All sorts of salads are very diverse even the casual table. And we can’t even talk about the holiday! In addition, in addition to the taste splendor, these dishes are very decorated not only the table, but also the room in which it is located. Especially if they were originally conceived in an unusual way - even the very names of culinary masterpieces speak of this already. For example, with
Alat "Fish in the pond." It consists of not-so-sophisticated ingredients, everything is simple and inexpensive, however, thanks to the creative approach and design, it becomes even tastier.
Traditional salad "Fish in the Pond"
Like any dish, "Fish" have several recipes. Like any salad, they can be supplemented with almost anything - as long as the components do not "quarrel" with each other. However, a couple of recipes are executed much more often than others; their components are also found in other variations, so we will consider these recommendations traditional. To get started, we’ll use the classics to cook the Fish in the Pond salad. A step-by-step recipe looks like this.
- Two eggs are boiled, the same amount of potatoes and carrots. In the finished form, everything cools and is cleaned.
- The large onion is cut as finely as possible. If you do not accept its pungent smell and taste - pour boiling water over it. Vinegar is better not to use - the taste and aroma will be different, but even more harsh.
- Bank opens with sprats. If you are going to cook a puff salad with sprats "Fish in a Pond", stock up on canned food with large specimens - this is important. Pieces of fish are cut off from some of the fish, everything else is kneaded into porridge with oil.
- Cream cheese is frozen in the refrigerator and rubbed on a coarse grater.
- Going salad. Each layer is smeared with mayonnaise. The order is as follows: chips of boiled potatoes - sprats - onions - grated eggs - boiled and grated carrots - cheese. The “crown” is again smeared with mayonnaise, cut tails are stuck into it, everything is sprinkled with chopped greens.
The impregnation salad should stand in the refrigerator for an hour.
The second classic recipe
No less popular "Fish in the Pond." The salad differs from the previous one primarily in the absence of carrots and onions. For many culinary experts, the recipe is sweet precisely because boiled carrots are not involved in it: they consider it appropriate in vinaigrette and "fur coat", but superfluous in other salads. Instead of cream cheese, hard cheese is taken. It is recommended to add garlic, but this is how the hostess decides. The rest of the salad "Fish in the Pond" is prepared similarly to the previous recipe; garlic (if you agree to it) sprinkles with the egg layer. In this embodiment, it will also be appropriate to slightly powder the potato layer with ground pepper.
"Fish in the pond" with pineapples
To prepare this option, the potato is removed from the components. Pieces of pineapples are laid out at the bottom of the salad bowl, a large boiled carrot is rubbed on top, and hard cheese is placed on it. In total, it will need 150 grams; this layer takes half. Sprat is spread over the cheese, and the remaining cheese is spread on it. Please note that the layers of cheese - fish - cheese with mayonnaise are not lubricated. Four steep eggs are sorted into squirrels and yolks. The squirrels are rubbed on the cheese evenly and covered with mayonnaise, and the fish in the pond, decorated with crushed and ground yolks, is decorated with stuck tails and a powder of greens. By the way, you can not scatter it unsystematically, but make a border along the edge of the salad bowl.
Cucumber recipe
Very interesting "Fish in the Pond"! The salad is complemented with pickles, and smoked cheese is taken for it. Carrot here again turns out to be superfluous, so it is removed from the list. Otherwise, the dish is prepared in the manner described. Cucumbers stand in line after potatoes, followed by sprats, the last layer is cheese. When making, you can use cucumber circles - they will completely pass for the leaves of a water lily. By the way, in the season of availability of fresh cucumbers, it is quite possible to replace them with salted ones. Only for greater sharpness over them will have to lay out chopped onions.
"Fish in the pond" with frying
The main stages are no different from the sculpting of the classic variety in the first version. The only difference that gives an unexpected taste to a familiar salad is a roast made like in a soup. Raw carrots are rubbed, onions finely chopped, both vegetables are well fried. Ready frying must be cooled and salted, pepper. The “build” sequence is also classic. But the taste of the fish in the pond salad is already new!
Personal Cooking Enhancements
The popularity of the dish is so great that there are even debates about how to cook it properly. There are culinary experts claiming that the Fish in the Pond salad is sparse and suggest rubbing fresh cabbage or cucumber under the cheese. Other chefs insist that the main ingredients - potatoes and carrots - must be finely chopped; through the grater, in their opinion, only eggs should be passed. However, in order to participate in these disputes on an equal footing and evaluate the correctness (or fallacy) of the judgments, you must first prepare the Fish in the Pond salad yourself - at least in a classic version.