Mimosa fish salad with carrots and cheese

Festive, layered, bright, classic, originally from the USSR! Mimosa fish salad with carrots and cheese will decorate any feast. This is one of the variants of the famous Soviet salad. Cheese is used here instead of potatoes. Try it, it's very tasty!
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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 48 % 16 g
Fats 48 % 16 g
Carbohydrates 3 % 1 g
218 kcal
GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 1 h 20 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    How to make Mimosa fish salad with carrots and cheese? It's very simple and even a teenager can handle a salad. First, prepare all the necessary ingredients according to the list. In addition to these products, you can include onions in the composition, which you need to chop, pre-marinate in apple cider vinegar to beat off the bitterness, and then rinse. Add onions or not, decide for yourself. It's delicious for me without it.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Remove the fish from the jar, shake off the juice, remove the bones and spine, if any, and mash with a fork. Fish should be 250 g in pure form, without liquid, so you may need 2 cans of canned food. You can take any canned food. More often it is pink salmon or saury, but tuna, sardine, etc. are also suitable .

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Boil the carrots in the peel until tender, cool, peel and grate on a fine grater. The main secret of this salad is that the ingredients are grated on a fine grater. So the salad turns out with an airy delicate texture. How to cook carrots? Wash it and put it in a saucepan with cold water. Cook the carrots after boiling over low heat for 20-25 minutes, depending on the size. Check readiness with a sharp knife — it should easily pierce it.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Also grate the cheese on a fine grater. Any cheese for this dish is suitable - Russian, Gouda and even non-salted mozzarella for pizza. The main thing is that it is delicious, high-quality, without milk fat substitutes.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Hard-boiled eggs, peel. Divide into whites and yolks and grate them separately on a fine grater. You can, of course, immediately rub all the ingredients into a cooking ring, forming a salad on the go. Here, as you like it better. I prefer to prepare all the products first, and then form a salad.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    You can just put all the ingredients in layers in a salad bowl, but I prefer to make a salad in a beautiful culinary ring so that all the layers are visible. Also, for more elegance, I divided some layers into two parts. Put half of the canned fish in the first layer and pour mayonnaise over it.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    Then spread half of the grated carrots and pour mayonnaise over them as well. If you want to add pickled onions, you can put them on carrots.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    Next, a layer of all grated proteins with mayonnaise.

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9.

    Sprinkle half of the grated cheese on top and pour over the mayonnaise.

  10. Step 10:

    Step 10.

    Then the second part of canned food.

  11. Step 11:

    Step 11.

    Then the remaining grated carrots.

  12. Step 12:

    Step 12.

    And the remaining cheese. On each layer, make a mesh of mayonnaise.

  13. Step 13:

    Step 13.

    Well, the last layer is all grated yolks. Put the salad in the refrigerator for 1 hour for impregnation. If you put it on for longer than an hour, tighten the mold with cling film so that the yolks do not curl.

  14. Step 14:

    Step 14.

    Remove the cooking ring before serving. Decorate the salad as desired. Enjoy your meal!

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

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.

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

  • 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
  • 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
  • Cheese "lo spalmino" - 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
  • 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
  • Canned pink salmon - 136   kcal/100g

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