Salad "herring under a fur coat", or how to clean a herring

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

Every time I decide to cook my favorite “herring under a fur coat”, I am faced with a dilemma: buy a whole carcass of fish or ready-made fillet pieces. It seems that I know how to clean a herring, and I know how to do it, but I want to save my own time and not bother with choosing the seeds. On the other hand, stores sell herring fillets in vegetable oil or with the addition of various seasonings, which cannot but affect the taste of the salad. So (most of the time) common sense prevails over laziness and I buy a whole s alted herring.

What else, besides fish, do you need for a salad? The ingredients are as follows:

- two medium beets;

- two large carrots;

- five potatoes;

- four chicken eggs;

- mayonnaise.

Vegetables and eggs must be washed, boiled until tender, cooled, peeled and grated on a fine grater into separate plates.

Time to fish. How to clean a herring? Take a cutting board, cover it with cling film or a plastic bag, then with a paper towel. So we will save ourselves the trouble of washing the board from fish residues.

We take a herring, open her belly - from the headto the tail - with a sharp knife, take out the insides. Caviar or milk can be left if your family eats them, or you can throw it away. We remove the intestines and a thin black film that covers the herring from the inside. Cut off the head of the fish. Now you need to make a deep incision along the ridge, cutting out the dorsal fin. We also remove the fins on the abdomen and near the tail. From the side of the head, pry off the skin with a knife and gently pull it towards the tail. If you do not make sharp jerks, the skin is easily separated. The fish is cleaned, but the cutting of the herring is not finished. It remains for us to separate the fillets, which we do: first on one side, then on the other. The bulk of the bones will remain on the spine, but some of the costal bones will have to be selected manually. Do it carefully: no one needs a bone in the throat. How did you not like to clean the herring? Try to involve your other half in this process, because it has long been known that joint cooking brings together.

Cut the fillet into small pieces, start collecting the salad. We take a flat and, preferably, an oblong salad bowl, where we lay out all the ingredients in the following order: beets, herring fillets, potatoes, eggs, carrots, beets. We coat each layer, except the lowest one, with mayonnaise. When preparing a salad, I do not use s alt, the one found in fish and mayonnaise is enough.

Do you know that there is a legend about the creation of salad "herring under a fur coat", according to which "SHUB" is an abbreviation? It stands for "chauvinism and decline - boycott and anathema." The salad was invented in 1918 in a Moscow tavern.merchant Anastas Bogomilov in order to reconcile representatives of various social strata. The fish symbolized the proletariat, whose favorite food was dishes with herring, the beets - the Red Army revolutionaries, and the vegetables - the peasants. The chef, who knew well how to peel herring and how to cook vegetables, decided to combine all the ingredients and flavor them with French mayonnaise. The visitors of the tavern really liked the new dish, which, moreover, was an excellent snack for drinking. They ate more, got less drunk, and the number of fights and quarrels decreased accordingly. And they presented the salad just on the eve of the New Year, and since then they have begun to associate the “herring under a fur coat” with this holiday.