Simple salads have always ruled the world. Even at its first appearance, this dish was not characterized by complexity and originality. Roman and Greek salads consisted only of greens and onions. Later, olives were added to salads. But, further than this innovation, the peoples did not advance until the Middle Ages. The
flowering of culinary craft, and salads, including salads, began only in the XVIII century. Then cooks began to add new products to salads, which became the first step to long and interesting experiments.
Let’s prepare a simple appetizer salad “Prostushka” from a minimum of products
.
Ingredients for salad “Prostushka”:
- herring – pcs.;
- carrots – pcs.;
- eggs – 5 pcs;
- potatoes – 3 pcs;
- processed cheese – pcs.;
- salt – ½ tsp;
- mayonnaise.
Preparation of salad “Prostushka”:
Boil until cooked carrots and potatoes, boil hard-boiled eggs. Clean herring from the insides, scales, ready, fins and tail. Remove bones and backbone, as well as black film from the fillet
. Cut herring into small cubes. Clean the eggs, divide into yolks and whites. Grate the whites on a fine grater into a bowl to the herring.
Shred carrots to the herring together with cold melted cheese. Fill the mixture with mayonnaise and mix thoroughly.
In a mold with a special ring rub ½ of the peeled boiled potatoes, salt. Smear the potato layer with mayonnaise, lay out the mass of herring and vegetables.
Cover the fish layer with the second part of shredded potatoes, smear with mayonnaise
.
Grate yolks on a fine grater, spread evenly on the surface.
It is recommended to give the salad time to insist. This is how you get a new unusual salad with herring from simple products.
