"Herring Under Fur Coat"-Russian Salat

 Getting prepared for Thanksgiving day with a russian salat  "Herring Under Fur Coat",,because all my friends love it. :)

To prepare russian herring salad, “Herring Under Fur Coat”, you need to have whole salted herring. And of course you need to know how to fillet it, so read this post if you don’t.

Herring Under Fur Coat is a word-to-word translation of russian name of this salad: “Seledka pod Shuboj”, which represents salted herring under a “coat” of boiled vegetables. So, as you’ve probably guessed, you will also need boiled vegetables (potatoes, carrots and beats) and green onions. In the rest, this is 5-layers salad with a lot of mayonnaise.
This salad requires some time and agility to assemble it, also it needs at least 12 hours for layers to soak after it is assembled. So make sure you have enough time before you plan to serve it.

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Ingredients:

• 1 big or 2 small whole herrings (pickled with a salt)
• a piece onion
• 1 big potato
• 3-4 middle size carrots
• 3 medium size beets
• Mayonnaise

1.Prepare ingredients: boil carrots, potatoes and beets for salad, let them cool till room temperature and and skin; fillet salted herrings

2.Dice herring fillets (and pick bones if you see any)

3.Add chopped green onions as third layer and dress with mayonnaise

4.Grate boiled potato on big slots of grater and form round layer in the middle of the plate (make sure you have about 2 inches left till the edges of the plate):

5.Dress layer of grated potato with mayonnaise (yes, you need liquid mayo which is easy to pour):

6.Cover whole thing with an even layer of boiled carrots grated on big slots, use your hands to form the shape:

7.Spread mayonnaise on the surface:

8.Cover whole thing with an even layer of boiled eggs grated on big slots

9.Spread mayonnaise on the surface:

10.Cover whole thing with an even layer of boiled beets grated on big slots:

11.And again cover it with mayonnaise

12. On desire you can cover with am layer of boiled egg yolks grates on small slot:

13.Let salad to rest at room temperature for 2 hours, after put it to the fridge. Prepare this salad in advance, it needs at least several hours of “rest” after assembled so layers can soak juices of each other and mayonnaise. I usually prepare this salad night before I am planning to serve it:

Bon Appetit!