Mimosa salad with potatoes and canned classic

Famous, popular, simple, from available products! Mimosa with potatoes and canned food is a classic version of a salad that has not lost popularity for many years. Delicate, balanced taste, availability of ingredients are the advantages that make it desirable for many. For a family dinner and a holiday!
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Composition / ingredients

Servings:
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Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 29 % 9 g
Fats 48 % 15 g
Carbohydrates 23 % 7 g
193 kcal
GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 1 h
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    How to make a classic Mimosa salad with potatoes and canned food? Prepare the necessary products. Any canned food will do: sardine, saury, mackerel both in oil and in its own juice.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Pre-boil potatoes and carrots in boiling water until tender. Check the readiness of vegetables with a knife. If the knife freely pierces the vegetable, then it is ready. Remove the boiled vegetables from the water and cool completely. Peel the potatoes and grate them on a coarse grater.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Peel and chop the carrots on a medium or fine grater.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Put the canned fish in a suitable-sized bowl. Mash the fish with a fork. I have canned food with my own juice. At the same time, I add the liquid to the fish, and the salad turns out more juicy. If desired, the liquid can not be used.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    You can take the cheese that you like more: hard, semi-hard or melted. Grate the cheese on a fine grater.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Boil hard-boiled eggs. How to cook hard-boiled eggs? Fill the eggs with water, bring to a boil. Cook the eggs over moderate heat for 7-8 minutes from the moment of boiling. Put the boiled eggs in cold water to cool them down. From the temperature drop, the eggshell is better cleaned. Peel the cooled eggs, separate the whites from the yolks. Grind the proteins on a fine grater.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    Salad assembly can be done in a serving ring. Place it on a plate. Put the grated potatoes in the first layer, smooth them out. If necessary, this layer can be slightly salted.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    Brush the potato layer with mayonnaise on top.

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9.

    Then lay out the grated carrots. Smooth the carrot layer with a spoon. Pour over the mayonnaise.

  10. Step 10:

    Step 10.

    The next layer is grated cheese. And mayonnaise again.

  11. Step 11:

    Step 11.

    Lay out the canned fish, smooth it out.

  12. Step 12:

    Step 12.

    Smear the fish layer with a little mayonnaise.

  13. Step 13:

    Step 13.

    Grate the egg yolks on a fine grater over the canned food. Leave some yolks to decorate the salad on top.

  14. Step 14:

    Step 14.

    Lay out the egg whites evenly with the last layer. Brush the salad with mayonnaise on top. Put the salad in the refrigerator for 2 hours to soak it.

  15. Step 15:

    Step 15.

    Wash the dill, dry it well, chop it finely.

  16. Step 16:

    Step 16.

    Before serving, decorate the salad on top as desired and to taste, using chopped greens and the remaining egg yolks, grated on a fine grater. Bon appetit!

Prepare salads only from fully chilled foods. Cooked from warm, the salad can quickly deteriorate.

It is better to prepare mayonnaise yourself. It will be tastier and healthier. See here interesting recipes for homemade mayonnaise.
Also, as a dressing, you can use not only mayonnaise, but also sour cream or natural yogurt. They can be taken separately or mixed with mayonnaise in any proportion to your taste - this will reduce the calorie content of the dish.

Shake the can before buying. The more liquid there is in it, the smaller the fish.

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Ripe potatoes - 80   kcal/100g
  • Baked potatoes - 70   kcal/100g
  • Mashed potatoes - 380   kcal/100g
  • Boiled potatoes - 82   kcal/100g
  • Potatoes in uniform - 74   kcal/100g
  • Fried potatoes - 192   kcal/100g
  • Chicken egg - 157   kcal/100g
  • Egg white - 45   kcal/100g
  • Egg powder - 542   kcal/100g
  • Egg yolk - 352   kcal/100g
  • Ostrich egg - 118   kcal/100g
  • Carrots - 33   kcal/100g
  • Dried carrots - 275   kcal/100g
  • Boiled carrots - 25   kcal/100g
  • Dutch cheese - 352   kcal/100g
  • Swiss cheese - 335   kcal/100g
  • Russian cheese - 366   kcal/100g
  • Kostroma cheese - 345   kcal/100g
  • Yaroslavsky cheese - 361   kcal/100g
  • Altai cheese 50% fat content - 356   kcal/100g
  • Soviet cheese - 400   kcal/100g
  • Cheese "steppe" - 362   kcal/100g
  • Cheese "uglichsky" - 347   kcal/100g
  • Poshekhonsky cheese - 350   kcal/100g
  • Lambert cheese - 377   kcal/100g
  • Appnzeller cheese with 50% fat content - 400   kcal/100g
  • Chester cheese with 50% fat content - 363   kcal/100g
  • Edamer cheese with 40% fat content - 340   kcal/100g
  • Cheese with mushrooms of 50% fat content - 395   kcal/100g
  • Emmental cheese with 45% fat content - 420   kcal/100g
  • Gouda cheese with 45% fat content - 356   kcal/100g
  • Aiadeus cheese - 364   kcal/100g
  • Dom blanc cheese (semi-hard) - 360   kcal/100g
  • Lo spalmino cheese - 61   kcal/100g
  • Cheese "etorki" (sheep, hard) - 401   kcal/100g
  • White cheese - 100   kcal/100g
  • Fat yellow cheese - 260   kcal/100g
  • Altai cheese - 355   kcal/100g
  • Kaunas cheese - 355   kcal/100g
  • Latvian cheese - 316   kcal/100g
  • Limburger cheese - 327   kcal/100g
  • Lithuanian cheese - 250   kcal/100g
  • Lake cheese - 350   kcal/100g
  • Gruyere cheese - 396   kcal/100g
  • Dill greens - 38   kcal/100g
  • Salad mayonnaise of 50% fat content - 502   kcal/100g
  • Light mayonnaise - 260   kcal/100g
  • Provencal Mayonnaise - 624   kcal/100g
  • Provencal mayonnaise - 627   kcal/100g
  • Table mayonnaise - 627   kcal/100g
  • Saury blanched in oil - 283   kcal/100g
  • Atlantic sardine with added oil - 238   kcal/100g
  • Sardine in oil - 221   kcal/100g
  • Sardine in tomato sauce - 162   kcal/100g
  • Mackerel in oil - 278   kcal/100g
  • Sprat in tomato sauce - 154   kcal/100g

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