Canned mackerel salad with egg and cucumber

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make a salad of canned mackerel with egg and cucumber? Prepare the products. Choose mackerel from a trusted manufacturer, high-quality, it is better if it is without the addition of oil. My cucumbers are very young, small in size. You'll need one big one. Boil the eggs beforehand. You can make mayonnaise at home yourself.

2. Step 2:

   

   Open the jar of fish and drain all the liquid from it. Take out the fish and put it on a flat plate. If you come across large pieces with a large bone, then take it out and throw it away. Small bones are not terrible — they are so soft that they will not be felt. Mash the mackerel with a fork to make small pieces.

3. Step 3:

   

   Wash and dry the cucumbers. Cut off the tips. Cut the cucumbers into small cubes. There is another option to grate them on a grater, then the salad will turn out more tender, but it will let the juice out faster. In this case, it should be cooked right before serving.

4. Step 4:

   

   Hard-boil the eggs. How to cook hard-boiled eggs? So that the eggs do not crack when cooking, put them in cold water and put them to cook on a small fire. Boil the eggs for 9 minutes after boiling, then pour cold water and cool. From a sharp temperature drop, the shell will be better cleaned. Cut the peeled eggs into the same cubes as cucumbers. Or grate it if you've been grating a cucumber.

5. Step 5:

   

   Next, you can just mix all the products and the salad will be ready. I'll lay it out in layers using a serving ring. Put the mashed mackerel in the first layer. Tamp it with a special press or spoon. Brush the fish layer with mayonnaise.

7. Step 6:

   

   Next, lay out the sliced cucumbers. Also tamp them down and smear them with mayonnaise.

8. Step 7:

   

   Put the eggs in the last layer. And again a layer of mayonnaise.

9. Step 8:

   

   Carefully remove the ring from the salad. And prepare another portion. The number of products is calculated just for two servings.

10. Step 9:

    

    Garnish the finished salad with herbs and serve to the table. Bon appetit!