Probably many people love canned fish. And such an appetizer, as the sprat in tomato sauce salad, is prepared by every second hostess for the winter. This dish goes well with more than just potatoes. When cooking, it is permissible to use not only sprats. You can take zander, herring or capelin. Of course, fish must be cleaned before cooking.
Winter salad with sprats and vegetables
To make such an appetizer you will need:
- Tomatoes - 4 kilograms.
- Sprat - 2 kilograms.
- Onions - 1 kilogram.
- Carrots - 1 kilogram.
- Sugar - 1 cup.
- Salt - three large spoons.
- Vegetable oil - 1 cup.
- Vinegar 9% table - 6 tablespoons.
Cooking
In order for a salad with sprats to be tasty and aromatic for the winter , it is necessary to prepare products. Fish need to be cleaned from the insides. The heads are also worth removing. After this, the sprat should be washed. In a deep frying pan you need to pour a little vegetable oil and water. After that, put the container on the fire and put the fish in it. Stew the product for about 20 minutes. During cooking, fish should be turned over. It is better to do this with a spatula, as the sprat breaks very easily.
Tomatoes must be washed, dried and minced. Carrots need to be peeled and grated. Pour vegetables into a separate container. The onion heads should be peeled off and, cut into half rings, added to carrots and tomatoes. Boil the mixture for about 40 minutes. In vegetables, you need to add more salt and sugar. At the end of cooking, pour vinegar into the sauce. The finished composition should be combined with fish and put in banks. Tanks are hermetically rolled up. That's all. Salad with sprats for the winter is ready. This dish will appeal to the whole family.
Winter sprat salad
The recipes for this snack are so different that it is very difficult to choose the right one. Here is another way to cook an interesting dish. To make a salad for the winter with sprats, you will need:
- Frozen or fresh sprat - 600 grams.
- Tomato juice - 400 milliliters.
- Onions - 200 grams.
- Fresh carrots - 150 grams.
- Vegetable oil, preferably sunflower.
- Flour - a few large spoons.
- Sugar - a tablespoon.
- Salt.
- Allspice - 4 peas.
- Coriander - 10 peas.
- Bay leaf - 6 pieces.
- Vinegar 9% - 40 grams.
Cooking process
This winter salad with sprats and vegetables is prepared quickly and easily. First of all, prepare the products. To do this, the fish must be thawed, preferably at room temperature. Sprat must be cleaned before cooking. To do this, it is worth separating the head from each fish, as well as removing the insides. The product must be washed well. Otherwise, the salad for the winter with sprats will turn out tasteless. After washing, the fish should be thrown into a colander. This will remove excess fluid.
The onion heads also need to be peeled, and then, having washed thoroughly, cut into half rings. You need to put the pan on the fire and, pouring a little vegetable oil into it, heat it up. After that, pour the chopped onions into the container and fry it.
Carrots should be peeled, washed, and then chopped in a blender. The prepared product must be put in a pan to the fried onions and continue cooking.
Heat treatment
Ready vegetables should be transferred to a pan with a thick bottom. To prepare a salad for the winter with sprats, you can use a cauldron. Fish should be laid out for stewed vegetables. Sugar, bay leaf, allspice, salt should be added to the salad.
Now you can make the sauce. You need to add wheat flour to tomato juice. The product should be sieved beforehand. Flour will make the sauce thicker during further cooking.
In the pan with salad, pour the resulting composition and gently stir. Otherwise, a fragile fish will fall apart. After that, you need to reduce the heat to a minimum and simmer all 40 minutes. You can also cook this appetizer in a slow cooker. To do this, select the "Extinguishing" function.
If the salad with sprats is closed for the winter, then at the end of cooking it is worth pouring vinegar into it. This will allow the snack to be stored longer. The finished snack can be laid out in banks and rolled up.
Sprat with vegetables
To make a salad, you need:
- Three kilograms of sprats.
- Three kilograms of beets.
- One kilogram of onion.
- One kilogram of tomatoes.
- Table vinegar 9%.
- Salt.
- Vegetable oil.
- Sugar.
How to cook a sprat with vegetables
Sprats need to be cleaned by removing the insides and heads. After this, the fish should be washed and discarded in a colander. While the water is draining, other components can be prepared. You need to chop the tomatoes with a meat grinder, grate the beets, cut the onions in half rings. Vegetables should be mixed and placed in a deep pan. After that, add half a glass of vegetable oil to the mixture and simmer until tender.
Sprats should be slightly blanched. After this, the fish, along with the oil, must be added to the vegetable mixture. The finished composition must be brought to a boil, and then simmer for 30 minutes. Sugar, salt, pepper must be added to the salad. At the end of cooking, add vinegar. In this case, it is worth observing the proportions. For every half-liter of lettuce, ½ teaspoon of vinegar is required. You need to add the component to the pan or cauldron with a snack.
Ready salad must be put in jars, and then sterilized for 20 minutes in water. That's all, it remains only to roll up, cover the hot containers and wait for them to cool.