Seafood salads are always profitable and advantageous. They are light and nutritious, sophisticated and easy to prepare. For example, let’s take a look at a few original recipes whose “heroes” will be the sprats we love so much. What ingredients should they be combined with to make culinary masterpieces, what to season with and how to decorate - all of this, useful and interesting, you will read in today's article.
Sprat abundance
The theme of our article is a salad with sprats: the recipe “Fish in a Pond” and other goodies. Some 30–40 years ago, jars of this small smoked fish were a delicacy that our parents took out with great difficulty for the holidays. Each sprat was carefully taken out of tin cans and laid out in saucers, surrounded by slices of the same rare then lemons or pitted olives.
Since then, much has changed, shops are bursting with once scarce products, and salad with sprats has become quite common for us. The recipe “Fish in the Pond” is simple in composition of products. But the dish itself is pretty in design and very tasty. You will need for him only 2 carrots, 3 potatoes, 4 eggs, a can of canned food and a bag of mayonnaise. Plus grams of 100 hard cheese. And more
lettuce leaves.
Recipe "Fish"
How is this salad made with sprats prepared? The recipe for “Fish in a Pond” looks like this: boil carrots and potatoes in salted water. Then peel and grate on a coarse grater. Finely chopped hard-boiled and peeled eggs. Mash the sprats with a fork, just do not forget to leave 5-7 pieces whole, for decoration. Place lettuce leaves on plates. They will serve as decoration. And now lay the salad with sprats in layers.
The recipe "Fish in the Pond" advises you to start with canned food. Spread mashed sprats evenly in a circle shape. Make a mayonnaise net on top. The second layer is potato. You can sprinkle it with ground black pepper and pour lightly with sprat oil. Mayonnaise again. The third should be carrots. Add it slightly, add butter and mayonnaise too. Next, eggs, a layer of Provence and grated cheese. Now attention: you need to decorate a salad with sprats. "Fish in the pond" - it is not in vain that the dish is called that. Carefully make holes in the salad in a teaspoon and stick whole fish in them with the tails up. And between them or in the center of the "composition" place the feathers of
green onions or sprigs of dill or parsley. Well, how spectacular? And very tasty too!
Canned salad
The next dish to our holiday table is a salad with sprats and peas. It also includes 2 large potatoes, several tablespoons of pickled or salted mushrooms, canned green peas, 1 onion, mayonnaise for dressing. Cut the sprats into small pieces. Boil potatoes in their uniforms, cool, cut into cubes. Chop the onions into thin half rings. Cut the mushrooms into strips, rinsing them first and folding them into a colander. Combine the products, add the peas. Pour sprat oil and season with mayonnaise. Shuffle. It would be nice to garnish the food with halves of pickled plums, and you can serve it on the table. The same dish will be like hot cakes.
Assorted fish and vegetables
Unusual taste may seem to you a salad with sprats and corn. However, once you try it, you will become loyal fans of snacks. Moreover, the dish consists of a large number of vegetables, which means it is very useful. Ingredients: 2 boiled potatoes and 1 carrot and turnip each (just do not take a turnip like in a children's fairy tale - 1 small or half an average is enough for a salad!), Several pickled or fresh cucumbers, a jar of canned corn. Sprats cut into pieces. Boiled vegetables - in cubes, cucumbers - in thin slices. Combine the products, add salt and pepper, season with mayonnaise. Boil 1 egg separately. Cut it into slices, and the cucumber with elongated oval slices. Lay out the salad, decorate with egg and cucumber, let the brew stand for a couple of minutes and try it!
Rainbow Salad
A total of 3 components consists of a salad with sprats and carrots. But his taste does not suffer from this at all! Hard boil 3 carrots and 5 eggs. Mash sprats. They will be the basis of the delicacy. Lubricate with mayonnaise. The second layer is carrot, the third is egg. A mesh of mayonnaise between them and on top. And you can decorate it with pomegranate seeds or chopped feathers of green onions. Such a salad will delight the taste and eye on any holiday table.
Again mushroom theme
A wonderful variety of canned fish appetizers is a salad with sprats and potatoes, stewed mushrooms, eggs, pickles and green onions. Approximately 300 gr. boil fresh mushrooms until cooked in salted water. Then cut into thin slices and simmer them in a white sauce. Boil 3 pieces of potatoes, peel and cut into cubes. Chop up sprats and cucumbers. Hard boil 4 eggs. 3 crumble. Chop a small bunch of green onions. Combine the ingredients in a salad with sprats and mushrooms, add salt to taste and season with the same mushroom sauce. If not enough, add some mayonnaise or sour cream. Cut the remaining egg into slices or slices and decorate the salad laid on the plate with it. Slices of red and yellow tomato or a ring of sweet bell pepper will also look good here. Sprinkle the salad with parsley. Let all the components soak in the dressing, and hurry up to enjoy a wonderful meal!