Herring under the fur coat: recipe, decoration

Among all the snacks, the most popular areOn holidays, the classic Russian salad of salted herring and boiled vegetables is popular. It must be said that each family has its own original recipe for the dish. However, there is also a generally recognized, traditional version.

What is necessary for cooking

First of all, you need to stock up on food.The proposed list includes ingredients for 10 servings of the salad "Herring under a fur coat". Depending on the number of guests, you can reduce or, on the contrary, increase the amount of ingredients, observing the proportions.

500 g of salted herring fillets;
2-4 beets;
4-5 potato tubers;
2-3 carrots;
4-5 chicken eggs;
Onion - 1 pc.;
250 g of mayonnaise or sour cream;
Canned green peas;
Fresh green parsley.

To prepare a classic salad, you don’t needadd salt, as it already contains salted herring fillet. It is better to buy not fillets, but whole salted fish, as its meat is more tender. Of course, you will have to spend time removing bones and skin, but the taste of the dish will be much more pleasant. Vegetables, except for onions, must be boiled until fully cooked. When they cool, they need to be peeled and grated separately on a coarse grater. Chicken eggs are boiled hard and left to cool in cold water. This will make it easier to remove their shells.

How to make a dish

For this dish you need to prepare a nice flat surface.a plate or a special herring dish. The layers begin to be laid out with the herring fillet. It can be cut finely or quite coarsely, it all depends on the hostess's preference. Having carefully laid out the sliced herring on a plate, it is greased with mayonnaise. The second layer is made of onions. It should be cut into thin half rings. To rid the vegetable of a sharp bitter taste, it is recommended to scald the half rings with boiling water. You should not keep the onion in hot water for a long time, it will lose its crunch. Next comes the turn of potatoes, grated on a coarse grater. After it come layers of carrots and egg whites, also grated through a coarse grater. Each laid layer must be greased with mayonnaise. Grated beets are placed on top of the dish. The salad is almost ready. It remains to make a festive decoration. Usually, laying out the last beet layer, the hostess forms the dish with her hands. The surface is covered with mayonnaise and generously sprinkled with crushed egg yolk. You can make herring under a fur coat with green peas, which are used to decorate the surface, laying out original patterns. You can simply sprinkle the dish with chopped parsley. Some housewives prefer to cook herring under a fur coat not with mayonnaise, but with sour cream. In this case, you can make a special sauce for spreading the layers from sour cream with the addition of mashed garlic and a few drops of lemon juice. Regardless of the recipe used, herring under a fur coat should stand in the refrigerator for a couple of hours so that all the ingredients are soaked in the sauce. Therefore, the dish should be prepared early.