Salads on the festive table - a special theme, there are a lot of popular recipes, one of which is a salad "Sunflower" , there are several options.
How to prepare salad "Sunflower" with cucumber and liver cod?
Ingredients:
- canned cod liver - 1-2 cans;
- potatoes - 4 pcs .;
- cucumbers salted or pickled - 2-3 pcs .;
- eggs of chicken - 4 pcs .;
- green onion;
- quality thick mayonnaise in the package;
- dark olives without pits;
- sausage cheese.
Preparation
Boil the potatoes "in a uniform", cool, clean and squeeze it on a large grater, and soak cucumbers. Eggs boil hard, cool in cold water, clean and carefully separate yolks from proteins.
Protein separately, we rub it on a large grater, and the yolk - on a fine grater. Liver the cod with a fork. Let's mix the cod liver with the chopped green onions.
We spread the salad on the serving dish with layers. First - grated potatoes. Cut off the tip of the packet with mayonnaise and make a "grid", on top - grated cucumber. The next layer is the cod liver with green onions. From above - again a thin "grid" of mayonnaise. Next - grated protein, and again mayonnaise, this time-is painful. Gently spread the mayonnaise on the surface of the layer with a spoon or spatula. Sprinkle with grated yolk. From above lay olives, cut in half along the barrels upwards - this is like a capsule of sunflower with seeds.
Usually "petals of sunflower" are made from chips by laying out around the circle dishes around the salad. We remember that chips are not useful and potatoes in the salad are already present. But there is a way out: we will replace the chips with slices of sausage cheese. Although sausage cheese can not be considered a particularly useful product, but it clearly wins compared to chips. We cut thin circles or ovalchiki from sausage cheese and spread around the salad. When we move a portion of a salad from a dish to a serving plate, you can "hook" a piece of cheese to the salad.
It will not be superfluous to lay a layer of grated cooked carrots over a layer of grated potatoes (it needs to be cooked together with potatoes, cleaned and grated).
You can also lay a layer of ground onion-mushroom mixture. Onion should be chopped and roasted separately, then add chopped mushrooms, lightly fry and put out for 15 minutes (oyster mushrooms can be used raw, so they are even more useful). Or you can make a layer of crushed marinated mushrooms without onions.
Instead of potatoes (the first layer) you can use cooked rice, better - not too crumbly. To salad "Sunflower" we serve light wine or brandy.