New Year is already very close, and every housewife knows what she will put on the festive table. These are traditional olivier, crab, herring under a fur coat, sandwiches with caviar and other trivialities. But sometimes you want to add variety to this standard list. It turns out that this can be easily implemented with the most ordinary products. In this matter, for example, pita bread with herring will help. But how - now we’ll figure it out.
Pita rolls with herring
You will be surprised, but this simple combination is perfect for any festive table in the form of an independent dish or snack, which perfectly complements a feast with Russian strong drinks. After all, it is very convenient - drank, ate. Or just grabbed a piece of pita bread with herring to kill a worm.
Domestic housewives came up with this simple, but interesting dish, having seen enough of Western "colleagues". They actively use salmon or trout for these purposes. But due to the fact that in our country this is a rather expensive pleasure, and we are still raised for herring and we are more familiar with it, the local culinary specialists fussed around, changed the recipe, and now they roll rolls and stuff only with it.
Now we offer you the most interesting and common pita recipes with herring in the form of rolls.
Herring under a fur coat in pita bread
Yes, you heard right. A traditional New Year's salad of herring under a fur coat can be served on the table in a completely unusual way, and it is prepared a little easier than the original dish. Essentially, just one more ingredient is added, and the serving method becomes non-trivial.
To prepare herring under a fur coat in pita bread you need:
- slightly salted Atlantic herring - one carcass;
- two Armenian pita breads;
- two medium-sized beets;
- a small carrot;
- two chicken eggs;
- two medium potato tubers
- mayonnaise to taste.
Getting started cooking
First you need to clean the fish properly, remove the ridge and bones from the carcass and cut it into strips about a centimeter wide. While doing herring, boil eggs and vegetables. When they are ready, we clean them and rub them on a fine grater without stirring, since everything will be formed in layers as in the legendary salad.
We take two pita breads and cut each into two parts. We put the first sheet of pita bread, coat it with mayonnaise and spread the beets. Next comes the second piece of pita bread, which, after smearing with mayonnaise, is covered with carrots on the entire surface. The third layer is egg, and the fourth is potato. But the last one needs to be slightly smeared with mayonnaise on top, so that the roll is better grasped. When the base is ready, it is the turn for the fish. We spread the pieces of herring on the sides in such an amount that you think is optimal, after which we turn the pita bread from the edges to the center and separate it with a knife.
The resulting sausages are tightly tightly wrapped in cling film and sent to the refrigerator for several hours so that the roll not only takes on the desired shape, but is also saturated. When this happens, it will turn pink-purple and dense. Then the roll can be cut into individual pieces with a thickness of at least two centimeters. It is important to use a very sharp knife, otherwise all efforts will go down the drain. Such an unusual presentation of the traditional element of the New Year's table will definitely surprise your relatives and guests.
Gentle roll with herring
This recipe for pita bread with herring is not just called tender roll. It is this property that gives it cottage cheese, but first things first.
To prepare this snack you will need:
- herring fillet;
- Armenian lavash;
- cottage cheese;
- pickled cucumbers;
- fresh dill;
- a bunch of green onions;
- and some mayonnaise.
We spread pita bread with cottage cheese. After the pita bread is missed, sprinkle it with dill and spread the pieces of herring half along the pita bread. Then sprinkle everything with chopped onions, make a mayonnaise grid and finish with grated pickles on a coarse grater. Fish should be placed only on 1/2 of the surface so that it is more convenient to wrap all this beauty, while the rest of the ingredients should cover the entire working surface.
When everything is laid, tightly turn the pita bread with herring into a roll and put it in the refrigerator for a couple of hours. So that the appetizer does not lose its shape, you can tighten it with cling film, but this can lead to the Armenian bread becoming too wet, so act on your own. After the roll is set, you can cut it into pieces, sprinkled with fresh herbs or sesame seeds on top.
Variations
Since the recipes of rolls appeared among the people as folklore, then you can safely replace some ingredients with others at your discretion. It all depends on how your house is used to eating herring. Someone like the combination of fish with cucumbers, both fresh and pickled. Others do not imagine fish without onions stewed in vinegar. Still others prefer to add mushrooms. Imagine, experiment, and everything will turn out.
Housewife tips
We recommend using Almette cheese with cucumbers from the Hohland company for a gentle roll, as its consistency and taste are best suited for such an appetizer.
Experienced housewives recommend using ready-made fish fillets, since the process of fish filing is rather laborious. In addition, not every representative of the fair sex knows how to cut herring into fillet without bones. If you don’t know, but really want to know, then the video instruction below will tell you in detail about the process and allow you to master the extraordinary “art”.
We wish you excellent cooking and bon appetit!