Herring Salad
Christmas Recipes Russian Fish and Seafood Salads
An absolutely delicious salad from our "almost" neighbors, the Russians (I mean Russians from Russia, don't assume anything else). It's ever-present on their tables during winter holidays. My friend Olga (from Moldova) advised me not to be tempted to cut the vegetables into cubes like for boeuf salad, but to grate them so it comes out fluffier. And I noticed that this way I can use less mayonnaise between layers, because they bind together anyway, and in the end the salad looks like a little cake.
Ingredients
300 g salted herring (or marinated)
2 larger potatoes
3 carrots
2-3 small beetroots (each about the size of an onion)
1 small onion
2 eggs
3 egg yolks (+ mustard, oil, and salt for mayonnaise)
How to prepare herring salad
- Boil the potatoes in their skins until a fork goes in easily. Boil the whole carrots. Peel the beetroots, cut into quarters, then boil them. Hard boil 2 eggs.
- Check the herring for bones and cut into cubes. Finely chop the onion.
* salted herring in brine is used, but I bought it marinated with a little vinegar too, and it was great. After sitting overnight in the fridge, the vinegar flavor blended with the rest, so it's ok to use marinated herring too. - From the 3 egg yolks, prepare mayonnaise following the instructions here.
- Grate on a large grater (in separate dishes) the potatoes, carrots, and beetroots. If we grate the vegetables, the salad will be fluffier.
- In a 20 cm diameter round pan (with removable sides), start assembling the salad in layers:
- layer of grated potatoes
- layer of mayonnaise (3 tablespoons)
- layer of herring and onion
- layer of mayonnaise (3 tablespoons)
- layer of carrots
- layer of mayonnaise (3 tablespoons)
- layer of grated beetroot
- thicker layer of mayonnaise
- layer of boiled egg yolk passed through a sieve and egg white grated on a small grater - Refrigerate the salad overnight.
Herring cut into cubes
Grated boiled beetroot
Carrot, onion, and mayonnaise
Potato layer
Mayonnaise layer
Decorate with egg
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