Salads

Herring Salad

by Editorial Staff

In this herring salad, the taste is balanced. Such a dish is easy to prepare, it contains the most affordable products – herring, apples, eggs and potatoes. Everyone will like it. Salad dressing – no mayonnaise. You can serve the salad in tartlets.

Summary

Prep Time20 mins
Cook Time25 mins
Total Time45 mins
CourseSalad
CuisineRussian

Herring Salad Ingredients

  • Lightly salted herring – 1 pc.
  • Potatoes – 1 pc.
  • Apple – 1 pc.
  • Eggs – 2 pcs.
  • Bulb onions – 1 pc.
  • Sesame – 1 tbsp
  • Sour cream – 3-4 tbsp
  • Lemon juice – 1 tbsp
  • Mustard – 1 teaspoon
  • Vegetable oil – 2 tbsp
  • Sugar – 1 teaspoon
  • Ground black pepper – 0.5 teaspoon

Herring Salad

Herring Salad Instructions

  1. Prepare the necessary foods for the herring salad. Boil the potatoes in their uniforms, cool. Boil eggs hard-boiled, cool.
    Herring Salad step 1
  2. To make a salad dressing, pour vegetable oil into a small container, add sour cream, sugar, pepper, mustard. Mix everything.
  3. Peel the boiled eggs and separate the yolks from the whites. Chop the yolks with a fork and add them to the sour cream dressing. Leave the dressing aside.
  4. Cut the egg whites into cubes. Peel the boiled potatoes and cut into cubes. Peel the herring of skin, bones, entrails and cut into cubes. Peel and core the apple, cut into cubes and sprinkle with lemon juice. Peel the onion and cut into small cubes.
  5. Place diced herring in a deep salad bowl, add onions, potatoes, apple, sesame seeds. Mix everything.
  6. Combine the herring salad with the dressing and stir again so that the dressing is evenly distributed.
    Herring Salad step 6
  7. Put the finished salad of herring, potatoes, onions, apples and eggs into tartlets or put in a salad bowl and serve.

Bon Appetit!

Editorial Staff

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