Mimosa salad is one of the most popular holiday dishes in the Soviet years. But now he does not lose his popularity, especially on such family holidays as New Year, Easter, May festive feasts. Also, the dish is often prepared on ordinary weekdays to diversify the usual daily diet. We offer several completely different, very tasty options for the preparation of Mimosa.
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Classic Mimosa salad with canned saury
The classic Mimosa recipe is prepared from boiled vegetables, canned food from any fish and eggs. Everything is seasoned with mayonnaise. A dish is necessarily formed from layers of products used. It looks especially beautiful in a glass, deep salad bowl, or assembled using a special shape in the form of a ring for salads.
- boiled eggs - 7 units;
- onions - 2 small;
- carrots - 2;
- boiled potatoes - 6;
- mayonnaise;
- saury - 1 can.
Boil vegetables (except onions) and hard-boiled eggs. You need to chop the onion as small as possible so that it releases juice well. Kneeling saury with a fork, if necessary, removing hard bones, pre-draining half the liquid, mix with onions. We divide eggs into protein and yolk parts.
Products are laid out on a salad bowl in layers:
- Half of the grated potatoes are distributed evenly.
- Saury with onions are evenly distributed with a fork.
- Grated egg whites.
- Grated carrots.
- Grated layer of remaining potatoes.
- Grated yolks.
All layers are covered with a mesh of mayonnaise from a tube, or smeared with a brush.
On a note. Onions and carrots can be separately fried before adding. Carrots in this case are not boiled.
Step-by-step recipe with pink salmon
Pink salmon goes well with the components of classic Mimosa.Therefore, canned pink salmon may well replace saury.
Ingredients:
- potatoes - 4 units;
- eggs - 5 units;
- mayonnaise - 500 ml;
- carrots - 2 units;
- pink salmon - 1 can;
- the cheese is hard. varieties - 300 gr;
- onion - 1 unit;
- vinegar - ½ tea l .;
- mix of greens - several branches.
Dip eggs in water at room temperature, boil for 5 minutes after boiling, boil carrots and potatoes, checking readiness with a knife / fork. All cool and remove from the peel. Peel the eggs from the shell, separate the proteins from the yolks. Grate the protein, and grind the yolk with a fork. Cheese is also coarsely grated.
Chop the onion, add a small amount and vinegar. After 10 minutes, drain the liquid.
Three large carrots and potatoes. Mash fish, as in the previous version, into gruel.
We form a salad, laying out the components in layers:
- Fish mass.
- Grated Squirrels.
- Grated carrot.
- Onion.
- Potatoes.
- Cheese.
- The yolks.
Each row, excluding the yolk, is covered with a layer / mesh of mayonnaise. It is recommended to cool the appetizer in the cold before use. During this time, the dish will not only cool, but will also be saturated with the juices of all the constituent products.
On a note. In order not to make a mistake when purchasing canned fish in the fullness of the jar, shake it - if the brine splashes too much, then the jar is not densely packed with fish.
How to cook with sardines?
The most simple salad with sardines with a minimum set of products in the composition is prepared in a matter of minutes:
- saury canned. - 1 bank;
- boiled eggs - 5 units;
- boiled carrots - 1 unit;
- non-greasy mayonnaise;
- some salt.
Mash the sardine with a fork in a separate bowl. Chop the egg whites, and grate the yolk - everything should be on separate plates.
We collect the salad in the dish in layers: fish mass, carrots, proteins, the last are the yolks. Grease each layer with mayonnaise and lightly salt.
Before serving, let it brew for a couple of hours in the cold.
Fact. Yolks always go the last layer, as they serve as decoration. It is precisely because they cause association with the yellow spring flower of the same name that the dish is called Mimosa.
With cheese
Mimosa with cheese is no less tender and tasty than the classic version of this salad.
More materials:mimosa salad with cheese
We suggest you take note of the Mimosa cheese from the following products:
- eggs - 3 units;
- pink salmon canned. - 1 bank;
- small onions - 1 unit;
- mayonnaise;
- hard cheese - 100 gr.
Boil eggs in advance. Finely chop the onion and mix with mashed pink salmon.
Divide the eggs into proteins and yolks, chop individually. Protein chop and put the first layer. The next layer is mayonnaise. Next comes the fish and onions, mayonnaise, grated cheese and again the mayonnaise layer. At the end, egg yolks rub.
On a note. To make the salad really tasty, use a good, hard cheese from a trusted manufacturer. You can consider the cheeses Gouda, Russian, Kostroma.
Mimosa salad with apples
Some fruits give a rather unusual, but at the same time pleasant taste to familiar dishes. Mimosa salad with saury acquires a new flavor, if you add a little grated sweet and sour apple to it.
For apple Mimosa you will need:
- a small, sweet and sour apple;
- canned sardine - 1 can;
- potatoes - 3;
- carrots - 3;
- hard-boiled eggs - 5;
- onion - 1 unit;
- vinegar is a table. l .;
- water is a table. l .;
- hard cheese - 100 gr;
- mayonnaise.
Chop the onion as finely as possible, fill the pulp with cold water with vinegar and leave to marinate.
In the meantime, we will deal with other products. The apple must be peeled and grated coarsely - this will be the first layer of salad. Grease it with mayonnaise. Next is the mashed canned fish, also lubricated with mayonnaise. The next layers are grated cheese, a little mayonnaise, grated coarsely boiled potatoes, again sauce, pickled onions, grated boiled carrots, half grated protein, a layer of mayonnaise sauce, the remaining proteins and grated yolk.
On a note.The apple should not be too juicy and soft. Choose sweet and sour varieties with crispy flesh.
With crab sticks
A non-standard option for everyone's favorite Mimosa salad can be made by replacing canned fish with crab sticks.
We suggest taking such a non-standard recipe:
- carrots - 3;
- potatoes - 4;
- eggs - 4 units;
- crab sticks - 200 gr.
Boil eggs and vegetables until cooked. To clean. Separate egg whites and yolks. Protein grate coarsely, and yolks finely. Grate carrots and potatoes coarsely. Finely chop the sticks into cubes.
Spread half the potatoes with the first layer, then sticks, squirrels, leftover potatoes, carrots, yolks.
Coat each layer with mayonnaise. The last, yolk layer, do not grease with sauce - the yolks act as a decoration.
Rice Cooking Recipe
If you add a layer of boiled rice groats to Mimosa, then the dish can be served as a full dinner.
Pretty satisfying and always delicious, you can prepare a salad from the composition of the products:
- rice - ½ cup .;
- sardine - 1 can;
- eggs - 7 units;
- carrots - 2 units;
- onions - medium turnip;
- mayonnaise.
Rice, eggs are boiled until salad is cooked so that the products cool. Carrots are also boiled until tender, peeled.
First, put rice groats in the salad bowl, then mashed fish, chopped onions mixed with mayonnaise, grated egg white, greased with mayonnaise, carrots chopped on a grater, cover with mayonnaise, and decorate the tree with yolk crumb from above.
On a note. For the preparation of salad, it is recommended to use round-grain polished rice.
With butter and cheese
Mimosa with canned food is even more tender if you use a small amount of butter and tasty hard cheese during cooking.
We recommend saving the following option:
- saury canned. - 1 bank;
- boiled rice - 1 cup .;
- hard. cheese - 150 gr;
- eggs are boiled. - 4 units;
- onion feathers - a bunch;
- mayonnaise - 3-5 table. l .;
- drain. oil - 80 g;
- salt - ¼ tsp
The first thing is three half of the cheese and spread in a salad bowl in an even layer. The next is a layer of mashed canned food, a little mayonnaise sauce. Next are grated proteins, chopped onions, mayonnaise, yolks, greased with mayonnaise. On top is rice, grated cheese again, grated (pre-frozen) butter. The last is a light layer of mayonnaise. Each time the sauce is slightly salted.
We decorate the top at will. Before serving, cool for at least a quarter of an hour in the refrigerator.
