Mimosa Salad
The Soviet New Year layered salad — tinned fish, potato, carrot, cheese and egg white under thin coats of mayonnaise, finished with grated yolk that looks like the yellow mimosa flowers it is named after.
Ingredients
Ingredients
- 400 g potatoes
- 2 medium carrots
- 5 eggs
- 250 g tinned fish in oil (saury, sardines or tuna), drained
- 1 small onion
- 200 g mayonnaise
- 80 g mild hard cheese, such as Gouda
- 3 sprigs dill
- to taste salt
Nutrition (estimated)
medium confidenceRecipe total: 2748 kcal · P 119.2g · C 96.6g · F 212.3g
Estimated from 8 of 9 ingredients
Approximate estimate, calculated from the ingredients.
Steps
Steps
- 1Boil the potatoes and carrots whole in their skins for 20–25 minutes, until tender, then cool and peel. Hard-boil the eggs for 10 minutes, cool them in cold water, peel and separate the whites from the yolks.
- 2Remove any large bones from the fish and mash it with a fork. Chop the onion finely, pour boiling water over it, leave for 1 minute and drain: this takes away its raw sharpness.
- 3Grate the potatoes, carrots, egg whites and cheese separately on the coarse side of a grater. Grate the yolks last, on the fine side.
- 4In a glass bowl or a 20 cm ring, layer the potatoes, salted lightly, then the fish with the onion, the carrots, the cheese and the egg whites, spreading a thin coat of mayonnaise over each layer. Spread it with the back of a spoon without pressing down: the salad should stay light and airy.
- 5Cover the top with the grated yolks: the yellow crumbs give the salad its mimosa look. Decorate with the dill sprigs.
- 6Chill for at least 4 hours, or overnight, so the layers settle and the mayonnaise soaks in.
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Questions and answers
How long does Mimosa Salad take to make?
About 55 minutes: 30 min prep and 25 min cooking.
What ingredients do you need for Mimosa Salad?
9 ingredients: potatoes, carrots, eggs, tinned fish in oil (saury, onion, mayonnaise, mild hard cheese, dill, salt.
How many servings does this Mimosa Salad recipe make?
8 servings. The servings buttons above the ingredients rescale every amount.
How many calories are in a serving of Mimosa Salad?
About 344 kcal, with 14.9 g protein, 12.1 g carbohydrate and 26.5 g fat. This is an estimate from the ingredients, not a lab analysis.
What cuisine is Mimosa Salad?
Mimosa Salad comes from Russian cuisine.
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