- November 22, 2018
- Salads
- Arina Klein
Herring under a fur coat is a salad of salted fish and vegetables, which is very popular in Russia, as well as in the countries of the former USSR. Since the mid-1970s, this dish has become traditional for the New Year's table.
There are few options for preparing herring under a fur coat. The salad is made from boiled vegetables, onions, and salted fish. All ingredients are flavored with mayonnaise. In some cases, such an appetizer is seasoned with sour cream and products such as boiled chicken eggs, sweet and sour apples, cucumbers, fresh green onions, herbs, etc. are added.
Classic version
You can decorate a herring under a fur coat for the holiday in different ways. However, most chefs prefer to serve this dish to guests in a classic form.
According to the well-known recipe for herring under a fur coat, fish fillets cut into small pieces are placed on a flat plate, and then successively covered with layers of boiled potatoes, finely chopped onions, boiled carrots, and grated boiled beets. In this case, the last vegetable must be placed on top.
To prevent the salted fish salad from being dry, all laid out products are sequentially greased with mayonnaise. The last layer is especially generously flavored with sauce.
How to decorate herring under a fur coat if it was prepared in the classic version? Usually in such cases the finished salad is covered with finely chopped herbs. You can also use individual parsley leaves, which are placed in the center of the appetizer.
Fur coat design ideas for March 8
Now let's look at women's holiday, how to approach it with inspiration? Since on this day it is customary to give flowers to ladies, of course they will act as a symbol.
I also want to use this idea and decorate the salad with such a decoration. You will need boiled beets, cut them thinly into round slices, and then roll them up, green onions in the form of a stem and green leaves.
You can do it in the form of a figure eight:
Look and choose for yourself which of the eights you liked best, which one suits your soul:
In this photo, caviar is even used, and it looks like beads are lying there:
Portioned serving of food
How to decorate herring under a fur coat if the salad needs to be served in portions? In this case, a special molding ring (about 8-9 centimeters in diameter) is usually used. It is placed in the middle of a flat plate and then filled. First, chopped herring is placed in the ring, then chopped onions, boiled potatoes, carrots and beets. All vegetables are pre-grated on a coarse grater. Each layer of salad is generously coated with a mixture of mayonnaise and sour cream.
Having thoroughly compacted the products, the molding ring is carefully removed. To make the appetizer more attractive and satisfying, it is topped with a boiled egg, grated on a fine grater. You can place greens or whole onion arrows along the edges of the plate.
How to decorate for New Year and Christmas
New Year's holidays provide the greatest freedom for culinary creativity, because they are rich in a variety of subjects. This is the kind Grandfather Frost with gifts, and a Christmas tree, and the Moscow chimes, and, of course, folk motifs. To decorate your favorite salad, you can use the following ideas:
- Why not rethink the image of the fish for the New Year's table and present it in the form of a kind of Snow Maiden who comes to us every year for the holiday? We spread the salad mass in the form of a figure - a coat with a hood. The edges can be decorated with finely grated cheese - lovers of classic herring under a fur coat will simply take the salad from the edge where there is no cheese. You can put cranberries in the center, having previously “drawn” a strip with mayonnaise. Our unusual snow maiden made from herring is ready.
- You can make another interesting option using different types of confectionery sprinkles. In the hands of such a Snow Maiden is a sprig of mimosa, which is made from dill and grated egg yolk. Of course, a sprig of mimosa from our beautiful herring is also appropriate for March 8th - we will tell you below how to make efforts for the holiday of lovely ladies.
- Of course, salads can be decorated both as shown in the photo and with the help of your own imagination. It is intuitively clear that you can lay out a fish figurine from the lettuce mass. But other elements can be made from appropriate products. The scales are onion half rings, the fins are carrot triangles; They also make a mouth out of it; the eye is a circle of egg with olives or allspice. Simple and very beautiful.
- The fish can be made in another way. Decorate the scales, mouth and fins with beets and carrots. You will get such a glamorous lady. The eyes are made from eggs and olives. Simply irresistible, isn't it?
- If you apply a layer of mayonnaise to the salad mixture and lay out the scales of olives, and the tails and heads of grated carrots, you get this fish.
- And of course, you can move away from the “fish” theme and present the salad under a fur coat in a more original way. For example, in the form of classic birch and fungi. We “paint” them with olives and mayonnaise, and decorate with parsley.
- Or you can get creative and make a Moscow New Year’s salad. We draw the Kremlin from beets, the dial from egg white. We make a Christmas tree from pickled cucumbers and circles of carrots and eggs. Snow is also made from eggs, and people are cut out from olives. Decorate with mayonnaise and place on the table. Guests will never guess that this “Moscow” salad is based on classic herring under a fur coat.
- And here is a romantic option with a beet rose. How to do it is a separate conversation (more details below). You can make a whole “clearing” from such roses and other flowers. An excellent option for a New Year's feast or even a romantic evening.
- And there is a simpler option with flowers made from corn and olives.
Salad in the form of fish
How to beautifully decorate a herring under a fur coat? To make the appetizer not only tasty, but also original, we recommend decorating it in the shape of a fish. To do this, you need to use a large plate, and also leave some boiled carrots and beets. If you cut vegetables into thin semicircles, they will serve as excellent “scales”, tail and fins.
So, before you beautifully decorate the herring under a fur coat (a photo of the dish is presented below), you should correctly lay out the first layer. To do this, cleaned and finely shredded salted fillet is placed on a plate in the form of a large drop. This will be a kind of fish body.
Having leveled the edges of the “sketch” using a regular spoon, the following layers are laid out on it one by one: onions, potatoes and carrots.
Having thoroughly greased all the products with mayonnaise, they are covered with finely grated beets. At the same time, it should cover all previous layers of the snack.
After brushing the beets with sour cream or mayonnaise sauce, you can start decorating the salad. To do this, use semicircles of vegetables. Carrots and beets are placed on the body of the fish in such a way that they imitate scales. Also, fins and a tail are formed from vegetables, laying them out in the appropriate place. By the way, a bunch of green onions is also good for this role.
As for the eyes, they are made from slices of boiled quail eggs.
If you know how to decorate a salad “under a fur coat” in the shape of a fish using vegetables, but don’t want to bother, cooks recommend “drawing” the scales using mayonnaise. To do this, cut off a corner of the sauce package and use it as a kind of cornet.
How to beautifully serve Herring under a fur coat for a birthday
Well, now let's look at the options on how you can present this salad for your birthday. Is this how you usually present it? How you decorate and what cooking tricks and secrets you use, share in the comments, leave your review or wish.
Usually any holiday is fraught with magic. So let's become wizards and make this dish elegant and colorful in an original, tasteful way.
The first option can be made in the form of a clearing of flowers. Decorate with a mayonnaise mesh, and carefully cut out flowers from boiled eggs and whites with a kitchen knife, and place a piece of carrot in the middle.
This is such a flourishing plot, I would say an anniversary one. Add some color using parsley.
It can be made in the form of a cake, isn’t it a tempting offer? Cut thin circles from beets and carrots. To do this, simply cut the boiled beets and carrots into round slices and wrap the roses, place them on top, as shown in this photo:
Incredibly simple, but looks very elegant, decorate with green peas and celery sprigs.
You can also cheer everyone up by laying out all the ingredients in the shape of a multi-colored rainbow.
If, as they say, you have a feast for the whole world, then you can serve this dish in glasses or bowls, garnishing with sesame seeds on top to make it unforgettable.
Snack in the form of a roll
How to decorate a herring under a fur coat to surprise all invited guests?
If you like to experiment and are not afraid to deviate from traditions, then we recommend that you arrange the snack in question in the form of a roll. How to do it? For this you will need regular cling film. It is carefully placed on a flat surface and then covered with a small layer of coarsely grated beets (so as to form a rectangular layer).
Having flavored the red vegetable with mayonnaise, carrots, potatoes, onions and salted fish (peeled and chopped) are successively laid on it. To make the roll a success, each subsequent layer is made 1-1.5 centimeters smaller than the previous one.
After all the products are on the cling film, begin to form the original snack. To do this, the edges of the polyethylene are lifted and the fish and vegetable layer (large sides of the rectangle) are carefully connected.
Having received the roll, it is carefully laid out on a flat and long dish. At the same time, make sure that the seam of the lettuce is at the bottom.
Shredded lettuce
The traditional recipe for “under a fur coat” salad involves the use of coarsely grated vegetables. However, in some cases, cooks prefer to chop the ingredients into small cubes. How can you decorate a herring under a fur coat in this case? To do this, you should use a deep salad bowl, since the appetizer will not be laid out in layers, but in a mixed form.
So, to make an unusual appetizer with herring, components such as fish fillet, boiled carrots, potatoes and fresh onions must be cut into cubes with sides of 1 centimeter. After this, they should be placed in one container, seasoned with mayonnaise and mixed thoroughly. The resulting “vinaigrette” must be placed in a heap on a previously prepared deep salad bowl.
After compacting the food with a spoon, begin preparing the boiled beets. It is cleaned and coarsely rubbed. Next, the entire “vinaigrette” is covered with the red vegetable, after which it is greased with mayonnaise.
Egg yolks and hard cheese are used as decoration for this dish. The products are grated on a fine grater, and then mixed and sprinkled on the finished salad.
It is advisable to serve such a snack to the table only after three hours in the refrigerator. In this case, the salad must be covered with a lid, otherwise the cheese and egg decoration will dry out.
Festive salad for February 23
I decided to approach Men’s Day with a joke, I don’t know how other men will look at it, mine laughed)))
Nothing seems special, just sculpt the figure of a girl or woman and attach a fish head and tail:
And this beauty actually reminds me of the Snow Maiden, maybe include her in New Year’s resolutions, what do you think?
And this plot can be done without any problems at all:
other methods
How to decorate a herring under a fur coat if its ingredients were chopped into cubes? In fact, there are a huge number of ways to decorate such a snack. After all, with the help of the resulting “vinaigrette” you can give the salad absolutely any shape, be it a heart, a star, a fish, a Christmas tree, the head of Santa Claus, etc. As for the decoration tools themselves, they use a cornet with mayonnaise, circles/semicircles carrots, onion rings, grated cheese or eggs, canned green peas or corn, olives, fresh herbs, cherry tomatoes, etc.
Salad in the form of a sandwich, photo
How to decorate a herring under a fur coat in the shape of a sandwich? To do this you will need to stock up on fresh black bread. It is cut into slices 1.5 centimeters thick and then lightly dried in the oven.
As for the filling for the sandwich, it is made as follows: boiled carrots and beets are grated on a fine grater, and then a clove of garlic, passed through a press, is added to them. After flavoring the products with mayonnaise sauce, mix them thoroughly and obtain a homogeneous mixture. Next, all the slices of black bread (about 1 centimeter thick) are covered with the aromatic vegetable mixture, and a small piece of herring fillet is placed on top of it. If desired, such a snack dish is decorated with a ring of red onion, parsley leaves or a sprig of dill.
Beautiful snack in the shape of a rose
At first glance, it seems that it is simply unrealistic for a cook without the proper experience to make such an appetizer. But that's not true. Even an ordinary housewife can prepare a beautiful salad “Under a Fur Coat” in the shape of a red rose. To do this you will need the usual set of ingredients. All vegetables (except onions) are boiled in salted water, peeled, and then grated on a coarse grater. As for onions and salted fish, they are chopped into cubes.
You will also need products such as fresh cucumber and fresh lettuce to decorate your holiday appetizer.
Before preparing the dish, arrange the dishes for it. It is used as an ordinary flat plate, on which curly lettuce leaves are laid out.
The herring under the fur coat should be formed in the same way as usual. First lay out the fish, then onions, carrots and potatoes. As for beets, you should wait with them.
All of the listed ingredients are sequentially lubricated with mayonnaise. Next, they are covered with grated beets, which are pre-mixed with sour cream (in a separate container). It should be noted that the red vegetable layer cannot be smoothed with a spoon. It should be loose. It is possible that this may require more beets than in the classic preparation.
As soon as the red vegetable covers the entire salad, start decorating it. To do this, use half circles of fresh cucumber. They are stuck into the surface of the snack in such a way that they imitate rose petals. By the way, almost any mixed salad can be decorated in a similar way.
