I think there is hardly at least one person in our country who has not tried it and does not know what kind of salad it is - “Herring under a fur coat”. I'm pretty sure this popular layered beet and herring salad is a top favorite on most New Year's Eve tables. Why New Years? Yes, because this salad was traditionally considered "winter", since it included long-term storage vegetables, which were present all year round in Soviet-era stores and in the bins of summer residents. And although in our time salads from fresh cucumbers-tomatoes in winter you will not surprise anyone, nevertheless, herring under a fur coat remains a favorite festive salad for most children and adults.

Today I want to present a classic recipe for herring under a fur coat, which, in my opinion, is the most delicious and balanced. The sequence of layers in this salad is not so important and everyone chooses it to their taste, the main thing is that the beets with mayonnaise are on the very top. I used to think that herring should be the bottommost layer, however, in this case, when putting the salad on the plate, some of the most valuable ingredient is lost, so now I prefer to put the potatoes down, which creates a stronger base for the subsequent layers.

Ideally, for herring under a fur coat, you should take a whole herring and cut it into fillets yourself, since in this case the fillet turns out to be more juicy, fatty and, accordingly, tasty. But since this is a rather laborious process, for which there is not always enough time and effort, sometimes it is quite possible to use a ready-made fillet bought in a store. When choosing a herring fillet in a store, you should give preference to the whole fillet, rather than pieces in oil, since selected herring of the best quality is usually taken for such products.

Layers of herring salad under a fur coat are usually laid out in a deep mold or in a salad bowl and served in this form on the table. But for a festive feast, you can make a more beautiful and elegant design in the form of a chic puff cake, which will become a real decoration of the upcoming celebration. Following these simple and detailed instructions, you can easily prepare the most delicious, tender and juicy Herring under a Fur Coat salad, which will awaken your appetite and amaze your guests' imagination!

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How to cook herring under a fur coat - a classic recipe for herring under a fur coat step by step with a photo, the sequence of layers in order

INGREDIENTS:

• 300 g herring fillet
• 2 medium beets (500 g)
• 3 medium potatoes (500 g)
• 2 medium carrots (400 g)
• 6 eggs
• 1/2 small onion
• 120 g mayonnaise

COOKING METHOD:

1. To prepare the salad "Herring under a fur coat" according to the classic recipe, you must first boil all the necessary vegetables. To do this, wash the potatoes, carrots and beets without peeling them thoroughly and put them in a deep saucepan. Pour cold water over vegetables, bring to a boil over medium heat and cook until tender.

Advice! It is advisable to cook beets separately from other vegetables, since their cooking time is usually longer, and in addition, they can turn vegetables red. Potatoes with carrots should be cooked for about 40 to 50 minutes after boiling the water, while beets can take from 1 to 2 hours depending on their size. The readiness of vegetables must be checked with a sharp knife - it should easily and without cracking enter the middle of the fruit.

2. Boil the eggs in boiling water for 10 minutes, then cover with cold water and leave for 10 - 15 minutes, so that it is easier to peel them.

3. Peel the potatoes and grate them on a coarse grater.

4. Peel and grate the carrots.

It is not at all necessary to wash the grater before each new ingredient, since there is nothing to worry about if one component of the salad is slightly "dirty" with the other. The main thing is to leave the beets for last, otherwise they will color both the grater and other ingredients of the salad.

5. Peel the eggs and grate them on a coarse grater.
6. Peel the beets and grate them on a coarse grater.

7. Peel the onions and chop very finely.

Advice! For salads, it is better to use red or white salad onions, which do not have a very sharp and slightly sweet taste. It is advisable to scald ordinary onions with boiling water or pickle for 10 - 15 minutes in a weak vinegar solution (2 tablespoons of any 9% vinegar per 100 ml of water).

8. Cut the herring fillet into small cubes and you can start assembling the salad.

9. Herring under a fur coat can be served in any deep salad bowl or baking dish, but today I will show you how to put this salad on a platter in the form of an appetizing layered cake. To do this, we need a round ring from a split baking dish with a diameter of 22 - 24 cm without a bottom, which must be fastened with a lock, put on a flat dish and lightly greased from the inside with vegetable oil.

10. Put grated potatoes on the bottom of this structure, tamp them slightly, salt and grease with mayonnaise.

You can not spread mayonnaise with a spoon, but simply apply it in the form of a fine mesh over the entire surface. To do this, you need to take a pastry bag with a thin nozzle or use mayonnaise in a small bag, cutting off one corner from it.

11. Put chopped herring on a layer of potatoes.

12. Distribute chopped onions evenly over the herring.

13. Next, put the grated carrots, lightly salt them and grease with mayonnaise.

14. Put grated eggs on the carrots and lightly salt.

15. With the last layer of salad, put the grated beets, lightly salt them and grease with mayonnaise.

16. Keep the herring under a fur coat in the refrigerator for at least 2 - 3 hours, so that the salad is properly soaked, after which you can unfasten and carefully remove the ring.


Before serving, the herring under a cake-like fur coat can be decorated according to your taste and imagination. I garnished it with green onions and finely grated egg white.
The festive salad “Herring under a fur coat”, familiar from childhood and loved by everyone, according to the classic recipe is ready!

Festive classic herring salad under a vegetable coat.

• 2 small herrings (or 1 large)
• 500 g potatoes
• 500 g carrots
• 500 g beets
• 100 g onions
• 4 eggs
• 250 g mayonnaise
• salt

From this list of ingredients, you get a large dish of herring under a fur coat, just for a party in the company. If you cook on weekdays, you can cut the amount of ingredients in half.
For the recipe, it is advisable to take the herring in a regular barrel (from a saline solution). If you use the finished herring fillet in oil, then, in my opinion, the taste of the finished dish is significantly deteriorated due to oil and spices.
In many regions of the post-Soviet space, a fur coat is prepared not with eggs, but with apples. I still prefer a fur coat with eggs, in my opinion, it tastes softer. If you decide to cook with apples, simply replace the layer of eggs with a layer of grated apples.

Preparation:

Boil the beets in a saucepan for 1-2 hours (depending on the variety and size of the beets). Cool down.

Boil potatoes and carrots in salted water for 30-40 minutes (the knife should easily pierce vegetables). Cool down.

Boil the eggs for 10 minutes after boiling. Cool with cold water.

We butcher the herring.
Cut off the head of the herring, cut along the belly, clean out the insides.
Rinse the herring thoroughly inside and out.
Next, make a cut on the back, cutting out the upper fin at the same time.
Next, evenly grabbing the skin from the head, gently pull and remove the skin like a glove up to the tail (as in the photo). Then in the same way from the other side.
Then cut out all the fins and tail.

Carefully view and remove any remaining rib bones (as shown), as well as any bones you can find.

Cut the herring fillet into small pieces.

Peel potatoes, grate on a medium grater.

Peel the eggs, grate on a medium grater.

Peel the carrots, grate on a medium grater.

Peel the beets, grate on a medium grater.

Peel the onion, chop finely, put in a container.
Pour boiling water over, drain the water after a couple of minutes (this is done so that the onion does not taste bitter and becomes less spicy).

Take a large flat dish (I have a dish with an inner diameter of 20 cm) or take two smaller plates, then you get two fur coats.
If you have mayonnaise in a bag, cut off a very small corner of the bag. If the mayonnaise is in a jar, then put it in a bag and cut off a small corner in the same way.
We begin to lay out the ingredients on the dish.
Put the potatoes, season with salt, pour evenly with mayonnaise (I didn't spread the mayonnaise with a spoon so as not to crush the layers, then the fur coat turns out to be more delicate and airy).

Put pieces of herring, pour over with mayonnaise.

What a New Year without champagne, tangerine, "Olivier", aspic and everyone's favorite "Herring under a fur coat." With the last item on this New Year's list, we invite you to get to know better, but first - a little history and interesting facts.

A bit of history

The main ingredient of this salad, jokingly nicknamed "Venus in Furs" by the people, is herring. Several centuries ago, before mass fishing began, this fish was the most common in the waters of the oceans.

Until about the 15th century, herring, due to its unpleasant smell and slightly bitter taste, was considered food worthy only of the poorest segments of the population or monks who accustomed their flesh to all kinds of deprivation.

The situation changed when a simple fisherman Willem Jacob Boykelsoon determined that all the unpleasant properties of this inhabitant of the deep sea are concentrated in the gills, if they are removed, then the taste of the fish changes dramatically for the better. Later, even a monument was erected to this in all respects worthy person.

In Russia, this fish is more widespread than other varieties, the market capacity is estimated at more than 500 million tons.

According to legend, it was first served in the network of canteens and taverns of the Moscow merchant Anastas Bogomilov. The main visitors to his establishments were not the most posh public - workers and peasants. And since the year was very turbulent and eventful in 1918, the main topic of the feasts was the political situation in the country.

Each of the participants in these conversations with an increased alcoholic degree was ready to defend their point of view to the last. The last arguments were often fists, dishes and completely apolitical furniture of drinking establishments. A salad symbolizing these controversies was first served on New Year's Eve 1919.

Its components: herring (the favorite food of the proletarians), carrots, onions and potatoes (personified the peasants), beets (similar in color to the Bolshevik banner), and the French Provencal sauce served as a dressing. The success of the new dish, called "SH.U.B.A" ("To Chauvinism and Decline Fight and Anathema), was simply deafening.

Due to the composition rich in vegetables, the herring salad under a fur coat enriches the body with many vitamins and amino acids, improves intestinal motility, promotes the elimination of toxins and increases the amount of hemoglobin. And the calorie content of the classic version of "Fur coat" is 193 kcal per 100 g (in many respects the calorie content of the salad depends on mayonnaise).

Classic herring salad under a fur coat - step by step photo recipe

We offer a classic step-by-step photo recipe for everyone's favorite dish herring under a fur coat.

Ingredients:

• three potato tubers;
• large carrots;
• fillet of one herring (up to 300 g);
• three eggs (hard boiled);
• two not very large beets;
• large onion head;
• thick olive (any other) mayonnaise;
• dessert spoon of sugar and the same amount of lemon juice;
• some cheese shavings for garnish.

Preparation herring under a fur coat

1. Wash all vegetables well. Boil potatoes, eggs, beets and carrots in a separate bowl. Cut the herring into small pieces or strips.

2. Cool and clean the finished products.

3. Then coarsely grate.

4. Finely chop the onion (without peel), add sugar and lemon juice to it, mix the ingredients, leave for a quarter of an hour in this state.

5. Next, you should arrange the herring salad under a fur coat in the form of a kind of cake. As the first layer, place an even layer of potatoes, then a row of pieces of herring, even higher - prepared onions, then place the carrots.

6. Complete the construction with grated beets. Distribute it throughout the culinary facility, decorate with cheese shavings, herbs.

7. Separate each vegetable layer, including the top one, with mayonnaise. Determine the amount of sauce by taste. The classic herring under a fur coat is ready!

The bright colors of the presented dish, herring under a fur coat, can perfectly highlight the overall splendor of the upcoming celebration. It is important to thoughtfully and correctly prepare a festive meal.

Roll herring under a fur coat

It would seem that it is simply impossible to combine these two such different dishes, but there is simply no limit to the flight of our imagination, originality and culinary ideas. To prepare one of the most original interpretations of the classic herring under a fur coat, you need the following ingredients:

• boiled vegetables: carrots, potatoes and beets - 1-2 pcs. (depending on the size);
• eggs - 2 pcs.;
• onions - 1 pc.;
• slightly salted herring - 1 pc .;
• mayonnaise - about 50 g;
• noria algae - 2 leaves;
• vinegar, preferably balsamic;
• hard cheese - 1 tablespoon

Cooking steps an excellent portioned snack - roll "herring under a fur coat":

1. Boil eggs and all vegetables, except onions, peel them;
2. We butcher the herring, separate the fillets, discard the entrails and bones. If you wish, you can simplify your work and buy a ready-made herring fillet. We cut it into longitudinal strips;
3. We cut the peeled onion into half rings, pour boiling water over it, then drain the water, and fill the onion with vinegar;
4. Put a sheet of noria seaweed on a bamboo mat, so that the rough side is on top;
5. On the bucket elevator, put grated beets, then carrots, grease with mayonnaise;
6. Put grated cheese and potatoes on top. We tamp it well, then grease it again with mayonnaise;
7. Squeeze the onion slightly, put it on the potatoes;
8. Put a strip of herring approximately in the middle of the layer, twist the roll with the utmost accuracy. Try to keep it tight. To do this, use cling film, and preferably a bamboo mat.
9. We put our roll in the refrigerator for about 1.5-2 hours. During this time, the bucket elevator will soften a little, but it will continue to keep its shape perfectly.
10. Cut the roll before serving. We serve cold herring rolls, we get well-deserved surprise and praise from others.

Recipe for herring under a fur coat with an apple

There are probably countless variations of the famous “Herring under a Fur Coat”. The addition of one apple will help to slightly diversify the taste of the usual herring-vegetable composition, except for it, all the ingredients remain unchanged. You will find a list of them in the first recipe of our article.

Cooking procedure herring under a fur coat with an apple:

1. We boil all the ingredients that need it (beets, potatoes, carrots and eggs). We recommend that you cook the vegetables separately, otherwise the beets will color their neighbors in the pan, which will make your entire salad purple. Let them cool completely.
2. Separate the herring from the peel and bones, as in the previous versions of the salad. Cut it into small cubes.
3. Peel the onion, cut it, sprinkle with salt and sugar, sprinkle with vinegar. We leave it for 15-20 minutes, so that it has time to marinate.
4. With the preparation finished, we proceed to collecting our fur coat. Put the grated potatoes on the bottom of the dish, grease with mayonnaise.
5. Put pieces of herring and onions on the potatoes.
6. Cover the onion with grated boiled carrot and grease it again with mayonnaise;
7. Now it's the turn of the "nail" of our recipe - a sour apple. If it is juicy enough, then you can slightly reduce the calorie content of the salad and do without smearing this layer with mayonnaise.
8. The top layer of our "Shuba" is traditional - beetroot, so it definitely needs to be greased with mayonnaise.

Before serving, give your creation a couple of hours to soak and infuse in the refrigerator.

How to make a herring under a fur coat with an egg?

Among the rather exotic options in which we are offered to diversify the usual taste of avocado, pomegranate, pineapple, replace herring with smoked chicken, and the like, the recipe with an egg looks almost innocent and modest. But, nevertheless, such a "Herring under a fur coat" will delight you with its airiness and pleasant taste.

As for the ingredients, we keep the same classic reference composition from the first recipe, supplement it with 2-3 chicken eggs.

Cooking procedure herring under a fur coat, complemented by eggs:

1. All vegetables, except for onions, wash, pour cold water and boil until tender. Since large beets can take several hours to cook, choose smaller beets;
2. After the vegetables are boiled, cooled and peeled, grate them and fold them separately;
3. We boil eggs and do with them the same way as with vegetables, that is, clean and rub on a fine grater;
4. Mill herring, remove bones, skin and entrails, cut into small cubes.
5. Now let's start assembling the salad. The layers are quite standard: herring, onion, mayonnaise, then potato and carrot layers, and again mayonnaise. We tamp the lower layers a little, after which we can spread our egg raisin. The top layer of "Shuba" is traditionally beets sprinkled with mayonnaise.

If desired, you can separate the whites with the yolks, leaving the latter to decorate the salad.

Herring under a fur coat without herring - the impossible is possible!

If you do not belong to the large group of herring lovers for moral, taste or ethical reasons, this is not a reason to refuse a tasty and nutritious salad.

Vegetable set of vegetarian "Fur coat" remains the same, but approximately doubled in volume - potatoes (4 pcs.), Carrots (2 pcs.) And beets (2 pcs.), But the rest of the ingredients may surprise even such an experienced cook:

• seaweed - 100 g;
• cheese "Health" or similar - 150 g;
• mayonnaise - about 100 g (mayonnaise can be replaced with high-quality sour cream, preferably homemade).

Cooking steps"Vegetarian fur coat":

1. Boil potatoes, beets and carrots separately. Better to start with beets, since the cooking time can be up to several hours;
2. Peel the cooled vegetables and grate them in separate containers.
3. Let's start assembling the salad. Put half the potatoes in the bottom layer, and on it washed and chopped seaweed, after which half of the grated cheese and carrots.
4. Not regretting, we spread the carrots with mayonnaise or sour cream;
5. Now lay out the remaining potatoes, cheese and carrots in layers, which we grease again.
6. We cover our vegetarian "Fur coat" with a thick layer of grated boiled beets, greased with sour cream.

Cooking traditional herring under a fur coat takes a lot of time, which is why we suggest you try a simpler, faster, but still delicious version of everyone's favorite salad.

• eggs - 8 pcs.;
• beets - 1 pc.;
• carrots - 1 pc.;
• mayonnaise;
• bulb;
• herring fillet - 300-400 g.

Cooking steps lazy version of herring under a fur coat:

1. Boil beets and carrots.
2. We mill the herring, freeing it from bones, skin and entrails. Cut the fillet into transverse pieces approximately 2 cm wide.
3. Clean the hard-boiled eggs, cut in half, extract the yolk from them and fold it separately.
4. After waiting for the boiled vegetables to cool completely, peel them and grate them.
5. Chop the onion as small as possible.
6. Mix yolks with prepared vegetables in a separate container, season with mayonnaise to taste.
7. Put the mixture prepared in the last paragraph into the egg whites, put 1 piece of herring on top.
8. We decorate our appetizer lazy herring under a fur coat of greens at our discretion.

Original herring under a fur coat - an unusual recipe

We are all accustomed to seeing a red beet coat on the herring, which, as it turned out, according to the creators' idea, was supposed to symbolize the Bolshevik banner and their struggle. We suggest you dress up your favorite fish in white fur. It will turn out not only original, but also very tasty.

• fillet of one herring;
• sour apple (preferably "Semerenko") - 1 pc .;
• eggs - 2 pcs.;
• 1 onion;
• bread - 2 slices;
• walnut kernels - 1 glass;
• mayonnaise;
• salt, pepper to taste and as desired.

Cooking procedure herring in a white "fur coat":

1. We mill the herring, rid it of bones, entrails and skins. Cut into small cubes.
2. Peel and chop the onion.
3. Cut the slices of bread into squares.
4. Peel the apple and grate it or cut it as small as possible.
5. Peel the boiled eggs, grate them;
6. Let's start assembling the salad. Put herring, onion, bread in layers on a dish. Lightly tamp and grease the bread with mayonnaise. Put apple slices and eggs on top of it, grease again with mayonnaise.
7. Sprinkle the top layer of the salad with ground walnuts, garnish with herbs as desired.

Another very original recipe for herring under a fur coat in the next video.

Herring under a fur coat - layers. The correct order, the sequence of the formation of the salad

Traditionally, each of the ingredients of the "Herring under a fur coat" salad is laid out in layers, their order is not strictly regulated. Each of the housewives puts the ingredients in a convenient order for her. Below is the classic bottom-up order of layers used in food service establishments and restaurants:

1. The lowest layer is traditionally herring. In some versions of salads, it is placed on a potato base, but, according to experts, in this variation, the taste of fish can be lost in vegetables. Fillet of practically beloved fish is cut into small cubes with sides of 5 * 5 mm.
2. Onion, finely chopped or cut into thin half rings, is placed on the herring. If desired, it can be slightly marinated by pouring boiling water over it and soaking in vinegar for 15-20 minutes.
3. Boiled potatoes, grated. Traditionally, it is boiled, but if you decide to bake potatoes, there will be much more trace elements useful for the human body in it. From the boiled and cooled root crop, its uniform peel is removed, then it is rubbed on a coarse grater.
4. Boiled chicken or quail eggs, after cooling, are peeled from the shell and grated.
5. Carrot. The potato-carrot tandem will soften the salinity of the beets. It is also boiled or baked, peeled and grated.
6. The final layer of the classic "Fur coat" is boiled or baked beets, grated.

Mayonnaise is used to add juiciness to the salad, it is smeared with each of the layers. If you want to reduce the number of calories in your favorite salad, the number of oiled layers can be reduced. It is also allowed to replace mayonnaise with soft cream cheese (such as Philadelphia), which will reduce the calorie content of your favorite snack and increase its usefulness.

How to decorate a herring under a fur coat?

You can surprise guests not only with unusual ingredients that change and complement the classic taste, but also with the original decoration of the dish, as well as the way of serving.

Submission methods herring under a fur coat when cooking at home:

1. It is laid out on a round or oval dish, and a kind of dome is erected from the layers.
2. In a transparent deep salad bowl, through the walls of which you can see layers of snacks;
3. Serve in portions in small bowls or wide glasses.

For salad dressing herring under a fur coat, the simplest and most affordable ingredients are used:

1. 1. Beetroot slices.
   2. Carrot bars.
   3. Lemon zest and wedges.
   4. Olives.
   5. Greens.
   6. Egg yolk.
   7. Pomegranate seeds.
   8. Walnuts.
   9. Fresh cucumber peel.
   10. Egg white or yolk;
   11. Green peas or corn.

Craftsmen decorate "Fur coat" with carrot clocks, beetroot and cucumber roses, lemon swans, egg flowers and birch trees. Decorating a traditional salad with red fish and caviar looks expensive, appetizing and very beautiful. Housewives, combining these products with herbs, decorate real masterpieces, as well as whole aquariums.

Methods for a beautiful presentation of "Fur coat"

Culinary rings fashionable now allow you to form original portioned turrets from your favorite snack. If such an accessory has not yet appeared in your kitchen, you can give the herring a similar shape under a fur coat using the cut-off middle of a plastic bottle.

So that your tower does not turn out to be leaning, does not crumble and tilt to one side, all the ingredients in the form are well tamped with your hands or a crush for mashed potatoes.

The bottom layer with this method of serving is better to make potatoes. You can decorate your "turret" with shrimps, caviar, roses from fresh cucumbers or caviar, egg slices.

An original, but rather troublesome way of serving herring under a fur coat is to make a roll from its layers. Put the layers of lettuce on the cling film in the reverse order, that is, starting with the beets. We do not stretch the herring layer over the entire surface of the salad layer, but put it only in the center along the entire length. Then, with the utmost care, we roll up the roll or simply connect the edges of the beetroot layer.

If you add a little gelatin to mayonnaise, then you can prepare a salad in a beautiful silicone form. If there is a beautiful drawing on its bottom, it prints on the top of our "Fur coat".

The appetizer itself looks like a beautiful and very appetizing cake. For such a method of filing, it is not necessary to take just a silicone mold, it can also be an ordinary round detachable one. Just don't forget to decorate the top of your masterpiece beautifully.

An interesting way to serve herring in portions under a fur coat is in clear glass glasses. Their size can be almost any, from cognac glasses to ordinary glasses.

Since the main ingredient in our salad is herring fish, it is often served to the table, figuratively laid out in the shape of a fish. Its fins and scales are decorated with onion rings, beets, carrots, black olives, and red caviar.

1. For a richer taste of your favorite salad, you need to give it a few hours to soak, ideally about 6 hours. Therefore, make sure that the "Fur coat" is not prepared just before the guests arrive.
2. When there is a shortage with free time, each of the layers can be mixed separately in a bowl with mayonnaise. So the impregnation process will go much faster.
3. It is not possible to find out the taste of the purchased herring in advance, if you come across an overly salty sample, we advise you to soak it in milk. And if, on the contrary, it is too lightly salted, after cutting and cutting the fish into pieces, add salt and mix it.
4. Usually, recipes contain a fairly small amount of ingredients, but if you expect a lot of guests to come, feel free to increase them two to three times. This will allow you to cook "Shuba" on several dishes.
5. You can reduce the fat content and, accordingly, the calorie content of the salad by smearing not all layers with mayonnaise, or using its minimum amount.
6. Finely chopped pickled cucumbers will help to add some piquancy to the herring under a fur coat. Place them between a layer of carrots and eggs.
7. The taste of a fur coat is significantly improved if you marinate not only finely chopped onions, but also grated beets.
8. Finely chopped boiled meat, placed on the onion layer, will help add satiety to the herring salad under a fur coat.
9. It is better to use our tips for decorating herring under a fur coat just before serving, otherwise the beets will color all other foods and edible decorative elements in a bright purple color.
10. By exchanging the herring for lightly salted salmon, you will get a premium version of your favorite salad called "Tsarskaya Shuba".

New Year's holidays are ahead, you can experiment. We hope that you will enjoy the delicious and original recipes of this salad that we have collected.

When preparing dishes, I want them not only to be tasty, but also to please the eye with their beauty. The most common salad on the festive table is herring under a fur coat. When composing a menu, this dish comes first on the list.

Every housewife, at least once in her life, faced the question of how and in what order to lay out the layers in this traditional dish. Over the years, many changes have been made to this recipe, new ingredients have been added. But the very first, classic recipe for cooking herring under a fur coat is still the most delicious and desirable on the table.

• Herring fillet - 900 gr.;
• Egg - 6 pcs.;
• Potatoes - 3 pcs.;
• Burak - 6 pcs.;
• Carrots - 3 pcs.;
• Mayonnaise - 200 ml.

Cooking method:

1. If you have a herring carcass. Then cut off the head. Remove the insides. Rinse with cold water. Cut lengthwise. Remove the backbone and all bones. If it's a ready-made fillet, then immediately start cooking;
2. Cut the fish into small cubes. This will be the first layer;
3. For the second layer. Cook the potatoes in their uniforms. Refrigerate. The peel is easier to remove from the cold. Take a grater, be sure to large and grate;
4. Put the eggs in a saucepan with hot water, cook for ten minutes over low heat. If you turn on the fire at full power, then the water will boil, the eggs will bump against each other and crack;
5. After the specified time, drain the water. Pour cold. Cool completely. Eggs are poured with cold water so that they are easily peeled from the shell;
6. After cooling completely. Peel. Grate. This is the third layer;
7. Carrots can be cooked together with potatoes, just take into account that the cooking time for carrots is fifteen minutes longer. Therefore, you need to get the potatoes earlier. Boil carrots in the skin. After cooking, cool, clean. Grate with a coarse grater. In a salad, this vegetable comes in the fourth layer;
8. Burak is cooked in a skin. Its cooking time is twice as long as that of other vegetables. Check readiness with a knife. If it enters the pulp easily and gently, then it is completely ready. Cool, remove the skin, grate. The filling for the fifth layer is ready;
9. When shaping the salad, lay out the layers strictly in order, smearing with mayonnaise. Decorate the top layer with mayonnaise by drawing a mesh.

Herring salad under a fur coat appeared on New Year's Eve and quickly gained popularity among the people. Despite its rich history, it still remains the most desired delicacy not only on the New Year's table, but also at all family holidays. During the preparation of this dish, a festive mood is created. Each housewife has her own secret for preparing this salad. Cooked with carrots and apples. Reorder layers. But the most favorite among the majority of the population is the classic recipe for herring under a fur coat, collected in layers.

Ingredients:

• Onions - 3 pcs.;
• Potatoes - 6 pcs.;
• Egg - 6 pcs.;
• Herring fillet - 600 gr.;
• Burak - 6 pcs.;
• Mayonnaise - 100 gr.

Preparation:

The main thing is to arrange the layers correctly. The taste and appearance of the dish depends on it.

1. The first layer is always fish, which is cut into small pieces. Spread on a large dish in a thin layer;
2. The second layer is onions. Add to the salad, pre-cut and soaked in hot water onions for ten minutes;
3. The potatoes are placed in the third layer. First, the potatoes are boiled in their uniforms. Cool, peel off. Rub on a coarse grater;
4. Sprinkle the potatoes on top with the oil that remains in the fillet packaging. And smeared with mayonnaise;
5. The fourth layer is a carrot, boiled in a skin, cooled, peeled and grated on a coarse grater;
6. The next fifth layer is the egg. Hard boil. Cool in cold water, peel and pass through an egg cutter;
7. Top with mayonnaise;
8. The sixth layer is the main ingredient of this dish, beetroot. It is he who gives the dish an unforgettable taste and appearance. Boil unpeeled. After cooling, clean and grate;
9. At the end, gently grind the mayonnaise with a spoon, forming beautiful rounded sides.

Serve the dish beautifully in a transparent salad bowl. In this version of the herring design, all the layers in order are visible under the fur coat.

You can serve this delicacy in portions to each in a separate plate. To do this, use a special round ring, which can be bought in stores without any problems. If there is no time to look for a special device, take a bottle of mineral water, cut out a ring. Any tin can and even a mug will work as well.

While cooking, press down firmly on all food to make it easier to remove from the serving ring.

To create a beautiful-looking salad, resourceful housewives use a split cake pan. Transfer to a plate that is larger than the shape. The location of all layers is clearly visible. On the festive table, it takes the form of a cake and decorates the table. The salad looks original, laid out on a dish in the form of a rectangle or square.

Guests will certainly admire the herring under a fur coat, cooked according to a classic recipe with an egg and rolled into a roll. For this design option, all products are collected on cling film and arranged in reverse order. This means that the first layer will be beetroot. Herring, unlike the classic version, does not need to be distributed over the entire surface, but it is necessary to put the entire portion only in the center. Then, gently pressing with your hands, roll it into a roll shape. Without removing the film, let it brew for a couple of hours in the refrigerator. Then they remove the film and decorate the festive table with a beautiful dish.

A less common option is to serve in large red wine glasses. This portioned version looks amazing. All layers are clearly visible, causing appetite, and the desire is more likely to enjoy a colorful dish.

How to decorate a herring under a fur coat

The classic option for decorating a dish is mayonnaise applied with a mesh over a layer of beetroot. Sometimes garnished with grated egg or chopped herbs. Use tomatoes, cucumbers, onion rings or olives. But there are many methods to give a beautiful, unique look to the dish we are used to. Of course, you will have to spend more time and effort, but the result is worth it.

You can use regular cookie cutters for decoration. Cut animals out of any food, thereby making children happy.

With the help of mayonnaise, a trunk is drawn, slices of olives add the image of a birch, and parsley serves as leaves. Using caviar and mayonnaise, you get very beautiful fish. You can simulate a real aquarium by adding dill algae.

If you have a silicone cake mold with a beautiful pattern, such as a rose or a bear, use it and you won't regret it. When you flip the salad onto a platter, it will take on a shape and look like a cake.

It is very easy to shape the fish. Make the scales from beetroot, onions, carrots cut into rings.

Flowers are made from boiled beetroot and carrots, laid out on a mesh painted with mayonnaise. Parsley leaves are ideal for flower foliage. For the new year, it is beautiful to decorate with a clock, on which the hands point to twelve o'clock. To do this, spread the mayonnaise evenly over the beetroot layer. Cut out Roman numerals and arrows from boiled carrots. Arrange in the desired order. This dish should be placed in the center of the festive table. You should not draw numbers and arrows with mayonnaise, because they will definitely turn red from beetroot.

In order for a herring under a fur coat, cooked according to the classic recipe in layers, to be tasty, you need to know some points:

1. Choose strong potatoes that do not become watery during cooking. Incorrectly selected potatoes will turn into mashed potatoes and spoil the taste of the dish. Many boil peeled potatoes - this is wrong, it is worth cooking only in uniforms;
2. Burak, which has white veins in the section, is not suitable for salad. Also, do not use forage varieties. Ideal is red beetroot, which has a sweet taste. It is worth stopping your choice on medium-sized fruits;
3. Carrots should be sweet, without bitterness. Medium in size, crisp and firm;
4. If possible, purchase eggs from farmers. They differ in appearance from store-bought eggs of a rich color with yolk, which will decorate the salad with their appearance;
5. Choose fat herring. Necessarily lightly salted. Salted fish will overload the whole salad;
6. Only fatty mayonnaise is used. With a low percentage of fat, the mayonnaise is too liquid, it will not be able to saturate the layers well;
7. Onions are always soaked in water or pickled. This softens the harsh onion flavor. They are always placed over the herring;
8. Cutting the ingredients into cubes is not worth it, grated ones give a mild taste to the salad and are well soaked;
9. If you use a ready-made slightly salted herring fillet, then do not throw away the oil, pour on top of the potatoes and get a rich and delicate salad taste;
10. An apple is added to add a spicy taste with a slight sourness. Rub on a coarse grater. Do not rub on a fine grater, the apple will give a lot of juice and ruin the dish;
11. Before starting the formation of the salad, brush the plate with sunflower oil;
12. Coat the layers well with mayonnaise, otherwise the salad will be dry;
13. Do not use herring if it has a yellowish tinge or foreign odors, which means that the fish was stored improperly and possibly spoiled.