Salads - unique dishes. They can be prepared from any products that are at hand in the refrigerator. The combination of seemingly completely dissimilar components sometimes gives an unusually tasty result. Layered salads are very convenient in this regard.
"King prawns under a fur coat"
Sausage, eggs, shrimp, ham, fish, olives give the appetizers a rich, spicy taste. Yes, and satiety too, especially if mayonnaise is taken as a dressing. And vegetables make dishes better digestible, light, mouth-watering. For example, "Shrimp under a fur coat." The salad is very simple, reminiscent of the famous “Herring under vegetables”, only the above-mentioned crustaceans are used instead of fish. The composition of the products is as follows: about half a kilogram of shrimp themselves (preferably king), 3 potatoes (large), 4 eggs, 3 carrots, 1-2 beets, a bunch of green onions. Boil vegetables in salted water without peeling. Hard-boiled eggs, and immediately cool under cold water, so that the shell is easily removed. Put spices in a seafood pan: peas of allspice and hot pepper, bay leaf. How to prepare “Shrimp under a fur coat”: the salad is laid out in layers immediately, on a flat plate. Peel the cooled vegetables and eggs, grind on a grater, only in different containers. Chop onion finely. If there is no green, the onion is also suitable, just pre-pour it with boiling water so that causticity and bitterness leave. Seafood cut in half. Since the appetizer is called “Shrimp under a fur coat,” you need to start laying the salad with them. Crustaceans and will be the first layer. On top, apply a "mesh" of mayonnaise. Further layer by layer (just do not make them thick!) Potatoes, onions, eggs, carrots, beets are stacked. After each component, do not forget to add mayonnaise. Leave some egg crumbs to sprinkle “Shrimps under a fur coat” on top. Spread the salad until one of the ingredients is over. Then coat the last layer with mayonnaise too, garnish with an egg and put the appetizer in the refrigerator to soak well. Yes, vegetables, especially potatoes, you can add salt and pepper for a better taste!
Salad "Merchant"
It’s hard to say why this salad “Shrimps under a fur coat” is called “Merchants”. Maybe because it includes caviar and olives? Whatever it was, but the dish turns out to look elegant, beautiful, bright, it looks rich on the table, and it tastes great! To make it, you need: all the same shrimp (500 g), a jar of red caviar, a jar of seedless olives, several potatoes, greens for decoration. Seafood and potatoes are boiled, peeled. Grate vegetables, cut shrimp. From them make the first layer of the dish. Season with mayonnaise. Then potatoes, which sprinkle with pepper. Mayonnaise again. Throw the olives in a colander, let them drain. Cut lengthwise into halves and lay on top. After smearing, the shrimp turn comes again. But when they are already under mayonnaise, evenly distribute a layer of caviar. Sprinkle the salad with finely chopped greens or just stick a couple of sprigs of fresh parsley or small onions. Beautiful, is not it? And very tasty!
Pyramidal Salad
We offer you another original recipe for salad “Shrimps under a fur coat” - “Pyramidal”. It is called so because all components are stacked with a slide, or a pyramid. Ingredients: boiled potatoes - 4-5 pcs., Prepared shrimps - 300 g, boiled carrots - 2, pickles - 2,
green peas (canned food) - half a jar (about 100 g), a couple of sweet bell peppers, preferably red or yellow . More
green onions and mayonnaise. Peel a potato with 1 carrot and cut into small pieces. Add to them also chopped cucumbers, peas, onions, a little red pepper and a few shrimps. Add salt, flavor well with mayonnaise. Put the main part of seafood on a dish or in a salad bowl, lightly cover with mayonnaise. And top with a vegetable mixture, forming a hill. Cover its base with a second carrot, sliced in circles. And garnish with pepper rings. Let the dish also infuse somewhat before serving.
"Assorted" seafood
Well, lovers of fish delicacies can be pleased with such a
shrimp salad under a "fur coat". For it you will need: a jar of sprats, another one - other canned fish in oil, 200 g of boiled shrimp, a little smoked sausage and hard cheese, ham. As well as a hard-boiled egg, 2 potatoes, several pickled cucumbers, carrots, a couple of spoons of canned peas and small onions. Boil vegetables, peel, and finely chop together with cucumbers. Do the same with shrimp, fish, sausage, ham. Season these products with mayonnaise, mix, lay in an even layer on a dish. Add peas to vegetables, also season, add salt, put on seafood. Cut the egg in a circle, decorate the salad. Sprinkle with grated cheese on top. Beauty!
Bon Appetit!