Well, what have you got on any New Year: salad Olivier yes "fur coat", "fur coat" yes Olivier. After all, there are many different snacks, salads, slices and canapes in the world - there is where to show and consolidate your culinary imagination, which has gone wild. But among all overseas delights and goodies, nothing will amaze you with its excellent taste and at the same time elegant simplicity of execution, like an ordinary (or still unusual?) Herring cake.
Ode snack
It is made using simple waffle cakes purchased in a nearby supermarket or bakery. Well, and the corresponding filling, about which variations we will tell a little later. In general, it is prepared easily and simply, but it looks quite solid and presentable. Yes, herring cake can overshadow Olivier with a "fur coat" at the winter (and not only) festive feast. And since it is an absolute hit and a culinary novelty - the appetizer is obtained not just some obscure, but on top! Very tender, melts (without exaggeration) in the mouth, leaving behind a delicate aftertaste of herring. Surely you will also become grateful fans of this snack food, which will become the decoration of the festive table. And not one of the guests will leave you without asking for this recipe. Well, are you ready to try to build it?
Waffle cake herring cake: a basic recipe
For execution, we will need very simple ingredients: wafer shortcakes - packaging, one large slightly salted herring, 3 eggs, 2 carrots, 150 grams of hard cheese, Provence mayonnaise - for dressing, greens - for decoration.
Practical part
- We put boil eggs and carrots.
- In the meantime, we start cleaning the fish. It is necessary to cut it by the type of fillet, removing the seeds and removing the skin (of course, having previously pulled out the insides and separating the head). Then we cut the main product into small strips or cubes, as you prefer.
- Wash our hands and remove the eggs and carrots from the water. Cool and clean. Dice finely or coarsely with three on a grater.
Dish assembly
- We begin to collect our herring cake. We put a few drops of mayonnaise on the dish and lay the first cake (just like that, it will be better to stay on the plane).
- We apply the first layer of mayonnaise, then half the amount of herring. Lightly coat with mayonnaise.
- Cover again with cake. We also smear it with mayonnaise, and grated carrots on top.
- Next, put the next cake, again mayonnaise - and already sprinkle with an egg.
- Repeat steps 2-4 again.
- Lubricate the topmost layer with mayonnaise and grate the cheese on top coarsely.
- From above, you can decorate with egg slices and fresh chopped greens.
- Let the herring cake soak (at least 3 hours at the bottom of the refrigerator). Now you can serve the table!
About mayonnaise
As you can see, quite a lot of such an ingredient as mayonnaise was used in the basic recipe. Therefore, of course, it must be of the highest quality. And if you do not tolerate various food additives, then you can always cook it yourself with a blender - this is easy. You will need vegetable oil (preferably olive), eggs, mustard. The more oil you inject, the higher the percentage of fat content. All components of homemade sauce should be placed in a blender and beat until thick. That's all - it is possible to grease cakes without any fear. Those who don’t really like this ingredient in salads at all can be advised to coat a small amount of crusts. Of course, they will be worse saturated, but herring cake will become "dietary", if this word is generally applicable to this dish. Well, or at worst - take mayonnaise with a lower percentage of fat content (20-30%).
Waffles
As for the cakes for the herring cake recipe, they can also be all sorts of different. From the store it is best to choose a round shape. Or square, so that the whole design is like a cake. You can, of course, “get confused” and bake this ingredient with your own hands. As they say, the Internet will help you. But this is a completely different story.
"Fur coat" in the cake (or "cake in a fur coat"?)
By the way, herring cake on wafer cakes can be made according to the type of classic herring under a fur coat, having somewhat improved and modernized the traditional recipe. In principle, the flaky structure of this work of culinary art disposes to this. And the impregnated, slightly crispy waffles inside the herring cake on the cake layers seem to differentiate the components, which looks, at least, elegant. Moreover, such an innovation helps the “fur coat” to keep its shape perfectly.
Simple cooking!
Take the same ingredients as for the classics. Namely: herring, carrots, beets, potatoes, mayonnaise, eggs. Just add waffle cakes as well.
We perform the following actions:
- Cook vegetables, eggs, cool and clean.
- All of the above boiled components are three on a grater separately.
- We clean herring from skins and viscera. We remove the head and take out the bones, as for a fillet. Then cut into cubes or strips.
- On the prepared dish, put a round cake made of waffles. We coat it with mayonnaise.
- Above is a layer of herring. Then the potato. And one more cake.
- Grease with mayonnaise again. A layer of carrots and beets. Cake and mayonnaise again.
- Repeat the sequence in the same order. We coat the topmost cake with mayonnaise and sprinkle with a layer of grated egg and cheese (you can do without it).
- For impregnation, put the cake for three hours in the very bottom of the refrigerator. Then we additionally decorate (for example, fresh herbs) and serve on the table as an excellent snack - along with the rest of the salads.
About the onion
Some in the recipe for a waffle herring cake to herring prefer to add also onions. In order that he does not give excessive bitterness, you need to clean it, cut into half rings and scald with boiling water (or pre-soak in a weak solution of vinegar). Then we express the liquid. The ingredient itself in the cake follows after the herring. Well, for those who do not like onion aroma and taste too much, we recommend that you do without this ingredient at all.
With mushrooms
We will need the following ingredients. Salted herring - one (choose fatter, well, if with caviar or with milk - the dish will only win). Onions - a few small pieces of medium size, a pound of champignons, boiled carrots - several small, hard cheese - 150 grams (any favorite will do). Mayonnaise - 250 grams (it is better to make, of course, homemade, but you can also take the store version), green onion, parsley, basil. Olives in the amount of several pieces (used to decorate the cake), wafer shortcakes - packaging.
Preparatory work
- Boil the carrots in advance, let it cool.
- Fry mushrooms with onions, not too coarsely chopped.
- Clean the herring, as on a fillet: remove the skin, remove the fins with bones, separate the ridge.
- Grind the fillet and 1 peeled onion in a blender.
- Grate the carrots.
- Grind the cooled mushrooms in a blender.
- Grate the cheese finely, and chop the greens with olives medium-sized.
Assembly
- On the 1st wafer cake, carefully spread the chopped herring with a beam, evenly distribute it on the surface, lubricating with mayonnaise.
- On the 2nd cake we spread the mushrooms with a fried onion, generously coat with mayonnaise and cover with the next cake.
- He goes with a carrot. We also soak it with mayonnaise.
- After this layer, repeat the steps: herring / mushrooms / carrots. And the last of the layers with carrots is thoroughly pressed with grated cheese, greased with mayonnaise.
- Decorate herring cake with olives and chopped herbs. By the way, if you still have the filling, the layers can be repeated. So it will be much tastier!
- We send the finished product down the refrigerator so that it is infused for several hours. There, the cake will be soaked, it will sit a little, it will become completely ready for serving on the holiday table. By the way, instead of a herring, you can use both mackerel and large herring. A dish with smoked fish looks very interesting.
Bon appetit to all!