A new dish on the festive table is always intriguing. But the reaction of the guests may be different. Do not spoil your mood. Cook the expected dishes, but with a twist. Recall how to make Ocean salad. Little secret: the main ingredient is canned fish.
Options can be different: mackerel in oil, horse mackerel, sardine. Try to use sprats - this is a worthy replacement as a composition in a salad and decoration on the finished product. A delicate dish requires boiled and finely ground ingredients.
Ocean salad with sprats
Slightly smoked small fish will give an intriguing aftertaste to the traditional dish.
Prepare the products :
- sprats - 1 can of 125 g;
- boiled carrots - 1 pc.;
- hard-boiled eggs - 3 pcs.;
- boiled rice - 100 g;
- hard cheese - 80 g;
- any mayonnaise to taste.
Those who can’t imagine a dish without it can add onions to the salad. Do not add salt: canned food, cheese and mayonnaise contain it.
Cooking technology
- Drain excess oil from canned food, 3 whole sprats will be required for decoration. Grind the fish and place on a dish. One layer is ready.
- To soften the taste of the next layer is called the taste of carrots, mashed and mixed with grated egg white. This was the 2nd layer.
- Boiled rice, mix 1 egg yolk and lay with the 3rd layer.
- The last layers are yolk and grated cheese. Coat each intermediate layer with mayonnaise.
- The top layer is decorated with only three fish. Small dill along the edge of the dish resembles algae.
Those who prefer potatoes instead of rice should first boil the potatoes, cool and chop them.
Ocean Salad, recipe with photo
The salad with light-salted salmon has a wonderful taste and appearance.
Components :
- Cool eggs - 4 pcs.
- Salted salmon - 200 g.
- Red caviar - 100 g.
- Lettuce - 1 pcs.
- White rice - 100 g.
- Ryaba sauce - 120 g.
Hard-boiled eggs pass through the egg cutter. Cool boiled rice . Chop the salad onions with a knife. Cut the salmon into cubes less than 1 cm in size.
Mix all components in a large container with mayonnaise. Put on a beautiful dish and shape. The top layer is a decoration of red caviar. The handsome Ocean salad is ready.
The ingredients can be stacked in layers, and due to the shape - for example, heart, fish, circle - our dish will become interesting without unnecessary decorations.
Make a new dish
A very small addition in cooking - and the result is a blue lake, ocean, sea. This is Blue Ocean Salad. And the trick is simple. Be sure to buy red cabbage. There will be no cabbage in the salad. We need its purple juice in the amount of 1/3 cup. Grind a piece of cabbage in a blender and squeeze the juice. If the cabbage is not very juicy, add a little water.
Cool hard-boiled eggs . Separate the protein layer, grate and fill in a small bowl with red cabbage juice. At least 30 minutes, the protein should be stained. The color of the protein becomes bluish. Here’s the riddle and it was solved why the salad is “Blue”.
For salad, prepare :
- soft boiled rice - 1 cup;
- hard-boiled eggs - 3 pcs.;
- steamed carrots - 1 pc.;
- crab meat - 1 pack;
- boiled shrimps - 150 g;
- mayonnaise - on each layer;
- juice of red cabbage - 1/3 cup.
Cooking technology
Lubricate the layers of salad with mayonnaise.
- 1st layer - rice mixed with yolks.
- 2nd - boiled chopped carrots.
- 3rd - chopped crab sticks.
- 4th — blue squirrels.
- 5th - shrimps laid at the edges.
Additional layers can be green onions, boiled squid. Experiment with small portions. If the supplements are to your taste, feel free to use them in this salad.
The components of the Ocean salad vary depending on the products that the hostess found. You can color egg whites with fresh beetroot juice. They will turn pink. The taste of this will not be worse, and the appearance of the dish will change. Come up with a name for it.