"Cheese Under a Fur Coat" Salad
A quick, wholesome salad from everyday ingredients. It's a bit reminiscent of the famous "Herring Under a Fur Coat," but zestier. You can use a mild cheese like a Russian-style one, or pick a bolder, spicier variety with a little bite.
Cooking method
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Step 1:
How do you make the "Cheese Under a Fur Coat" salad? Gather the ingredients.
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Step 2:
Cook and peel the beets. Grate them on the coarse side. I used ready-cooked beets.
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Step 3:
Grate the cheese on the coarse side too.
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Step 4:
Finely chop the walnuts.
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Step 5:
Wash, dry, and finely chop the dill. Press the garlic through a garlic press. Combine the mayonnaise, chopped dill, and garlic.
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Step 6:
Stir together.
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Step 7:
Lay the cheese in the bottom of a springform pan.
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Step 8:
Spread with the garlicky mayonnaise.
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Step 9:
Spread the grated beets on top.
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Step 10:
Spread with the remaining mayonnaise.
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Step 11:
Sprinkle with the walnuts.
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Step 12:
Let the salad rest in the fridge for 30 minutes.
- It's better to make your own mayonnaise — tastier and better for you. See some great homemade mayonnaise recipes here. You can also dress the salad with sour cream or plain yogurt instead of mayo, on their own or blended with mayonnaise in any ratio you like — that lightens the dish.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Beets - 40 kcal/100g
- Dried beets - 278 kcal/100g
- Boiled beets - 49 kcal/100g
- Walnuts - 650 kcal/100g
- Black walnut - 628 kcal/100g
- Persian walnut - 651 kcal/100g
- Walnut oil - 925 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
- Uglich cheese - 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
- Garlic - 143 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
