Not a single feast can do without such an appetizer as a salad. Each hostess tries to treat her guests with something new and unusual. A good substitute for the beloved puff appetizer “Herring under a fur coat” will serve as an unusual salad “Fox coat”. Despite the simplicity of preparation, the dish has a delicate and original taste that will appeal to most. Try to cook this appetizer on the weekend, and perhaps it will become a regular on your holiday table.
"Fox Coat" - salad with mushrooms and herring
Most often, such an appetizer is prepared using ordinary herring, but you can treat yourself and loved ones on holidays by putting light-salted salmon or pink salmon instead. But first, let’s take a look at the Fox Coat salad recipe in its classic version. So, for this we need to prepare the following products:
- Three to four potatoes.
- Fillet of one herring.
- Four chicken eggs.
- Two medium-sized carrots.
- Champignons - approximately 200-250 grams.
- Onion head.
- Mayonnaise and salt to taste.
If you decide to immediately try the option with red fish, then it will take about 300 grams.
Recipe
At the initial stage of preparation of the salad "Fox Fur" you need to boil eggs and potatoes. After they have cooled, cut them into small cubes. Herring, if you took a whole carcass of fish, cut it into fillets and cut it into cubes.
Then we rub the washed and peeled carrots on a coarse grater. Grind onions and mushrooms in random order. Then heat the oil in a pan. Fry mushrooms with onions on it and salt them a little. Separately, we pass the grated carrots.
You can begin to form a salad. It is laid out in layers in the following order:
- Herring in cubes.
- Potatoes with salt.
- Mayonnaise.
- Eggs (they are also covered with mayonnaise).
- Mushrooms fried with onions.
- The final layer is carrots fried until half ready. It should also be covered with a thin layer of mayonnaise. Then you should put the salad in the refrigerator for impregnation. Before serving, the appetizer is decorated in random order.
Cooking Chicken Snack Option
If the combination of salted fish and fried mushrooms seems unacceptable to you, then you can cook the salad "Fox Coat" with chicken. To do this, we should prepare the following ingredients:
- approximately 300 grams of chicken breast;
- canned mushrooms (it is better to take champignons) - 250 grams;
- one medium onion;
- Ready Korean carrots - 150-180 grams;
- mayonnaise;
- 9 percent vinegar and sugar for pickling onions;
- salt.
Ordinary table vinegar can be replaced with apple or wine, it will give a pleasant taste and aroma to your snack.
Cooking steps
To prepare the Fox Coat salad with chicken, you must first boil the meat in water with salt and spices. Remove the cooled meat from the broth and cut into small cubes.
Next, boil the chicken eggs for seven minutes. After cooling them, peel them and rub on a coarse grater. Cut marinated champignons into small pieces.
Peel the onions from the husks, chop finely and set to marinate with vinegar and sugar for ten to fifteen minutes. After that, it is necessary to squeeze it well from excess fluid.
When all the ingredients for the salad "Fox Fur" are prepared, you can begin to assemble it. The layers go in the following order:
- Boiled Chicken Fillet.
- Mayonnaise.
- Onion marinated in vinegar.
- Canned Mushrooms.
- Mayonnaise.
- Chicken eggs.
- Mayonnaise.
- Korean carrot.
On top of the salad, you can decorate with sprigs of herbs or in random order.
If you want to surprise your guests, you can serve any version of the salad by forming layers in the shape of a chanterelle on a flat dish.