Fish salad Mimosa with carrots and cheese

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 1 hr 20 mins

1. STEP 1

   

   How to make Mimosa fish salad with carrots and cheese? It's very simple and even a teenager can handle the salad. To begin, prepare all the necessary ingredients according to the list. In addition to the indicated products, you can include onions, which need to be chopped, pre-marinated in apple cider vinegar to remove the bitterness, and then rinsed. Decide for yourself whether to add onions or not. It tastes good to me even without it.

2. STEP 2

   

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

3. STEP 3

   

   Boil the carrots in their skins 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. This gives the salad an airy, delicate texture. How to cook carrots? Wash it and put it in a pan 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 pierce it easily.

4. STEP 4

   

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

5. STEP 5

   

   Hard boil the eggs, peel them. Divide the whites and yolks and grate them separately on a fine grater. You can, of course, immediately grate all the ingredients into the cooking ring, forming a salad on the go. It's just the way you like it. I prefer to prepare all the ingredients first and then form the salad.

6. STEP 6

   

   You can simply layer all the ingredients in a salad bowl, but I prefer to make the salad in a nice cooking ring so that all the layers are visible. Also, for greater elegance, I divided some of the layers into two parts. Place half of the canned fish as the first layer and pour over mayonnaise.

7. STEP 7

   

   Then spread half of the grated carrots and also pour in mayonnaise. If you want to add pickled onions, you can place them on top of the carrots.

8. STEP 8

   

   Next is a layer of all grated proteins with mayonnaise.

9. STEP 9

   

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

10. STEP 10

    

    Next is the second part of canned food.

11. STEP 11

    

    Then the remaining grated carrots.

12. STEP 12

    

    And the remaining cheese. Make a mesh of mayonnaise on each layer.

13. STEP 13

    

    Well, the last layer is all the grated yolks. Place the salad in the refrigerator for 1 hour to soak. If you leave for longer than an hour, cover the pan with cling film to prevent the yolks from scorching.

14. STEP 14

    

    Remove the cooking ring before serving. Decorate the salad as desired. Bon appetit!

Comments on the recipe

NATALIA ❄️

17.12.2023

4.7

One of my favorite salads for the New Year! 🎄I decided to decorate it in my own way, since this year is the year of the Rabbit! ❄️🥕🐇

Elena

17.12.2023

4.6

I recently registered on this site, looked through various recipes, saw the Mimosa salad, I haven’t cooked it for a long time, I remembered how Mimosa was popular in every family in the 70s, it inspired nostalgia, I decided to cook it because I really wanted to)). I prepared it with great love - this was noted in my family). Isn’t it a miracle, the yolks that decorate the salad look like small Acacia flowers), and the sprigs of dill resemble its leaves. “I prepared Mimosa like this: canned pink salmon - I try to buy one made on a floating base from fresh raw materials (the number “P08” should be on the jar) , into canned fish, peeled and pitted, I pour the juice from the jar (strained through a strainer), mash with a fork, then add capers (finely chopped with a knife and fresh dill) to the mashed fish pulp, which produces a more noble taste. Now the layers of salad (I don’t grate anything in advance, I put it directly on a serving dish (this makes the salad fluffier): 1. Grate the whites on a fine grater. 2. Mayonnaise. 3. Fish layer with capers and dill. 4. Onions (I scald them in advance boiling water, cool) 5) Frozen butter, rub on a fine grater. 6) Cheese, grated on a fine grater. 7) Boiled carrots, grated on a fine grater. 8. Mayonnaise. 9. Yolks. 10. Dill and capers (garnish). I put it in the refrigerator for 2 hours, it had time to soak in.

Lesya

17.12.2023

4.6

Mimosa fish salad with carrots and cheese I’ve been preparing it for several years using this recipe, it’s very easy to prepare, and most importantly tender and tasty! A worthy decoration for a holiday table! This time I made a New Year's version in the form of a watch. Thank you so much for this recipe!