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Despite the unusual appearance of the treat, the recipe for salad Fox coat with mushrooms is quite simple. The name of the dish comes from the red color of the top layer – it is in the carrot salad. Unlike the well-known herring under a fur coat, this salad has many variations. It is prepared on a fish basis, meat, mushroom and mixed.
In the Fox coat salad, the top layer is made from carrots
How to cook fox coat salad
The fox coat is classified as a layered salad. The main components are: a protein base (meat, fish, crab sticks, mushrooms), vegetable layers, where the top must be carrot and sauce for bonding.
Many associate a fox coat with a herring under a fur coat. But this is only the first and very distant similarity. Beets are not used here. And the taste of the salad is more tender and refined.
Any hostess can change the set of ingredients to her liking. The main thing is to follow the general cooking algorithm. Here are some rules for preparing this original and beautiful dish:
- in the classic version of cooking, mushrooms are used, these can be champignons, oyster mushrooms, wild mushrooms, they should be fried;
- the first layer is always protein, the last is carrot orange;
- in the traditional recipe, a potato layer is used;
- the layers in the salad are made quite thin, but always dense – this allows you to emphasize the taste of each ingredient;
- after each stage, grease with sauce, if it is mayonnaise, it is enough to put a net on the salad using a pastry bag.
Having prepared a dish, the housewives show their imagination. How to decorate the top layer is a matter of taste. Lots of decor options.
As a sauce, an alternative to mayonnaise are home-made dressings based on sour cream or natural yogurt. These products are mixed with a small amount of mustard and lemon juice. Add a little olive oil if desired.
An easy way to decorate: applying a mesh of mayonnaise
The orange color of the dish is due to the top layer of carrots. The most experienced housewives can change the recipe, use other products as vegetables for the top layer. For example, baked pumpkin. The benefits of the dish with such a replacement will increase significantly.
Thanks to the protein layer, the salad is nutritious. Its calorie content is not very high.
The recipe for making a Fox coat with herring and mushrooms is considered a classic. For this dish, it is advisable to take slightly salted herring. If it is well salted, the fish can be soaked. But this must be done in advance.
In advance, you can prepare the ingredients that will be needed to prepare the salad: boil eggs, boil carrots (if provided in the recipe) and potatoes. The layers in the dish can be interchanged, but the top one is always made from carrots.
Soak herring in cold tea, milk or water. The processing time depends on the salt concentration and ranges from 30 minutes to 3 hours. This is enough to get rid of excess salt.
To prepare the fish base, they take salmon, herring, trout, which is also desirable to use either lightly salted or soaked. With an excess of salt, the taste of vegetables is lost.
If the protein base is planned to be meat, then almost any type of meat can be used for this. In a chicken salad, the bottom layer is made from boiled or smoked chicken breast.
To spice up the dish, olives, pickled gherkins, and capers are often used. For lovers of spicy snacks, the top layer can be prepared from Korean carrots. In other variations, boiled or raw carrots are used.
From the moment of preparation to serving the salad, it is necessary to stand for 2 – 3 hours. Therefore, it must be prepared well in advance of the arrival of guests. So that the top layer does not lose its attractiveness, you can cover the dish with polyethylene and refrigerate.
Classic salad recipe Fox coat with mushrooms and herring
Ingredients:
- salted herring fillet – 150 g;
- potatoes and carrots – 150 g each;
- fresh champignons – 100 g;
- onions – 1 head;
- egg – 2 pcs .;
- oil for frying – 20 g;
- mayonnaise to taste.
Prepare the dish in this order:
- Wash carrots and potatoes and boil in water until tender. Then cool the vegetables and clean them. Grate boiled fruits into separate plates.
- Chop hard-boiled eggs in a separate bowl. You can finely chop, grate or smash in a blender.
- Slice the head of the onion into thin half rings.
- Clean and wash fresh mushrooms. Dry on a paper towel. Cut into slices. Fry in vegetable oil along with onions until the resulting juice is completely evaporated.
- Cut the herring fillet into small cubes. Lay them in a salad bowl or a large flat plate.
- Lay a thin dense layer of grated potatoes on top of the herring. Make a mayonnaise net on it. Put the mushrooms in a thin layer, and again draw a grid with mayonnaise.
- Sprinkle the mushroom layer with grated carrots. With the help of chopped eggs, “draw” a tail or muzzle for the chanterelle. Eyes can be made from halves of olives.
Salad decoration option with egg and olives
Salad Fox coat with red fish and champignons
The peculiarities of this salad are that it is based on tender trout, and cream cheese is used to fasten the layers. Piquancy gives a clove of garlic and a few walnut kernels.
Walnuts (kernels) will need 40 g, cream cheese – 200 g, garlic – 1 clove. In addition to the cheese, there is finely chopped parsley (1 bunch).
Carrots in this salad are not boiled, they are used raw. But in order for the taste to be harmonious, the root crop must be grated on a fine grater.
Boiled potatoes are not rubbed, but cut into small cubes. The nuts are lightly toasted in a dry frying pan.
Otherwise, the salad is prepared using the same algorithm of actions as in the classic version. Lettuce layers are distributed as follows:
- Trout cubes.
- Thin layer of cream cheese and chopped greens.
- Potato cubes.
- Cheese layer.
- Chopped eggs.
- Fried nut kernels.
- Cream cheese mixed with minced garlic and herbs.
- A layer of grated raw carrots.
To decorate the dish, circles of olives and sprigs of greens are suitable.
Salad recipe Fox coat with herring and mushrooms
To prepare the Fox coat with herring, you can use pickled mushrooms. If it is possible to collect or buy fresh mushrooms, then they should be fried with onions – just like in the traditional version.
But if you take pickled mushrooms for a salad, the taste will become brighter. They are cut into small pieces. To add a spicy note to the taste, crushed garlic is added to the mushroom mass.
Salad Fox coat with Korean-style chicken and carrots
Ingredients required for cooking:
- chicken fillet – 300 g;
- pickled mushrooms – 200 g;
- carrots in Korean – 200 g;
- chicken eggs – 3 pcs .;
- onion – 1 head;
- mayonnaise – 200 g;
- vinegar and sugar for pickling onions;
- salt and pepper – to taste.
In a salad with Korean carrots, pre-pickled onions are used.
Preparation:
- Boil the chicken fillet.
- Hard-boiled eggs.
- Cut the onion into rings and marinate in vinegar with salt and sugar for 5 minutes.
- Cut the cooled breast into cubes. Finely chop the pickled mushrooms with a knife. Grate the eggs.
- Lay out the layers in the following sequence: chicken breast, onion, mayonnaise mesh, eggs, mayonnaise mesh, carrots.
If you want to add spice, adding a hint of smoked meat to the taste of boiled meat, you can additionally make a layer of grated smoked sausage cheese.
Salad fox coat with salmon
Very tasty and beautiful salad. And if you decorate the top layer with salmon caviar, then the dish will become very refined!
The top layer in a salad with salmon can be red caviar
The cooking algorithm does not differ from the classical one. Vegetables and eggs are boiled and allowed to cool. For cooking you will need: 3 potatoes, 2 carrots, 300 g of salmon, 2 eggs, 1 onion and mayonnaise.
Salmon is desirable to choose not too salty. Unlike the classics, mushrooms are not used in the dish. Salmon is a fairly nutritious product, it is good without additional additives.
Onions are fried or pre-marinated. You can add fried mushrooms if you like.
Conclusion
The recipe for salad Fox coat with mushrooms is useful for those who want to show imagination and surprise guests. This is a great option for a holiday table. A delicious nutritious dish, decorated in an original way, will decorate the table and create a festive mood.
