Salty herring in itself is a rather specific product. Not all people like the rich taste of Iwashi. But the undoubted advantage of herring is that it goes well with a variety of products. Therefore, there are many salads involving this fish. What is only a festive appetizer "Fur coat"! But fish under a blanket of potatoes, boiled eggs, hard cheese and beets is not the only example of what can be served on the festive table as a cold snack. Salads with salted herring come with seasonal vegetables, mushrooms, boiled rice, pasta. In this collection you will find recipes for the most delicious of them.
Winter salad with pickled cucumbers and apples
This is a very simple snack, which takes a minimum of time and products. Grind the fish fillet (200-250 g) into small cubes. We do the same with one red lettuce onion, a large sour apple (without peel and fruit box), two pickled or pickled cucumbers and 2 hard-boiled eggs. Mix sour cream and mayonnaise in equal proportions. Add cucumber cucumber to this sauce.
Now in a beautiful transparent dish or in portioned bowls we begin to spread our puff salad with herring. The fish will lie at the very bottom, onions will be placed on top of it, then a third of the cucumbers in the sauce will go. We put an apple on this layer, on top - another part of the “tartar”. Garnish the salad with chopped eggs, which we also hide under a layer of sauce. This appetizer should be done in advance to let it brew in the refrigerator for a couple of hours.
Mushroom salad
This appetizer is so satisfying that you can successfully replace it with lunch. Two salted herring will need 150 g of mushrooms. If they are fresh, they need to be cleaned and fried in oil. And the canned mushrooms are simply thrown back into a colander to stack the marinade. Boil three medium potatoes in their uniforms, cool, peel, cut into slices. Similarly, chop two pickles, sweet peppers, onions and steep eggs. We cut the boiled carrots into circles. We connect all the components. We season this salad with herring with a mixture of sour cream and mayonnaise, in which you can add a little mustard or horseradish. Optionally, you can add three more spoons of canned green peas. Mix well and put the slide in the dish.
Another salad with herring and peas
This is an original version of the beloved Olivier, only with fish. We chop the herring of the spicy salting, remove all bones as much as possible, cut into small pieces. Finely chop the three potatoes cooked in their uniforms, one carrot, two steep eggs. We cut the onion in half rings. Two pickled cucumbers cut into circles. If season permits, we take large bell peppers, cut the stem with seeds, and cut into small strips. Add a few feathers of the green beam.
If it happens in winter, we’ll use homemade sweet peppers. Mix all the ingredients in a dish. Dress the salad with herring with two tablespoons of mayonnaise. Salt and pepper. An appetizer needs time in order for all the ingredients to come into contact with each other. You can also sprinkle the salad with lemon juice.
What about corn?
It's unusual? Yes. But still spicy herring, neutral rice and sweet milk corn are the perfect flavor combination. First, boil two soup spoons of cereal. Cut a large herring into a fillet, cut it into small cubes, but leave a couple of pieces of stripes for decoration. Add a jar of expressed corn. Next, give free rein to your imagination.
You can chop three hard-boiled eggs and greens in a dish with the ingredients. Or such an option: rub 300 g of hard cheese or squeeze out the same amount of processed cheese through a press. It should be taken into account that pickled onions are added to all salads with herring and corn . If there is no time to mess with it, just chop it with rings and pour over boiling water - this will eliminate the sharp bitterness. And for the marinade, pour a spoonful of sugar in a glass of cold boiled water and pour 3 tbsp. l vinegar. When the onion softens, and this happens in an hour, you can strain it and add it to the salad. Dress the dish with mayonnaise, sprinkle with fresh chopped herbs. Garnish with strips of herring on top.
Velvet Rose
A romantic name, isn't it? This salad with herring is an alternative to the usual “fur coat”, as it also uses beets. But there is also a highlight - canned squid. You can make a salad, as in the classic "Fur Coat", puff, but it will not lose anything if we knock all the components together and mix. The beets are more likely to color the dish pink.
First, cook in a peel until ready three potatoes, four small beets and two carrots. Cool, clean. Two beets will go to decorate the dish, chop the remaining vegetables in small cubes. Finely chop the red lettuce onion, 400 g light-salted herring and about two hundred grams of strained squid. You can buy fresh or frozen seafood, boil them and cut them. Season this salad with mayonnaise. Salt and pepper it. Decoration is an important stage in the preparation of this dish. The two remaining beets are cut into thin half-slices. Season with salt and pepper and pour 6% vinegar. After a quarter of an hour, this marinade is drained. Put the salad into the dish with a slide. We place beetroot “petals” in the form of a rose on top.
Salad with Herring and Beans
And this is a dish of Jewish cuisine. Soak half a glass or slightly more beans overnight, and then boil it until fully cooked. You can also use canned product for salad. But then it should be white beans in their own juice, because dark legumes and even with tomato sauce are not suitable for this purpose. We chop the carcass of salted herring, cut the fillet into small pieces. Cook the potatoes and half the carrots in their uniforms, peel them, chop them into cubes. We chop the onion (preferably pink, Crimean) with quarter rings. Finely chop the greens - mint, parsley, basil, which is at hand. Mix it with a clove or two garlic, passed through a press or mashed in a mortar. We connect all the components, season with salt, pepper, mayonnaise. Fifteen to twenty pitted olives are cut into rings or halves to decorate the salad.