Pita with herring: simple snacks for the New Year's table

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

The New Year is already very close, and every housewife knows what she will put on the festive table. These are traditional Olivier, crab, herring under a fur coat, sandwiches with caviar and other trivialities. But sometimes you want to add variety to this standard list. It turns out that this can be easily implemented with the most ordinary products. In this case, for example, pita bread with herring will help. And how - now we'll figure it out.

Pita rolls with herring

You will be surprised, but this simple combination is perfect for any festive table as an independent dish or snack, which perfectly complements the feast with strong Russian drinks. After all, it is very convenient - drank, ate. Or just grabbed a piece of pita bread with herring to kill the worm.

Domestic housewives came up with this simple but interesting dish, having seen enough of their Western "colleagues". They actively use salmon or trout for these purposes. But due to the fact that in our country this is a rather expensive pleasure, and we are still raised on herring and it is more familiar to us, local culinary specialists fussed, changed the recipe, and now they sculpt rolls and so on only with her.

Now we offer you the most interesting and common recipes for pita bread with herring in the form of rolls.

Herring under a fur coat in lavash

Yes, you heard right. The traditional New Year's salad herring under a fur coat can be served on the table in a completely unusual form, and it is prepared a little easier than the original dish. Basically, just add one more ingredient and the way of serving becomes non-trivial.

To cook herring under a fur coat in pita bread you need:

• Slightly s alted Atlantic herring - one carcass;
• two Armenian lavash;
• two medium-sized beets;
• small carrot;
• two chicken eggs;
• two medium potatoes
• mayonnaise - to taste.

Let's start cooking

First, you need to clean the fish properly, remove the spine and bones from the carcass and cut it into strips about a centimeter wide. While we are engaged in herring, boil eggs and vegetables. When they are ready, clean them and grate them on a fine grater without mixing, as everything will be formed in layers like in the legendary salad.

We take two pita breads and cut each one into two parts. We put the first sheet of pita bread, coat it with mayonnaise and spread the beets. Next comes the second piece of pita bread, which, after smearingmayonnaise, cover the entire surface with carrots. The third layer is egg, and the fourth is potato. But the latter needs to be slightly smeared with mayonnaise on top so that the roll grabs better. When the base is ready, it's the turn for the fish. We lay out the pieces of herring on the sides in such an amount that seems optimal to you, after which we turn the pita bread from the edges to the center and separate it from each other with a knife.

The resulting sausages are tightly wrapped in cling film and sent to the refrigerator for several hours so that the roll not only acquires the desired shape, but also soaks. When this happens, it will turn pink-purple and dense. Then the roll can be cut into individual pieces with a thickness of at least two centimeters. It is important to use a very sharp knife, otherwise all efforts will go down the drain. Here is such an unusual presentation of the traditional element of the New Year's table that will definitely surprise your relatives and guests.

Delicate roll with herring

This recipe for pita bread with herring is not just called a tender roll. It is this property that curd cheese gives it, but first things first.

To prepare this appetizer you will need:

• herring fillet;
• Armenian lavash;
• curd cheese;
• pickled cucumbers;
• fresh dill;
• a bunch of green onions;
• and some mayonnaise.

Lavash is smeared with curd cheese. After the pita bread is smeared, sprinkle it with dill and spread the pieces of herring halfway along the pita bread. Then sprinkle everything with chopped onion, domayonnaise net and finish with pickled cucumbers grated on a coarse grater. The fish should be placed only on 1/2 of the surface, so that later it would be more convenient to wrap all this beauty, while the rest of the ingredients should cover the entire work surface.

When everything is packed, tightly roll the pita bread with herring into a roll and put it in the refrigerator for a couple of hours. To keep the appetizer from losing its shape, you can tighten it with cling film, but this can cause the Armenian bread to become too wet, so proceed at your discretion. After the roll grabs, you can cut it into pieces, sprinkled with fresh herbs or sesame seeds on top.

Variations

Since roll recipes appeared among the people as folklore, you can safely replace some ingredients with others at your discretion. It all depends on how your home is used to eating herring. Someone likes the combination of fish with cucumbers, both fresh and pickled. Others cannot imagine fish without onions poached in vinegar. Still others prefer to add mushrooms. Fantasize, experiment, and everything will work out.

Housewives Tips

We recommend using Almette cheese with cucumbers from the Hochland company for a tender roll, since its texture and taste are the best suited for such an appetizer.

Experienced housewives recommend using ready-made fish fillets, since fish filleting is a rather laborious process. Moreover, not every representativethe fair sex knows how to cut a boneless herring into fillets. If you do not know, but really want to know, then the video instruction below will tell you in detail about the process and allow you to master the extraordinary "art".

We wish you excellent cooking and bon appetit!