Salads with herring and potatoes: recipes for all occasions

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Herring and potatoes are the perfect combination for a delicious and hearty snack meal. And really, what could be better than an appetizing fatty s alted herring with boiled potatoes? We invite you to change the traditions and make a salad from these products.

The article will present several ideas for salad with herring and potatoes:

1. Potato salad with s alted herring "Traditional".
2. German herring salad with potatoes and pickled cucumber.
3. Herring salad with potatoes and egg.

The preparation time for all dishes is about 30 minutes, the amount of products is designed for 4-6 servings.

Preparing the main ingredients

The main ingredients for all salads will be:

250-300g herring fillet;

• 500 g boiled potatoes;
• onions and herbs to taste.

Prepare them like this:

1. Boil the potatoes in their uniforms, so it will fall apart less when cut. Let's clear frompeel.
2. If the herring is too s alty, soak it in cold water for half an hour. Excess s alt will go away, but all the beneficial properties of this wonderful fish will remain.
3. Cut the onion into half rings and pour boiling water for 15 minutes so that it releases its bitterness and becomes more tender and spicy, sprinkle a little with table vinegar and add a tablespoon of vegetable oil. Mix and leave for 10 minutes.

Now let's move on to the recipes.

Traditional Potato Salad

For a salad of potatoes and herring with onions according to this recipe, you will need to add to the main ingredients:

• 100 ml mayonnaise;
• dill;
• 100 ml sour cream;
• ground black pepper.

Mix sour cream with mayonnaise and finely chopped dill - salad dressing is ready. If you use only mayonnaise, the salad will turn out to be too greasy and heavy for digestion.

Cut boiled potatoes into small slices, herring fillet into pieces of the same size.

In a deep large salad bowl put everything in the following sequence: onions, potatoes, herring.

Pour each layer with sour cream and mayonnaise filling, and sprinkle potatoes with black pepper. Garnish with dill sprigs.

German Pickled Cucumber Salad

Refill will be like this:

• one glass of fragrant sunflower oil;
• table or wine vinegar - about 2-3 tablespoons;
• spoon of spicy mustard;
• pepper-polka dots.

Add 3-4 pickled cucumbers to the main ingredients. Instead of white onions, it is better to use red sweet onions.

Cut cucumbers, potatoes and herring into cubes of the same size, medium size. Cut the onion into small strips.

All ingredients should be put in a deep bowl, peppercorns should be passed into a bowl through a large grinder, pour dressing, mix carefully so that the cuts of all products retain their shape.

German-style salad with herring, potatoes and cucumber can be served in portioned salad bowls.

garnish with thin strips of pickled cucumbers or small gherkins.

Herring salad with potatoes and egg

For this salad, add 3 hard-boiled eggs and a can of canned green peas to the main ingredients.

To dress this salad, use 200 ml of low-fat sour cream or yogurt with s alt and pepper to taste.

Remove the yolks from boiled eggs and cut them into slices - they will serve as a decoration for the salad. Adding yolks to a salad with herring and potatoes is undesirable - when combined with the filling, they will turn the salad into gruel.

Cooking:

• drain the peas well so as not to make the salad watery;
• boiled chicken proteins, herring, potatoes and onions cut into medium-sized cubes;
• Lay all the ingredients in layers in a deep salad bowl, pouring dressing over each layer.

Sprinkle the top layerfinely chopped dill and arrange in a circle "boats" of boiled yolks. In the middle of the "boats" you can spread the peas, or decorate them with mayonnaise.

These salads will decorate the festive table and will not leave your guests indifferent, bon appetit!