Salad, rolls and cake “Herring under a fur coat”: unexpected images of a traditional snack

At first glance, everything is simple: it is enough to lay the ingredients in layers, and a delicious herring wrapped in a "fur coat" is ready. However, to get the dish “with a twist”, you need to know a few secrets.

Legends of the dish

There are several versions of the story of the appearance of a favorite salad. The hero of the most common of them - Anastas Bogomazov - the owner of several taverns and taverns in Moscow at the beginning of the XX century. Resourceful cook Bogomazov Aristarkh Prokoptsev proposed a special "salad of the world." In inventing the dish, he pursued several goals:

• fight warning - a nutritious dish served as an excellent snack for a drink, which allowed visitors to stay in a clear mind longer and significantly reduce the number of fights;
• profit increase- a delicious dish was taken with a bang;
• symbolism - the herring acted as a symbol of the proletariat, onions - the peasants, beets - the red banner, mayonnaise - the western enemies of the Soviets.

The classic recipe "Herring under a fur coat"

What is required:

• fat herring (fillet) - 300 g;
• potatoes - 300 g;
• carrot - 300 g;
• beets - 300 g;
• fresh apples - 300 g;
• fresh onions - 150 g;
• mayonnaise and salt to taste.

How to do

1. Peel boiled vegetables with peel and process on a fine grater.
2. Place each ingredient on a separate plate.
3. Chop the onion as finely as possible.
4. Cut the fish into medium-sized cubes.
5. Remove the peel from each apple and chop the fruit into cubes.
6. At the bottom of the salad bowl (you can also use a plate of large diameter), lay prepared foods in layers: potatoes, herring, onions, carrots, apples, beets. Each product is interspersed with a mayonnaise layer.
7. Patience for several hours until the salad is saturated, putting the dish in the refrigerator.

5 secrets of perfect taste

Using the described step-by-step recipe "Herring under a fur coat", consider some tricks. Five tips will help make the dish so that you lick your fingers.

1. We buy quality ingredients. Going to the store for products for a festive salad, it is important to give preference to the freshest goods and pay attention to the shelf life.
2. Cook vegetables separately from each other. Potatoes, carrots and beets need to be cooked in separate pots. Although this is not always convenient, the result is worth it.
3. We cut correctly. It is recommended to grind boiled vegetables on a grater so that the layers are better saturated and the salad is juicy. But apples need to be cut into cubes: if you use a grater, the fruits will give too much juice.
4. Pickle the onion. The sharp taste of the vegetable will soften and take on a sweet and sour color if, after cutting, soak it in a weak solution of vinegar for 15-20 minutes.
5. Add vegetable oil. If you mix herring and onion with a small amount of vegetable oil, the salad will turn out more juicy and tender.

Moving away from standards

All recipes for the preparation of "Herring under a fur coat" are based on the classic version. However, the beloved dishes rarely remain unchanged: resourceful housewives and famous chefs bring something to the owl so that the familiar dish finds a “new sound”. "Herring under a fur coat" is no exception: there are many variations of salad.

Additional layers

To make the classic "Herring under a fur coat" feel new every time, you can add additional layers. As the "bonus" components use:

• finely chopped boiled eggs;
• green pea;
• avocado processed on a grater;
• grated hard cheese;
• sauerkraut;
• fried mushrooms;
• a mixture of grated cream cheese and finely chopped egg whites;
• grated butter (for ease of processing, it is better to freeze it first);
• crab sticks.

Substitution of ingredients

To cook “Herring under a fur coat” in a new way, you can go the other way: replace the usual components with others. Here are some ideas:

• instead of boiled carrots - use carrots in Korean;
• instead of herring - make a salad with salted salmon;
• instead of apples- crumble pickled cucumbers into a salad;
• instead of mayonnaise - take sour cream or natural yogurt (dietary option);
• instead of fresh onions - use fried vegetable oil.

Creative design

According to established canons, serving herring is customary in a flat salad bowl. A classic salad dressing is forked egg yolks. However, the dish can become a gourmet appetizer, if you design it more creatively. For example, put the dish in tartlets. There are two more interesting options.

1. In the loaf. It is necessary to divide the loaf in half lengthwise. From each part cut the flesh, making indentations. In ready-made edible “salad bowls” from the loaf, put “Herring under a fur coat”.
2. In pita bread. Spread lavash on the table and put the salad on the product. Roll into a roll. Cut into slices 2-3 cm thick, and serve as rolls. Such a roll “Herring under a fur coat” is offered to visitors by some Moscow restaurants of the McDonalds chain.

In a whole new way: 2 ideas

So, you can improve “Herring under a fur coat” in different ways: changing the ingredients, adding new components or playing with a sequence of layers. Experiments are welcome! In addition, you can use the already proven original recipes: judging by the reviews, the following methods of performing snacks will appeal to all guests.

Step-by-step recipes for cake and roll from salad “Herring under a fur coat can be used when you want to effectively design a festive table. It will mainly require ingredients for the classic "Herring under a fur coat" (with a few exceptions), as well as gelatin.

Roll

What is required:

• potatoes - 150 g;
• beets - 200 g;
• herring (fillet) - 200 g;
• curd cheese - 100 g;
• mayonnaise - 150 g;
• water - 50 ml;
• gelatin - 10 g.

How to do

1. Process beets and potatoes (boiled) on a grater.
2. Pour gelatin with water and wait half an hour for the crystals to swell.
3. The pieces of herring fillet along the entire length of the longitudinal sections are divided into thin layers.
4. Place the swollen gelatin in a steam bath and heat, stirring, until the crystals dissolve. Cool the resulting mass and combine with mayonnaise.
5. Lay out a bamboo mat designed for cooking rolls on a table and cover it with foil.
6. Spread prepared layers of herring along the perimeter of the mat, and then potatoes, pre-mixed with half a mayonnaise-gelatin mixture and cheese.
7. Combine the remains of gelatin and mayonnaise sauce with beets and spread the resulting mass on potatoes.
8. Align the filling with a spatula.
9. Roll up the blank using the roll preparation technique.
10. Put the dish in the refrigerator for four to five hours.
11. Cut the roll into pieces, arrange on a flat plate, decorate with greens.

Cake

What is required:

• fat herring (fillet) - 300 g;
• potatoes - 300 g;
• carrot - 300 g;
• beets - 300 g;
• fresh onions - 150 g;
• gelatin - 20 g;
• mayonnaise - 150 g;
• and salt to taste.

How to do

1. Pour gelatin with a half glass of water, mix, leave to swell for 15-20 minutes.
2. Put the resulting mixture in a steam bath for the final dissolution of crystals, cool and mix with mayonnaise.
3. Combine beets, potatoes and carrots separately with the prepared sauce.
4. A beautiful container for baking cupcakes to cover with a film and put in the form of products in layers: beets, potatoes, herring, onions, mayonnaise-gelatin sauce, carrots, potatoes, onions, herring, sauce.
5. For four to five hours, put in the refrigerator.
6. Turn the container upside down on a shallow plate: the beetroot layer is on top. Cake salad is ready to serve.

It’s not difficult to make “Herring under a fur coat” at home, but to give the dish “pepper”, just a drop of imagination is enough. Even using the same ingredients, each housewife will prepare a salad “Herring under a fur coat” in its own way: unique and original.

Reviews and cooking experience

I prepared a roulette coat in December 2008. The taste is amazing. There is nothing complicated in cooking. Indeed, it is more convenient to roll the roll in 4 hands. And I also adapted to take the youngest child to help - so that I constantly mix the gelatin-mayonnaise mass - in order to avoid premature thickening. In no case should you mix all the ingredients immediately with mayonnaise. They quickly thicken. It is necessary to prepare each layer in turn.
The only thing I'm still not friends with is potatoes. If you rub it on a coarse grater - it is difficult to level it into a thin layer. And if you grate on small - absolutely no kind.

Axinia http://forum.say7.info/topic26049.html

I made a herring under a fur coat using gelatin. only all products separately were mixed with mayonnaise and gelatin, and quickly laid layers. did in a long mold. it’s great this way, you don’t lose on taste, but in the design a lot, firstly, the beets do not color all the products, and the salad turns bright and beautiful, each layer has its own vet, just mix the mayonnaise with the gelatin dissolved in the recipe and mix the potatoes separately mayonnaise, ju beets with mayonnaise, etc. and lay layers ... excellent table decoration, and a salad can be cut with a spatula, like a cake, beauty !!!!!!))))))))))))

A guest, https://www.gastronom.ru/recipe/13405/seledka-pod-shuboj-zhelirovannaya

Salad "Herring under a fur coat" has become my favorite salad since childhood. It is best to take herring slightly salted, as greasy as possible, but vegetables, beets, carrots, potatoes in proportions as much as anyone likes. For airiness and ease of taste of vegetables, I pierce a small hole in mayonnaise, or take a pastry syringe and draw a “net” for vegetables. Recently I started adding more eggs and apples to the salad, sometimes a little mustard for piquancy (you can dilute mustard with mayonnaise).The taste has become even more saturated, when children are not really hungry for vitamins, this salad becomes indispensable. Well, for the money it turns out very cheaply.

dillenna84, http://tutux.ru/opinion.php?id=15411

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