A dish called “Fox Tail” is considered one of the most original salads. Its options include various components. There are many recipes. We will consider the methods of preparing this interesting dish, its composition and types in this article.
What components are commonly used?
Making Fox Tail salad involves the use of products such as salted fish (usually salmon, pink salmon, herring), as well as chicken (smoked or boiled). In addition, often the composition of this dish includes mushrooms. It can be champignons, mushrooms, chanterelles, both fried and pickled. Another important ingredient is carrots, spicy (Korean) or boiled. Some culinary experts add crab sticks to the dish, since this component makes the salad especially tender. Products that are used in the preparation of Fox Tail salad are laid out in layers on a plate.
They are covered with mayonnaise or sour cream, diluted with mustard. Sometimes food is decorated with squirrels or yolks of eggs to give it the appearance of the head or tail of a fox.
Dish with Herring Fillet
This salad is an excellent solemn treat. It differs from the traditional “fur coat” in originality and does not leave guests indifferent.
The Fox Tail salad recipe with herring fillet includes the following components:
1. 4 potatoes boiled in a peel.
2. Herring fillet.
3. A little green onion.
4. Refined vegetable oil.
5.200 grams of mushrooms (champignons).
6. A little mayonnaise.
7. Onion.
8. Carrots (3 root crops).
9.4 boiled eggs.
To clean herring fillet, remove the skin, remove the bones. Cut it into squares and place on a flat dish. Grind onion greens. Place on a herring layer.
Cook onions on the stove with the addition of refined sunflower oil and chopped raw mushrooms. Peel the potatoes, chop with a grater, put on a dish, add a little salt, sauce and pepper. Place a layer of mushrooms with onions on top. Grind the eggs with a grater, put on a plate so that the food takes the form of a fox's tail. Cook carrots and grate it. Place on the surface of the salad, pour the sauce. Level the surface. Garnish with boiled egg white. According to the recipe , the Fox Tail salad with herring fillets should be put in the refrigerator and kept there for two hours.
Chicken liver dish option
To make this salad you need products such as:
1. Three potatoes.
2. Onion.
3. Carrot.
4. Three large spoons of refined vegetable oil.
5.300 grams of chicken liver.
6. Five pickled cucumbers.
7. Two cloves of garlic.
8. 4 large spoons of mayonnaise.
9. The minimum amount of black pepper.
Cook potatoes without peeling. Grind with a grater. Cut the liver, carrots and onions into small pieces. Cook on fire with the addition of refined vegetable oil. Cut the cucumbers into slices. Place several layers of salad on the dish. First, put the potatoes, cover it with mayonnaise. Then - mushrooms. The next layer is cucumbers, then the liver with the addition of grated garlic, onions, pepper and carrots.
Salad "Fox tail" must be left for some time, so that all the ingredients are saturated with sauce.
Mushroom and Chicken Dish
In order to prepare such a salad, the following products are needed:
1. Boiled potatoes.
2. Chicken.
3. Champignons.
4. Onion.
5. Refined vegetable oil.
6. The minimum amount of salt, black pepper and mayonnaise sauce.
7. Carrot.
Grind the potatoes with a grater. Chicken (pre-boiled) chop. Mushrooms and onions, cut and fry on the stove with the addition of grated carrots and refined vegetable oil. First, put the potatoes on a plate. Then - chicken with mushrooms and onions. The last layer is carrots.
To cover the Fox Tail salad with chicken, you need mayonnaise.
Food option for those who don’t eat meat
For this dish uses components such as:
1. Salted mushrooms 0, 25 kilograms.
2. At least one hundred grams of onion.
3. Potato (0.3 kilograms) and the same amount of carrots.
4. Three eggs.
5. The minimum amount of mayonnaise.
Boil and chop vegetables and eggs. Cut the onion into thin semicircular slices. Put on a plate mushrooms, onions, a layer of mayonnaise sauce. Then put the potatoes. Add finely chopped eggs. Cover each of the layers with mayonnaise. The last component that is placed on the surface of the Fox Tail salad with mushrooms is grated carrots.
It can be either boiled or pickled.
Fox tail salad with crab sticks
In order to cook this dish, you need components such as:
1. 0.3 kilograms of processed cheese.
2.150 milliliters of sour cream.
3. Crab sticks 0.2 kilograms.
4. 0.3 kg of boiled potatoes.
5. 0.2 kilograms of raw carrots.
6. 20 milliliters of refined vegetable oil.
7. 50 gr fresh dill.
8. A small amount of salt and black pepper.
9. 0.2 kilograms of chanterelles.
Grind fresh dill. Add sour cream, salt and a little black pepper to it. Boil potatoes without peeling vegetables. Then cool them, remove the skin. Grind with a grater. The same thing needs to be done with raw carrots. Mushrooms cook on the stove with the addition of vegetable oil. Cream cheese for salad should be taken slightly frosted. It is crushed with a grater. Crab sticks are cut into squares. The salad should be placed on the dish in layers. First put slices of crab meat sticks, then potatoes. Then put on a plate mushrooms, slices of cheese, carrots. All layers of the dish (except the last) should be covered with mayonnaise sauce. Some housewives make adjustments to the Fox Tail salad recipe. They replace fish with crab sticks. This dish is quite unusual.