In the winter and autumn season, the acute question arises of what kind of salads to put on the table. Thrifty housewives prepare sauerkraut and pickle tomatoes and cucumbers, but sometimes guests need to be pampered with other pickles. Then the herring salad comes to the rescue. During its existence, this dish has received so many ways of cooking that it will suit both lovers of traditional cuisine and gourmets.

How to choose the right herring

Experienced housewives prefer to buy whole fish in order to gut them with their own hands. It takes a lot of time, but then the meat will definitely be fresh and not frozen. Besides, There are a number of basic rules:

• Feel free to try the fish with your fingers when buying. If dents persist from pressing, they are trying to sell you stale goods.
• Choose large carcasses if you want a dish with a bright taste.
• Do not take herring with a cloudy skin, covered with pigmentation, slimy areas or plaque.
• A too strong, thick smell is a sign that the meat has been salted too much, perhaps to hide the effects of improper storage.
• The fins and tail of the fish must be intact, without mechanical damage.

You can buy already gutted and cut into pieces herring in plastic containers in the supermarket. In this case, the only thing to pay attention to is the integrity of the package and the expiration date.

Timeless classic

After acquiring the main ingredient, you can choose a recipe for cooking. The most common is herring under a "fur coat". To prepare a dish for six people you will need:

• medium sized fish
• four potatoes of the Gala or Impala variety (you can choose a different variety, the main thing is that the root crops are not small);
• two - three beets (it is desirable to use juicy, large vegetables);
• onion head;
• salt to taste;
• olive mayonnaise.

Boil potatoes and beets, cut the herring, remove the bones from it and cut into small cubes. When the vegetables are cooked, put them to cool, and at this time, peel the onion, chop it and marinate in vinegar - this will eliminate the bitterness and make the taste softer. If you don't like the strong smell, scald the onion with boiling water.

Grate potatoes and beets on a fine grater or use a food processor. Each vegetable should be on a separate plate. Now that all the ingredients are ready, you can collect the herring salad. Put a layer of potatoes on a dish, lightly salt, soak with mayonnaise, then add the fish, brush with sauce again, cover with beets.

Repeat these steps until you have used all the ingredients.

It is desirable to make the uppermost level beetroot. Top the salad with mayonnaise and decorate with parsley.

Quick Recipe

“Shuba” is a well-known and tasty dish, but it takes time to prepare it. If guests appeared without warning, then you need to choose other salads from salted herring. In haste, you can cook, for example, a snack with peas. For her you will need:

• packing of cut herring;
• a jar of green peas;
• two large potatoes;
• a head of onions of the Globo or Greatful variety (their roots are of the right size and have a sweet taste);
• salt;
• sunflower oil.

While the potatoes are cooking make sure that there are no large bones in the pieces of herring. Cut the onion into half rings, put in a deep bowl and pour boiling water over it. Add a tablespoon of vinegar and a teaspoon of sugar to the water. Such a marinade will beat off all the bitterness. Take fifteen minutes. If the potatoes are already cooked, then peel them and cut into large pieces, salt.

Drain the marinade from the onions, put the prepared ingredients in a salad bowl, add the peas, pour over with oil and mix. Add chopped herbs for flavor.

Salad with salty notes

A thrifty hostess always has a jar of pickles in the refrigerator. With them, you can make a herring salad with potatoes and cucumbers. Take these vegetables in proportions of 3:2 and complete them:

• fish fillet;
• carrots (2 pieces);
• beets in the amount of two pieces;
• large head of onion;
• eggs (2 pieces);
• olive mayonnaise.

It is better not to add salt to this salad; herring, along with cucumbers, will do the job perfectly without additional seasonings. Boil the vegetables, in a separate saucepan, bring the eggs to a “hard boiled” state, during this time cut the fish into small pieces and chop the onion. Cucumbers cut into cubes. When potatoes, carrots and beets are cooked, peel them and grate them on a coarse grater.

This salad is similar to a "fur coat" in that laid out in layers. Divide the grated potatoes into two parts, pour one half into a salad bowl, brush with mayonnaise, put the herring and onions, soak with sauce again. The next layer is carrot, then beet and, finally, egg. Cover with mayonnaise and add the second half of the potatoes, lay out the cucumbers and cover with the remaining beets.

Decorate the salad with dressing and refrigerate to soak. Two or three hours will be enough.

Option for exotic lovers

Recipes with salted herring please with their diversity, if you want to try something new and without mayonnaise, this dish is for you. Prepare:

• one fish;
• Bulgarian pepper (the larger - the better, it will add juiciness to the salad);
• two - three potatoes;
• two eggs;
• a bunch of greens and green onions;
• 100 g hard cheese.
• mustard and vegetable oil.

For a spicier salad, add a teaspoon of black pepper to it. Boil eggs and potatoes. While they are cooking, prepare the dressing: grate the cheese on a fine grater, chop the herbs and onions. If you have a blender, use it, the effect will be the same. Pour vegetable oil into the mixture, mix and leave to gain taste.

While the food is cooking and cooling, prepare the fish. Cut it into cubes and put in a bowl, adding a spoonful of mustard. To make the taste more tender, pour in the oil. Mix well to distribute seasoning.

Peel and chop the eggs and potatoes, do the same with the peppers. Add this mixture to the herring, stir and pour over the dressing. A delicious salad with a cheese flavor and a hint of herring will be remembered by you and your guests.

scandinavian dish

This dish came to us from afar, but won the favor of the Russian public. The salad, at first glance, seems very unusual, but it has a lot of vitamins and is very easy to prepare. You will need:

• slightly salted herring;
• a third of a head of fresh cabbage;
• two green apples;
• a bunch of lettuce;
• greenery.

For many, it will be an additional plus that mayonnaise is not used in the salad. Instead, you will need 200 g of sour cream, a teaspoon of salt and sugar and 5 g of mustard. Mix these ingredients together and your dressing is ready.

The rest of the elements of the salad will also not give you trouble. Remove the bones from the herring and cut the fish into pieces. Chop the cabbage and apples into strips, salt and mash slightly to let the juice out. Coarsely chop the lettuce and herbs. Mix everything in a salad bowl and add dressing.

Portion salad in lavash

If you want to arrange a buffet with snacks, this dish will come in handy. It is easy to take off the plate and eat on the go without fear of getting your hands dirty with sauce. Take:

• two sheets of Armenian lavash;
• chicken eggs - four pieces;
• two herrings;
• two beets;
• onion head;
• a bunch of chives;
• remoulade for refueling.

Grind beets and herring. If you cut into large pieces, then the salad will fall out of its "wrapper". Also finely chop the onion, boil the eggs, cool and grate on a fine grater. These two ingredients are seasoned with remoulade and brought to a thick paste.

To prepare remoulade, take 200 g of mayonnaise, add olive oil, chopped garlic clove, chopped herbs and onions, a teaspoon of mustard. Mix the dressing well until smooth. If you do not want to spend a lot of time preparing remoulade, then simply add chopped parsley and a spoonful of wine vinegar to the mayonnaise.

Put lavash on the table. If you have a roll mat, use it. Spread the mixture of egg, onion and remoulade generously on the pita bread, followed by the beets, herring and lettuce. Roll everything into a roll, fix at equal intervals with chives. Leave the finished dish in the refrigerator for an hour and a half, then remove and cut into pieces.

Attention, only TODAY!

Potato with herring is a great hearty snack for any occasion, especially for a feast. In general, the dish is prepared easily and very quickly. Each housewife can easily repeat the process and in a matter of minutes, with a slight command of dexterous and skillful hands, potato salad with herring and onion will be on the table.

Salad Ingredients:
• Herring fillet - 100 g,
• Potatoes - 3 pcs.,
• Onion - 1 small head,
• Lemon juice - 1 teaspoon,
• Vegetable oil - 2 tbsp. spoons,
• Table vinegar 9% - 1 tbsp. spoon,
• Dill and parsley greens - 4-5 sprigs,
• Salt and black ground pepper.

The composition of the ingredients is conditional. You can change the quantity as you wish. The more products, the tastier the dish. Feel free to experiment, add other components, skillfully combine and invent your own and snacks.

Warm salad of potatoes and fish in oil

Prepare all the necessary ingredients for making a delicious and easy potato salad.

Boil the potatoes in lightly salted water, cut not too finely, season with spices and pepper.

Cut the onion into thin half rings, dilute the vinegar in cold water and soak it in it for 10-15 minutes.

Cut the herring into moderately thin strips, finely chop the greens and combine parsley, dill, onion and fish with boiled potatoes.

Drizzle the herring potato salad with a little oil, stir and serve.

We can confidently say that men will be especially happy with such a dish. And this is because potatoes with onions and fish incredibly tasty, satisfying and pleasant goes with strong drinks.

- a salad that will never get bored. Salted herring salad with pickled onions, boiled potatoes and canned peas is quick and easy to prepare.

Be sure to put the herring and potato salad in your cookbook for unexpected guests or just as a simple and tasty snack.

Ingredients:
slightly salted fatty herring - 1 pc.
potatoes - 3 pcs.
onion - 2 pcs. medium size
canned peas - 250-300 gr.
pepper
salt
sugar
vinegar
vegetable oil

Salad with herring and potatoes, recipe:

Remove the peel from the onions and cut into half rings. Make a marinade: take 3 parts of water for 1 part of table vinegar, add ground black pepper, a pinch of sugar and salt each and mix well. Pour the chopped onion with the resulting marinade and leave to marinate for about 1 hour to get rid of excess onion bitterness and pungency.

While the onion is marinating, boil the potatoes until cooked, but so that they do not start to boil. When cool, peel it and cut into cubes.

Also clean the herring, separate the fillet from the bones and cut into small slices.

Remove the onion from the marinade and leave it to drain. In a salad bowl, mix all the prepared ingredients, adding canned peas. Fill with a little vegetable oil. Season if necessary and add ground pepper to taste.

Everything, the salad is ready, but it is better to let it stand in the refrigerator for a while, so its taste will become more saturated. Just before serving, stir again and lightly garnish with finely chopped dill, parsley or green onions.

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There are different recipes for herring salads. The most common, perhaps, is herring under a fur coat. But not so long ago I discovered (or rather, they treated me to them) a very tasty salad with herring from boiled potatoes. Comrades, believe me, it is very tasty and satisfying! This salad is a little boring in terms of colors, but the addition of boiled carrots, and in large quantities, makes the salad play with bright colors and makes it more attractive and tastier.

Potato salad with herring can be easily served on the festive table, especially since the New Year and Christmas holidays are just around the corner.

In order for you not to end up with porridge or mashed potatoes, choose the right kind of potatoes that do not boil too much, or do not boil the potatoes a little, so they will keep their shape and will not crumble. And there is one little trick, when boiling potatoes, you can add a little citric acid or a few drops of lemon juice to the water. Thanks to this technique, the potatoes do not boil soft, the tubers retain their shape well.

To prepare potato salad and pickled herring, you will need fairly simple and affordable products.

Ingredients:

• Boiled potatoes 8 - 9 pieces (medium size),
• Salted or pickled herring 2 - 3 pieces,
• Boiled carrots 5 - 6 medium root vegetables,
• Onion - 3 heads (medium),
• Adyghe salt - 1.5 tbsp. spoons,
• Fresh parsley - 1 bunch
• Vegetable oil unrefined,
• Black ground pepper to taste.

Cooking process:

First, boil the carrots and potatoes in their skins. You can boil vegetables for salad not only with a gas stove, but also cook them in a slow cooker or microwave. Boiled vegetables need to be cooled and then peeled. In the meantime, vegetables are cooked, we will clean the onion and herring for the salad. This time we had spicy salted herring, hefty fragrant, you just lick your fingers (this is me so that your salivation was even more abundant).

Peeled herring fillet should be cut into small cubes.

Grind boiled and peeled carrots into small cubes.

Do the same with potatoes.

Now it's the turn of the onion, it should be finely chopped. For those who do not like the pungent smell and bitter taste of onions, I recommend pouring boiling water over them after slicing and holding for 10 minutes. We do not do such manipulations, since everyone respects raw onions.

Rinse fresh parsley thoroughly and chop not too finely.

Salt for salad we used Adyghe. I discovered it for the first time for myself and I really liked it. This is a wonderful "union" of coarse salt, aromatic herbs, dried garlic, coriander, savory. I have already read that such delicious fragrant salt can be prepared on my own at home, so I’ll take a chance and cook it, if I can, I’ll share it with you. So now I will cook all my dishes exclusively with this salt. Of course, dough and other sweet pastries, which include salt, will be an exception.

Thanks to Slavyana for the recipe and photo of the salad.

Bon appetit wishes the site Notebook of recipes!

The combination of boiled potatoes with delicate salted herring, presented mentally, immediately causes an appetite.I offer you a new interesting way to serve the good old "potatoes with herring." The salad is very, very tasty, and, despite the familiar combination of ingredients, quite non-trivial. Take for this salad the highest quality, tastiest, richest potatoes you can find, because their taste in this dish is the main one. With boring, inexpressive potatoes, the salad will turn out to be "no."

3 medium potatoes (I used yellow "organic" Yukon Gold potatoes)

1 tsp lemon juice

ground black pepper to taste

quality olive oil to taste

half a small onion

50 ml white wine or apple cider vinegar

1 tsp Sahara

1/4 tsp salt (plus a little more to taste)

100 g herring fillet, salted or pickled

1 clove of garlic

a few sprigs of dill and/or fennel and/or parsley (I used all three herbs)

Boil the potatoes in their skins in salted water until tender (the potatoes should be soft, but not boiled.) Cool a little, peel and cut into fairly large pieces (we cut each potato into halves, and then each half into about 6 parts.) Salt, pepper, sprinkle with lemon juice and season with olive oil. It is important to do this while the potatoes are still warm. We leave for a while.

Vinegar mixed with 1/4 tsp. salt and sugar. Let the salt and sugar dissolve. We cut the onion into very thin quarter rings.

Put the onion in vinegar and leave for 30 minutes. Drain the marinade, squeeze the onion lightly.

We cut the herring into small slices, pass the garlic through a press, finely chop the greens. Combine all salad ingredients together and mix. Taste and adjust the amount of salt and olive oil.