One of the favorite spring holidays is March 8th. It is on this day that it is customary to give women bouquets of spring flowers. But women themselves are ready to decorate any holiday with their own hands. So, in the middle of the 20th century, our women managed to pamper their loved ones with delicious and beautifully decorated dishes, despite the fact that many, almost all products, with the exception, perhaps, of eggs and canned fish, were absent on store shelves. It was from them that enterprising housewives were able to create a solemn salad, characterized by colorful spring decoration and excellent taste. It was Mimosa’s fish salad that became the decoration of the table in those years on International Women's Day, and many other celebrations. Outwardly, always the same mimosa salad , the recipe for cooking was different. External unity was achieved due to decoration with an egg yolk, which was rubbed and sprinkled on top of the salad to give the salad an external resemblance to a fragrant spring mimosa flower. The most important thing is that the mimosa salad, the recipe for its preparation is very simple. At school, at labor or home economics lessons, we were told how to make a mimosa salad, along with other popular salads: olivier and vinaigrette. You can make mimosa fish salad with your children.
What attracts us now mimosa salad, the recipe for its preparation is passed from mouth to mouth? Most likely, because it is easy to prepare, does not require expensive ingredients, and, most importantly, because its decoration with egg yolk gives a festive spring mood, brings warmth and sunshine to the house, which is important after a long winter and cool.
What is needed and how to make a mimosa salad?
A classic mimosa salad, the recipe for its preparation begins with products: canned fish, hard cheese, onions, chicken eggs and mayonnaise. Canned fish, the best is pink salmon, you need to knead with a fork and put the first layer in a salad bowl. Next, onions are chopped finely and spread on top of the slave. Cover the onion with mayonnaise. Then boiled eggs are sorted into proteins and yolks. Rub the proteins and spread the next layer, and grease the mayonnaise on top. Next, grate any of the hard cheeses and lay another layer of salad, which on top will be covered with mayonnaise again. We complete the salad with yolks grated and laid on top of mayonnaise. We send a masterpiece for cooling in the refrigerator. The resulting salad is distinguished by its delicate taste and design.
Do not forget about how popular the mimosa salad is, each housewife changed the recipe for its preparation to her taste and preferences of households. Thrifty housewives use almost everything that is at hand for this dish: carrots, cream cheese, apples, a variety of canned food from various fish, etc.
The most common canned fish for this salad is pink salmon in its own juice, salmon, tuna, saury, cod, hot red fish and crab sticks.
What layers can be laid in such a salad? There are many options: carrots, boiled potatoes, various cheeses, including processed cheese, rice, apples, croutons, corn, etc.
Onions for this salad can be used by anyone, but for those who do not really like onion bitterness, you can offer to chop the onions and heat them in the microwave for about 10 seconds. You can remove the bitterness from the onion, if you pour boiling water over it, you can add salt and vinegar, or soak it for 20 minutes in cold water.
It is advisable to spread onions on fish, since these ingredients complement each other, so they can even be mixed. In order for the yolks to be better attached during the design of the salad, it is recommended to mix them with grated butter, or lay out the butter, and already put the grated yolks on it.