Herring under a fur coat with an egg. Classic recipe. Cooking features

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

Perhaps, not a single family gatherings, holidays and meetings with friends in a quiet homely atmosphere can do without the beloved salad “herring under a fur coat with an egg”. The classic appetizer recipe is quite simple to prepare, so even a novice cook will cope with the task. Experienced hostesses probably already know all the secrets of cooking, but for those who are just starting their culinary journey, for those who are trying to master the classics of Russian cuisine, our advice will be very, very useful.

Today we will look at the two most popular options:

• herring under a fur coat (classic recipe) without eggs;
• a dish containing chicken eggs.

Both recipes have a place to be. It is impossible to say for sure which cooking option is considered a real classic of the genre. Someone likes to add boiled chicken or quail eggs to this salad, as they give the salad a special taste and delicate texture. Others do not add them to this snack, believing that they are completelynot felt, lost against the background of the taste of s alted herring or onions.

Option 1

The classic recipe for "herring under a fur coat" with an egg is the most popular salad option. The taste of the appetizer is very juicy, tender and airy. The “fur coat” of this salad, thanks to the use of boiled eggs, turns out to be simply luxurious.

Salad ingredients

Required ingredients:

• 4 large potatoes;
• 3 medium beets;
• one large herring;
• 3 carrots;
• 4 chicken eggs;
• 9% vinegar - three tables. spoons;
• mayonnaise - to taste.

Cooking. “Herring under a fur coat” (classic recipe) step by step

Recall that a salad is a multi-layered appetizer. Experienced chefs say that it is the correct arrangement of layers in this dish that is the key to culinary success. Therefore, such a salad will not be ashamed to offer guests.

First of all, prepare the vegetables. Carrots, potatoes and beets must be cooked until tender. It is necessary to stop cooking vegetables at the moment when the skin of the potatoes has not yet cracked, and the carrots have not had time to digest. Otherwise, the potatoes will be too soft to grate, and the carrots or beets will “leave water” and the salad will be hopelessly spoiled.

While the vegetables are cooking, put a bowl of eggs on the fire and boil them for 5-7 minutes. Onions are cut into small cubes, placed in a deep container and poured over three tablespoonsspoons of vinegar. Leave for ten minutes for the bitterness to go away. Eggs after cooking, as usual, are poured over with cold water and left to cool completely. They do the same with boiled potatoes, beets and carrots.

It remains to deal with the herring. Experienced housewives discover a secret: a herring under a fur coat with an egg (a classic recipe) does not tolerate vegetable oil. Hence the conclusion: purchased preserves with ready-made pieces of herring in vegetable oil are not worth buying! It is better to take a whole carcass of herring for the recipe.

Cutting up fish is not false. To begin with, they get rid of the fish head, rip open the abdomen and remove the insides. After that, the fish is washed well. Carefully remove the bones and remove the skin. Now it remains only to cut the fish fillet into pieces of the desired size.

Boiled vegetables and an egg are grated into separate containers. Onions are prepared in advance. By the time the salad is ready, it should be chopped and pickled. As for mayonnaise, the ideal option is home cooking. If there is no time or desire to “mess around” with cooking homemade mayonnaise, then they take any purchased one.

It remains to correctly fold the salad "puzzle". The first bottom layer is pickled onions. A thick layer of fish fillet is laid on top of it. In some recipes, it is found that the first layer is herring. But while eating salad, there is often a moment that the herring remains at the bottom, and the “fur coat” is picked up by a fork. Therefore, at least one layer of vegetables should go ahead of the fish.

Add a little mayonnaise on top of the herring and spread the boiled potatoes. Next comes carrots, then eggs and mayonnaise. It remains only to put the last layer of beets and smear it on top with mayonnaise. You can decorate the salad with half an egg or a sprig of greens.

Option 2

Now let's cook "herring under a fur coat" without eggs. The step-by-step salad recipe looks almost identical to the previous one. Vegetables are boiled, onions are marinated, herring is cut into fillets.

Salad assembly:

• boiled potatoes;
• herring;
• onion;
• carrot;
• beets.

Mayonnaise is applied between the layers. If a herring under a fur coat with an egg (a classic recipe) is prepared exclusively in layers, then the second version of the salad can be, as the housewives say, with a “shaggy” or “tousled” fur coat. Do not be afraid to mix all the salad ingredients. It won't make it any less delicious.