Several generations of Russians sincerely love Mimosa salad. Each housewife has her own recipe for sardine salad, and no one option is alike, despite the same ingredients. In this collection, we have collected the best recipes for "Mimosa".
The history of lettuce goes back several decades - in the distant 60s there was a shortage of anything, but not canned fish. Inventive Soviet housewives instantly came up with a way to ennoble canned food, wrapping them in a delicate coat of vegetables and mayonnaise sauce. For all the unusual combination of ingredients, the dish comes out tasty, and with some skills, it is not at all heavy and juicy.
Cook vegetables in advance, cool and clean. Cut the onion into cubes, scald with boiling water, removing all the bitterness. Open a jar of sardines, drain the oil, knead with a fork into neat small fibers (or cubes). Let's prepare a large flat dish or a mold with silicone rims - here we will lay out the layers of salad. In order for the first layer to lie better on a plate, you can lightly grease a clean plate with mayonnaise. And now we start collecting.
The topmost layer should consist of finely grated yolks: the fluffy balls resemble the blossoming mimosa, which gave the name to the salad.
The salad with the floral name "Mimosa" occupies a leading position among the favorite salads of our housewives. It mainly serves as a decoration for the festive table and is prepared not only in everyday life, but also on special days.
This salad appeared in the 60-70s of the last century.
Its popularity can be attributed to the availability and cheapness of the products from which it is prepared.
After all, whatever the times are, difficult or full of abundance of food, our people love to eat tasty and satisfying food and surprise guests at the feast with their culinary talents.
You don't need to be a chef to make it, but, like any other dish, the Mimosa salad has some subtleties and nuances that need to be taken into account when preparing it.
The salad consists of layers that need to be coated with mayonnaise, except for the last - the top one. For this purpose, you need to use only mayonnaise with high fat content, thick, otherwise the "Mimosa" salad will lose its taste. Diet mayonnaise is contraindicated in this case.
Of course, it is better to choose mayonnaise, close to natural, without any E-shny additives. This tip also applies to dishes other than salads. Their taste directly depends on the products from which it is prepared.
Homemade mayonnaise cannot be compared to store-bought mayonnaise. Its preparation will not take much time and will not hit the pocket, and the taste of the dish cooked with it is soft, pleasant, and reveals all the flavor notes.
All homemade mayonnaises are prepared from available products: eggs, vegetable oil, lemon juice (you can replace it with a pinch of citric acid or vinegar), spices, you can add mustard, garlic and other ingredients. With a mixer, or better with a blender, mix everything until smooth - and you can start preparing your favorite salads.
Products that make up any Mimosa salad:
An important point in cooking is the preparation of food for him. All vegetables, eggs and other ingredients should only be grated on a fine grater.
Otherwise, the taste of "Mimosa" salad will not be so bright and rich, small pieces reveal the whole range of tastes. In addition, for some people large chunks are not only unusual, they are unacceptable.
One of the important factors in the preparation of Mimosa salad is the correct alternation of its layers. Recipes with fish as the first layer are not entirely correct.
These recipes are suitable for those who want to make the whole process faster and easier, forgetting about the taste. In addition, the fish may leak a little (if you used canned soup dishonestly).
So, let's take the "Mimosa" salad, a classic recipe with step-by-step photos of preparation. For the first layer, you need to lay the grated potatoes, not pressing it, but making it seem airy. You do not need to use all the potatoes, you will still need it - only a part of it, so that the fish does not lie on the salad bowl.
The fish is laid in the second layer. She needs special attention. In the case of canned food, it is necessary to drain the oil soup, remove all the bones from the fish and mash the remaining pulp with a fork (it is better to do this in a separate bowl).
Someone prefers to marinate it in advance, some simply scald it with boiling water. In any case, before that, it must be finely chopped, and then pour a little canned oil on the layer (if any).
Spread the remaining chopped potatoes over the onion layer. After it comes the turn of carrots. Having laid it flat, you can move on to the eggs. Divide boiled eggs into whites and yolks. The first is to lay the protein layer, the second will be from the yolk.
All layers in the salad should be greased with mayonnaise and a little salt. On top of the salad "Mimosa" can be decorated as you like: use herbs, eggs, carrots.
And it is best to use your imagination, then everything will turn out not only tasty, but also beautiful. For a rich taste and impregnation of each layer, "Mimosa" should be placed in the refrigerator for several hours.
Classic Mimosa salad it differs from this only in the absence of cheese in it. Cheese in the salad plays an important role, gives it tenderness and adds interesting flavor notes.
Boil and peel vegetables, except for onions, and eggs for salad. Separate the whites from the yolks. We get rid of canned fish from oil and seeds, mash with a fork until the consistency of a fine gruel.
It is necessary to lay out the layers of food, grated on a fine grater, in such proportions and sequence, smearing them all with mayonnaise (300 g): 2-3 potatoes, 1 jar of canned fish (you can take any: saury sardine, pink salmon), a layer of the remaining potatoes, one small onion, 2 carrots, whites of 3 eggs, 200 g of cheese, yolks of 3 eggs.
You do not need to smear on top with mayonnaise.
After preparing the salad, you need to keep it in the refrigerator for a couple of hours.This version of the salad is the cheapest and easiest to prepare, since it contains a minimum of products. It was this "Mimosa" that became the original, and the classic salad recipe appeared only in the nineties of the last century.
You must first prepare the products. Boil 5 hard-boiled eggs, chill, peel and divide into whites and yolks. Drain the liquid from one can of canned saury, remove the seeds and mash with a fork. Peel one onion and chop finely. Grate one hundred grams of cheese and egg whites separately, yolks on a fine grater or mash them with a fork until they become mushy.
Alternating layers is also different from other recipes. So, the first layer is to put proteins. Grated cheese comes second. Next, we put canned fish. Put finely chopped onions in the next layer. We take a coarse grater and rub hard butter (80 g). A layer of chopped yolks completes the cooking.
All layers, except for the last one, are lubricated with mayonnaise (150 g) and salt in the process. Before use, let the salad infuse in a cool place for at least 2 hours.Not an ordinary, but quite tasty version of the cream cheese salad. All ingredients play well with each other and are combined, and melted cheese gives Mimosa tenderness.
Cooking begins with boiling vegetables (a couple of potatoes and one carrot), two eggs. All products, boiled vegetables, eggs, one processed cheese, peel and finely grate (the whites are separate from the yolks). Remove the bones from the sardines, drain all unnecessary liquid from the jar in advance (1 piece is needed for the salad), and knead them with a fork.
After preparing the ingredients, we start shaping the salad. Put chopped potatoes in the first layer, grease with mayonnaise (for a recipe, you can take 220 g, with a high fat content), then fish.
Grated proteins and processed cheese are next. Carefully level the layers without pressing them. Rub a frozen piece of butter on top, 5 g is enough. Next, carrots, do not forget to spread each layer with mayonnaise and add some salt. The last yolk layer, you can decorate it with herbs on top.
The salad needs time, at least 2 hours, to soak in a cold place. After that, the "Mimosa" salad with processed cheese is ready to eat.The first step in cooking is to boil, then cool half a glass of rice. You also need to hard-boil 6 eggs and 4 medium carrots. Peel them and rub finely, dividing the eggs into yolks and whites.
Grate a small piece of hard cheese, about 200 g, through a fine grater.
Cut two medium onions into cubes and scald with boiling water. Mash one or two jars of canned fish (tuna, saury, pink salmon, sardine, salmon) with a fork until smooth, drain the oil and take out the bones.
Now let's start distributing the layers of the lettuce. Laying in turn, do not forget about mayonnaise, coat each layer with it, salt. We lay our products in layers: rice, grated hard cheese, chopped proteins, fish, onions, grated carrots, egg yolks.
An apple with salmon in a salad gives it an interesting multifaceted taste. The apple flavor also brings freshness. To make the salad more unusual, with mayonnaise, you can use sour cream, two tablespoons are enough.
You need to start cooking by boiling a couple of potatoes and 5 eggs. After cooling the eggs, peel and grind on a fine grater, grate the yolks from the proteins separately. Scald two heads of red onions with boiling water, chop finely.
It is better to take apples of sweet and sour varieties, Antonovka and Simirenko are ideal, wash, peel and grate, 3 pieces are enough. Knead one jar of canned salmon with a fork.
From these products you need to make a puff salad "Mimosa". Put potatoes in the initial layer, then egg whites, then a thin layer of onions, apples, salmon, and the final layer is chopped yolks. Each layer must be smeared with mayonnaise, 200 g is enough, and salt them to taste.
This version of "Mimosa" is interesting in that it does not take canned fish, as we are used to, but boiled fish.
So, you need to start cooking fish. Boil 200 g of salmon fillet with salt. Separate the fish flesh from the extra bones and mash with a fork. You also need to start boiling 4 chicken eggs and one medium carrot. Finely rub them and about 200 g of cheese, egg yolks separately from whites. Chop a small bunch of green onions.
Now we take our ingredients and put them, smearing them with mayonnaise, adding salt. The layers need to be alternated as follows: proteins, salmon, onions, hard cheese, egg yolks. You can decorate "Mimosa" with the remaining herbs. Before use, for a couple of hours, the salad should "rest" in the refrigerator.
I already wrote about mimosa salad. Mimosa salad got this name because of its appearance. Especially if it is properly decorated with dill and yolk, it definitely resembles spring mimosa flowers.
In the countries of the former Soviet Union, mimosa salad was very popular. He even began to overshadow such salads as herring under a fur coat.
As a result of such popular love, new ingredients appeared in the salad, but this did not make it worse.
The main ingredients of the salad are fish, usually canned, whites and yolks of boiled eggs, butter, onions and mayonnaise.
But as I said, other ingredients are now added, and the salad is still considered a classic.
These are the salads we will prepare with you.
1. Drain the oil from the canned fish, put the fish in a deep bowl and knead with a fork.
2. Wash potatoes and carrots, peel, rub on a coarse grater, each vegetable in a separate cup.
3. Finely chop the onion.
4. Boil the eggs hard-boiled, let them cool, divide them into whites and yolks. Rub the proteins on a coarse grater.
5. Either rub the yolks on a fine grater, or rub with your hands.
6. We begin to collect the salad. We will be collecting salad in a pastry ring. Of course, you can do this without a ring. Lay out the first layer of fish.
7. We level the fish evenly over the entire area of the ring, slightly condense, fill with mayonnaise. Season with mayonnaise to your liking. Someone loves a lot, someone less. We put a little, just enough to cover the entire surface in a thin layer.
8. The next layer is to spread the proteins. We also seal. We seal it very simply, put our hand in a plastic bag and press down the layer with our hand. Lubricate the proteins with mayonnaise.
9. Then lay out a layer of boiled carrots. You can boil all vegetables in advance, the day before, so that they cool well. We compact the carrots and season with mayonnaise.
10. Spread a layer of onions, season with mayonnaise.
11. With the next layer, lay out the yolks, again season with mayonnaise.
12. The last layer is to spread the boiled grated potatoes. We seal well. Do not press with all your weight, lightly with your hand.
13. Align. We coat well with mayonnaise.
14. Let's walk a thin knife between the salad and the ring, as if separating them from each other and remove the ring.
15. Carefully level the mayonnaise so that the top is smooth and even.
16. Decorate our salad with dill and yolk. Dill sprigs look like mimosa sprigs, so we got well, almost real mimosa.
Be sure to let it brew for a few hours. So that is all. Our mimosa salad is ready.
Handsome. It's even a pity to touch. Well, I do not. Let's go to the table.
Bon Appetit!
1. Boil potatoes and carrots. Chop the onion as small as possible.
2. Take water and vinegar in equal parts, about 30 grams each and pour in finely chopped onions. It is necessary to let the onion stand for 10-15 minutes, so that it marinates.
3. Boil eggs hard-boiled, let cool. Actually, potatoes, carrots and eggs can be boiled the day before. Less and less fuss on this day.
4. Remove the skin from the apple and rub it on a coarse grater. We put the apple on the dish where we will make our salad, give this mass the shape of a future salad and season with a little mayonnaise.
5. Take the fish, after draining the oil from it. If hard bones are felt in the fish, it is best to discard them. Unfortunately, this happens in today's canned food. If the bones are soft, then we break each piece of fish with our hands and put it on the apples, with the next layer. Season with a little mayonnaise.
6. Rub butter on a fine grater. To rub it well, put it in the freezer for a few minutes. If you don’t like butter, don’t put it.
7. Rub the cheese and spread it in the next layer on the butter. Lubricate the top lightly with mayonnaise.
8. The next layer is to rub the potatoes on a fine grater. Lubricate with mayonnaise, a little more than the previous layers. Put the pickled onions on the potatoes.
9. On a fine grater, rub the carrots and spread them in the next layer.
10. Separate the whites from the yolks. We rub a couple of proteins on a fine grater into a salad, grease everything with mayonnaise and rub the rest of the proteins on top.
11. Smooth the protein (do not smear with mayonnaise) and rub the yolk on top, on a fine grater. This is our final beauty layer.
We level the yolk. Decorate the salad with a sprig of parsley. Our mimosa salad is ready.
Let's go try. We tried it. Well, very tasty! Try you.
Bon Appetit!
Mimosa salad is not only beautiful, it is also very tasty. If you love fish salads, this is the one for you. Mimosa salad is suitable both for weekends (you still need to tinker with it) and for holidays. The main ingredients for the salad are canned fish, eggs, mayonnaise and vegetables. Sometimes apple, rice and other ingredients are added to the salad.
I look forward to your comments. Like salads, what's wrong. What would you like
You can cook mimosa at home in one of several ways, with the addition of different ingredients, but the recipe for mimosa salad with canned food is especially popular. The main components, except for fish, are vegetables or rice, onions, eggs. The traditional dressing is high-fat salad mayonnaise. Some recipes use butter, processed cheese, apples.
Mimosa is a multi-layered salad with canned fish. Delicious and nutritious. A frequent guest at festive feasts, it is popular in everyday lunches and dinners due to the simple cooking process.
The beautiful name of the mimosa salad is due to the top layer. Traditionally - yolk grated or crumbled on the surface of the salad, associated with a delicate spring flower.
The salad was very popular during the Soviet era. Now, housewives often prepare a delicious, nutritious dish that can be beautifully decorated and served on a festive table, like Olivier salad.
About the choice of mayonnaise
The best solution for mimosa salad is a thick, high-fat mayonnaise. Lightweight, low-calorie cold sauces are healthier, but do not allow the full flavor of the salad to unfold.
3 basic rules
This is a classic salad base ("pillow") for other ingredients, especially canned fish.
Place the remaining layers in the mimosa as you like, for example, divide the grated potatoes into 2 parts and add an additional layer of potatoes to the salad.
When laying out mimosa in layers, try to distribute the food evenly over the area of the dish. Pay attention to grated carrots and potatoes. Sprinkle the ingredients gently to avoid clumping.
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Helpful advice. Add ground black pepper between layers.
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Using sprat in tomato sauce is an interesting and daring move in mimosa salad. The dish has an unusual taste, but it turns out to be no less nutritious.
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Bon Appetit!
The classic version of cooking mimosa salad with canned food. For piquancy and special taste, grated cheese is used.
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Eat to your health!
An interesting salad option without the classic vegetable ingredients (potatoes, onions and carrots). The main emphasis in this mimosa recipe is on the combination of cheese and butter. It is very easy to prepare, it turns out incredibly tasty.
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Helpful advice. Use a fork to check if the vegetables are done. It is quite difficult to calculate the exact cooking time. The specific value depends on the variety and size of the tubers.
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Tuna is incredibly healthy and nutritious fish with a minimum of fat and a lot of protein. The use of apple in mimosa brings a touch of originality to the well-recognizable taste and makes it possible to “crunch” the salad.
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Helpful advice. Do not use a blender to chop vegetables, otherwise you will get gruel, and not finely and evenly grated ingredients.
Helpful advice. I rub the apple last so it doesn't turn black.
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The energy value of mimosa salad depends on the fat content of mayonnaise and canned fish. In one case, the hostess can use a low-calorie cold sauce along with tuna in their own juice, containing a minimum amount of fat. In another situation - high-calorie salad mayonnaise and saury in oil.