Herring Under Fur Coat (Herring Salad) Recipe
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.
Ingredients:
- 1 big or 2 small whole herrings (pickled with a salt)
- 1 big potato
- 3-4 middle size carrots
- 3 middle size beets
- Bunch of green onions
- Mayonnaise
How to make, step-by-step:
- Prepare ingredients: boil carrots, potatoes and beets for salad, let them cool till room temperature and and skin; fillet salted herrings:
Herring Under Fur Coat (Herring Salad) Recipe: Step 1
- Take big flat plate, 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):
Herring Under Fur Coat (Herring Salad) Recipe: Step 2
- Dress layer of grated potato with mayonnaise (yes, you need liquid mayo which is easy to pour):
Herring Under Fur Coat (Herring Salad) Recipe: Step 3
- Dice herring fillets (and pick bones if you see any) and layer it above potato:
Herring Under Fur Coat (Herring Salad) Recipe: Step 4
- Add chopped green onions as third layer and dress with mayonnaise:
Herring Under Fur Coat (Herring Salad) Recipe: Step 5
- Cover whole thing with an even layer of boiled carrots grated on big slots, use your hands to form the shape:
Herring Under Fur Coat (Herring Salad) Recipe: Step 6
- Spread mayonnaise on the surface:
Herring Under Fur Coat (Herring Salad) Recipe: Step 7
- Cover whole thing with an even layer of boiled beets grated on big slots:
Herring Under Fur Coat (Herring Salad) Recipe: Step 8
- And again cover it with mayonnaise:
Herring Under Fur Coat (Herring Salad) Recipe: Step 9
- 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:
Herring Under Fur Coat (Herring Salad) Recipe: Step 10
- Herring Under Fur Coat or Seledka pod Shuboj (how it is called in Russian) is ready to be served:
Herring Under Fur Coat (Herring Salad) Recipe
Bon Appetit!
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Filleting the herring is really a lot of unneeded work. You can use pickeled herring, even from a jar. It’s not as good, but readily available, and straight salted herring might be a bit much for many American palets.
What this recepie above also does not do, is garnish the salad with slices of hard boiled egg and sprigs of fresh dill. The contrast with purble is quite stunning.
Traditionally I prepare this salad in 9″ round pie plates or a large pyrex oblong pan. this is necessary if you are going to transport the salad.
Dennis, which brand of pickled herring in the jar/pallet you use? I was not able to find a proper one.
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One of my favorites. I love this stuff! I always eat it when it’s made, but never knew how to make it. Thanks!
You are welcome
I’m making this salad right now for my boyfriend but I’m not sure if i should cover the salad or when to cover it. So far so good. I can’t wait to eat it thanx for posting this great dish
You don’t need to cover it, just put to the fridge for several hours after it is assembled, so it can settle down. Hope you will like it!
You can replace green onion here with just onion. It goes great with the herring (even raw, but if you don’t like the taste, you coul cut onions first, put them in vinegar and leave to marinate while you cut other ingredients). And boiled eggs are essential ^^.
Yep, just onion will work fine here too, raw or marinated.
I don’t agree about eggs, they are nice for decoration on top, but then they get dried very fast if salad is stored more than 1 day in a fridge… I don’t like that. But then, I guess everybody is free to improvise, so feel free to use eggs when you cook this salad.