Cooking a modern mimosa salad

It would seem that the new can be said about the salad "Mimosa"? He is known to everyone for a long time, because the dish was invented long ago and was very popular in the Soviet times, when the housewives wanted to surprise the guests using the minimum of products.

The classic recipe with canned fish has been modified over time into a variety of options, some of which we will present today.

Let's start with the classic recipe

What ingredients are needed and how to cook properly?

• boiled eggs
• butter
• fish preserves
• bow
• mayonnaise

The number of ingredients should be taken approximately proportional, so that the layers are the same.

1. Eggs boil, cheese and butter rub on a small grater. Yolk and protein rub separately. Chop the onions into cubes.
2. The salad is laid out in such layers:

   1st: proteins

   2nd: grated cheese

   3-rd: fish, crushed beforehand with a fork in a plate. Lubricated with mayonnaise.

   4th: onions

   5-th: butter, watered with mayonnaise

   6-y: yolks, evenly distributed throughout the surface of the salad. You can decorate with a few twigs of parsley.

Several original recipes

Without oil

• canned fish (saury) - 1 pot
• potatoes, carrots and onions - 2 pcs. each.
• eggs - 4 pcs.
• salt and pepper
• mayonnaise

Cooking procedure

1. Carrots and potatoes are dropped into salted water and boiled. We do the same with eggs.
2. Bow finely chopped and pour boiling water or vinegar, so that extra bitterness will leave it.
3. When vegetables are cooked, cool them and grate them on a fine grater. The eggs should be separated from the yolks of proteins and also rub them into separate vessels.
4. We open the can, drain the oil and chop the fish into a fork.
5. Now let's start the salad dressing. It is better to use a deep transparent dish so that guests can freely view all layers of the salad. Each layer is lubricated with mayonnaise.
6. First lay out the fish, then crushed squirrels, carrots, potatoes. We cover it with onions and again with a layer of potatoes.
7. Since the last layer is also lubricated with mayonnaise, it is necessary to slightly add it and sprinkle with grated yolk. He creates the basic yellow decoration of the salad, because of which the dish and got such a name.
8. To additionally decorate the salad, place on it boiled vegetables in the form of flowers and leaves.

With an apple

You will need such products

• chicken eggs - 3 pcs.
• potatoes - 3 pcs.
• salt - 1 tsp.
• pink salmon (preserved) - 200 g
• mayonnaise
• hard cheese - 50 g
• onion - 100 g
• apple - 1 pc.
• parsley for decoration

How to cook

1. Potatoes and eggs cook
2. From the fish merge the juice and knead it with a fork
3. We make small forms from foil. To do this, cut the foil stripes about two centimeters wide and twist them.
4. We proceed to fill the molds in small layers, each smearing with mayonnaise.
5. First fish, then potatoes and onions, then protein and apple. The last layer is laid yolk, grinded on a grater.
6. We remove the forms in the refrigerator for two hours, so that the salad soaked and got a shape. Then you can remove the foil, decorate the salad with parsley and serve it to the table.

Although not too many ingredients combine with canned fish, after only a few experiments, you can make this all-known salad interesting and unusual. For example, you can use pickled mushrooms or cucumbers to add extra flavor. You can also use herring instead of canned fish, sprinkling it with lemon juice.

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