Fox Salad with Mushrooms

A gorgeous salad shaped like a fox—and it tastes as good as it looks! This "Fox" salad with mushrooms is a hit with kids and grown-ups alike, thanks to both its playful presentation and its flavor. If you're tired of the same old salads, this is a fun way to shake up your everyday family meals or your holiday spread.

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Composition / ingredients

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Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 20 % 3 g
Fats 60 % 9 g
Carbohydrates 20 % 3 g
106 kcal
GI: 100 / 0 / 0
  • Start by prepping the ingredients. First, scrub the potatoes and carrots under running water. Put them in a pot whole, cover with water, and bring to a boil over high heat. Once boiling, lower the heat and simmer the vegetables until tender. Drain, then spread them out on a large flat plate to cool—you can cut them into chunks to speed things up. Clean any forest debris off the mushrooms if needed, then rinse and pat them dry with paper towels. Any mushrooms work here, from oyster mushrooms and button mushrooms you can grab at any store to wild mushrooms you've foraged in season. You can use fresh or frozen mushrooms; just remember that many varieties need to be par-boiled first, and frozen mushrooms should be thawed ahead of time. Cut the mushrooms into small pieces. Peel the onion and dice it small. Lay the fish fillet on a cutting board and dice it small as well. Grate the cooled carrots and potatoes on the large holes of a box grater. Grate the hard cheese too, but on the medium or fine holes. Cut the olives into pieces (save three olive halves for the fox's nose and eyes). Set everything in separate bowls. Heat a skillet with vegetable oil over medium heat and add the onion. Sauté, stirring occasionally, until soft. Add the mushrooms and cook until done, 10–12 minutes. Now for the fun part—assembling and decorating the salad: spread a thin layer of mayonnaise over the bottom of a nice flat plate, top with the chopped herring, and pipe a crosshatch of mayonnaise; next, layer on the onion-mushroom mixture and add another crosshatch of mayonnaise; the third layer is the potatoes, topped with more mayonnaise; finish with a layer of carrots. Decorate by arranging the fox's features with the cheese and olives. The salad is done! Chill it in the refrigerator for at least an hour before serving.

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

  • Onion - 41  kcal/100g
  • 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
  • Forest mushrooms - 21  kcal/100g
  • Carrots - 33  kcal/100g
  • Dried carrots - 275  kcal/100g
  • Boiled carrots - 25  kcal/100g
  • Herring in vegetable oil - 301  kcal/100g
  • Herring in sour cream - 97  kcal/100g
  • Herring in tomato sauce - 159  kcal/100g
  • Hot smoked herring - 215  kcal/100g
  • Pickled herring - 192  kcal/100g
  • Fresh herring - 161  kcal/100g
  • Salted herring - 217  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
  • Olives - 115  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
  • Vegetable oil - 873  kcal/100g
  • Water - 0  kcal/100g

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