
- cheese to taste (according to the recipe 120 g);
- five eggs;
- butter or margarine (prescription 55 g)
- mayonnaise to taste.
The cooking method is as follows:
- You need to boil the eggs, peel, finely chop or grate the ingredient.
- Using a fork, crush canned salmon from pink salmon and carefully divide it into small pieces.
- Scalp half the onion with boiling water, since pink salmon is more delicate in taste, then onions are put in this salad in less quantity than in the traditional recipe with sardines or sprats.
- Boil and peel the eggs, finely chop the proteins or grate them. The yolk is left for decoration.
- Grate the oil, pre-freezing it.
- Put in a salad bowl necessarily in beautiful layers, each to taste smearing with mayonnaise. The sequence of layers is: egg white, cheese, butter, pink salmon, onion. Then the top layer is sprinkled with pre-grated yolk. The salad is ready, you can try.
Smoked Salmon Salad
There is another non-trivial recipe for salmon salad. The main highlight of the salad lies in the ingredients.
The composition of the salad includes:
- pink salmon (in this case we use hot smoked fish);
- carrots - one pc.;
- onion - one head;
- egg - seven pcs.;
- cheese (it is better to take hard) - 180-190 g;
- oil - 60 g;
- dill - 1 small bunch;
- mayonnaise to taste.
Cook carrots, peel and grate coarsely. This is the first layer. Lubricate the layer with mayonnaise. Next, prepare the fish. To do this, you need to remove the bones from the pink salmon and finely chop. This is the second layer, they need to cover the carrots, and then grease the layer with mayonnaise. Peel the onion, scald the onion with boiling water and then chop in small cubes. This will be the third layer, it is laid on top of the fish. It again needs to be covered with mayonnaise. Eggs must be divided. Separate the cold squirrels from the yolks. Protein needs to be grated coarsely or cut into small or medium pieces. Sprinkle squirrels on top of a layer of onions, finish with mayonnaise. Butter should be grated. It is recommended to freeze it first, so it will be easier to rub the oil. Lay a layer of oil on top of egg whites. Then grate the cheese on the same grater. This will be the final layer to be greased with mayonnaise and grate the yolk on top.
Pink salmon will make the salad juicy, tender and interesting in terms of taste.
Mimosa salad with saury
Perhaps one of the most beloved ingredients for Mimosa is saury. There are more than a dozen recipes for Mimosa with saury. Consider one of the most delicious!
Mimosa salad with saury without potatoes is prepared similarly with the classic recipe, but rice is usually added to it, which goes well with such fish.
Prepare the following ingredients:
- rice (about 200 g);
- four chicken eggs;
- one large carrot;
- one small onion head;
- one pickled cucumber;
- sugar, salt, vinegar and mayonnaise to taste;
- some water.
Rice is washed and boiled in salted water. The fish should be divided into small pieces with a fork. Carrots and eggs are boiled and peeled and peeled, after which they need to be chopped or grated. In eggs, only protein is rubbed. Onions must be marinated in water and sugar with vinegar for at least half an hour. Cucumber needs to be cut into small pieces.
Lettuce is laid out in layers in the sequence: rice, saury, onion, cucumber, carrot and egg whites. Spread each layer thickly with mayonnaise and let the salad stand in the refrigerator for several hours.
Mimosa Salad with Cream Cheese
Another unconventional, but very unusual ingredient used in the Mimosa salad is cream cheese. Adding it makes the salad nutritious, but tender. Saury is perfect for him.
The ingredients for the Mimosa salad with cream cheese without potatoes are as follows:
- one jar of sardines in oil;
- nine chicken eggs;
- one cream cheese
- one small onion;
- 130-140 g of butter;
- mayonnaise, vinegar and sugar to taste.
Cooking consists of steps.
Hard-boiled eggs, cool and peel, cut. Peel, chop and pickle the onion in a mixture of vinegar, water and sugar. Drain the oil from the sardines, gently knead the fish with a fork or chop. It is advisable to grate the butter, pre-freezing it in the freezer of the refrigerator.
Lay out the salad in layers: protein, sardine, pickled onions, butter, cream cheese. Cover each of the layers with mayonnaise. Garnish with finely grated yolk.
Mimosa salad with apple
This is a Mimosa salad recipe without rice and potatoes; instead, an apple is added to the recipe. For a salad you will need:
- two jars of canned fish;
- 200 g of rice;
- six eggs;
- 250 g of hard cheese;
- one large or two small onion heads;
- two sour apples;
- mayonnaise to your liking.
Cooking method.
Rice is boiled in salt water. Eggs are also boiled, peeled. Squirrels are separated from the yolks and finely chopped or rubbed. Next, you need to knead the canned fish with a fork. Then you need to peel the apple and peel it, the cheese is also rubbed on the same grater. Chop the onion in very small cubes.
Next, the salad is laid out in stages in layers. Coat each subsequent layer with mayonnaise. The sequence of layers does not matter much, but it is better to put the fish next to the onion. Rice goes better with protein, and an apple with cheese. It is better to take hard cheese . However, for those who do not like mayonnaise, take care of the figure and consider the calorie content of dishes, you can replace mayonnaise with cream cheese.
Classical Mimosa
The original version of the dish did not include rice, potatoes, carrots, apples and grated cheese. The classic step-by-step recipe for Mimosa salad includes the following products:
- mayonnaise;
- eggs - six pcs.;
- canned fish - one can;
- onions - one pc.
The ingredients are prepared. To do this, boil the eggs, clean and separate into proteins and yolks. Squirrels are cut to add to the salad, and decorated with yolks. Canned fish knead the fork, onion finely chopped, previously scalding the onion with boiling water. After that, fish, protein, onion are laid out in layers. And of course, we must not forget to decorate the salad with yolk grated on a small grater for the similarity of the salad with mimosa.
It is worth noting that such a simple combination of ingredients allows you to achieve the ease and tenderness of this hearty and high-calorie salad.