Fish contains many beneficial substances including polyunsaturated fatty acids. Even in canned form, it retains most of its valuable elements. Canned fish help out many housewives when you want to prepare a hearty and tasty snack for a family dinner or a festive table. Saury is among the cheapest canned goods. She has a tender meat, wholesome and nourishing. Salads from canned saury, despite the availability of ingredients and ease of preparation, are delicious and tasty enough to decorate the festive table with them.
Cooking Features
Even an inexperienced hostess can cook a delicious salad from canned saury. The main thing is to know a few subtleties.
- Saury can be canned in oil or in its own juice. For salads, any is suitable, unless the recipe states which canned items are to be used. The oil from the jar is usually not poured, and involve in the preparation of salad dressing.
- For most salads, preserved saury is kneaded with a fork. This medium-sized fish, coarse bones in it are rare, but if you have a rather coarse and large bone in your tin, you should remove it. Then the saury snack will be more tender.
- The composition of saury salad often includes potatoes, carrots, rice and eggs, as it goes well with these products. They must be cooled to room temperature before combining with other ingredients, otherwise the salad will spoil quickly. This rule applies to other products subjected to heat treatment.
- Saury goes well with fresh vegetables. They are desirable to add to the salad last. Having put the juice, they can make a snack watery. For the same reason, salads with fresh vegetables in the composition of salt and season with sauce, preferably shortly before serving them to the table.
- Puff salads, even if they contain fresh vegetables, are harvested 2-3 hours before the feast. In less time, the layers may not have time to soak in the sauce.
Salads from canned saury may have a similar composition, but they do not taste the same. Adding or replacing just one ingredient can affect the final result.
Mimosa salad from canned saury
Composition:
- canned saury (in oil) - 0, 25 kg;
- potatoes - 0, 3 kg;
- carrots - 0, 2 kg;
- onions - 100 g;
- chicken egg - 4 pcs .;
- mayonnaise, salt, greens - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Wash carrots and potatoes, boil them in uniform. Let the vegetables cool.
- Peel the boiled vegetables, rub separately.
- Free the onions from the husk, finely chop. Pour boiling water, after a couple of minutes, drain the water. Onions will cease to be bitter.
- Eggs boil hard boiled. Do not boil them for more than 10 minutes after boiling water. During long cooking, the yolk is covered with a bluish bloom, and it will be needed to decorate the salad.
- Cool the eggs by placing them under a stream of cold water. Peel off the shells, remove the yolks. Grind whites on a grater, chop the yolks with a knife. Spread the whites and yolks on separate plates.
- Open the tin can. Put the saury in a bowl, pour the oil into a separate container.
- Mash the fish with a fork, put it on a dish, forming a neat circle.
- Sprinkle the fish with onions, put the chopped potatoes on top, salt it, pepper, sprinkle with the oil that was in the can, spending about two thirds.
- Put the carrots, brush with mayonnaise.
- Put squirrels on carrots, brush with mayonnaise.
- Finely chop the greens, mix with the yolks, lay them on top.
- Sprinkle with remaining oil.
The color scheme of the top layer of lettuce resembles mimosa, and the name is connected with it. It is often prepared for the International Women's Day and the New Year.
Salad “Cruise” from canned saury with kiwi
Composition:
- canned saury - 0, 25 kg;
- chicken egg - 2 pcs .;
- processed cheese - 150 g;
- carrots - 150 g;
- potatoes - 0, 3 kg;
- onions - 100 g;
- Kiwi - 100 g;
- salt, pepper - to taste;
- mayonnaise - as required.
Method of preparation:
- Boil carrots and potatoes without peeling. After cooling, peel, chop on a grater.
- Put the cheese in the freezer for 20 minutes, then rub it, placing it in a separate plate.
- Cool-boiled eggs cool under running water, peel, rub.
- Peel the kiwi, cut it into circles.
- Peel the onions, finely chop, cover with hot water for a couple of minutes, squeeze.
- Put the saury in a bowl, mash with a fork, add a little oil from a can or mayonnaise.
- Place potatoes on the bottom of a salad bowl or round dish. Salt, pepper. Pour with canning oil or grease with mayonnaise.
- Put the saury on the potatoes, sprinkle it with onions.
- In the next layer, place the eggs, brush them with the sauce.
- Place carrots on eggs, cover with mayonnaise.
- Put the cheese on the top layer, put the kiwi mugs on it so that they completely cover the surface of the salad, as if forming another layer.
Salad prepared according to this recipe has a slightly unusual exotic taste, nevertheless very harmonious. He looks bright, optimistic. On the holiday table, such a snack will look decent.
Salad “Rain” of canned saury with beets
Composition:
- potatoes - 0.5 kg;
- carrots - 0, 2 kg;
- beets - 0, 2 kg;
- canned saury - 0, 25 kg;
- green onions - 100 g;
- mayonnaise - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Boil, peel, and grate carrots and potatoes.
- Cook the beets. Cool, peel, cut in half, cut two thin slices. Rub the remaining beets into a separate plate.
- Mash saury with a fork.
- Finely chop the green onions, leaving 1-2 feathers to decorate the snack.
- In a salad bowl, put half the potatoes, pour mayonnaise.
- Top with fish, sprinkle with onion, cover with sauce.
- Put the carrots, grease with mayonnaise.
- Place the remaining potatoes on top. It can be poured over juice or canning oil.
- Spread the beetroot spread around the perimeter.
- Make an umbrella out of beet slices, place them in the center.
- Cut onions into thin strips of about 1, 5 cm in length, spread out on a salad so that it resembles raindrops.
It is possible to make rain not from onions, but from fresh cucumber, by cutting it into thin straws. Despite the simple composition, the salad for this recipe turns out delicious. Its unusual design is unlikely to leave anyone indifferent.
Salad of canned saury with olives
Composition:
- saury, preserved in oil, - 0, 25 kg;
- rice - 160 g;
- pitted olives - 150 g;
- sweet pepper - 0, 3 kg;
- tomatoes - 0, 25 kg;
- pickled cucumbers (medium-sized) - 0, 25 kg;
- lemon juice - 40 ml;
- vegetable oil - 20 ml;
- salt, pepper - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Wash rice to clean water, boil it in salted water, wash it again. Leave in a colander to make it dry.
- Slice olives into large ringlets.
- Wash peppers, remove stalks and seeds. Pulp cut into small strips.
- Cut tomatoes into large cubes. You can use cherry tomatoes, they are cut into 4 parts.
- Slice gherkins.
- Put all ingredients in a large bowl.
- Drain the oil from the can into a separate container, add a spoonful of vegetable oil and lemon juice. Whisk with a whisk.
- Chop saury with a knife, add to the bowl with other products.
- Pour the prepared sauce, salt, pepper, mix.
It remains to shift the appetizer to a salad bowl, sprinkle with chopped greens and serve. Supporters of healthy eating will like the absence of mayonnaise in this salad.
Salad of canned saury and apple
Composition:
- canned saury - 0, 25 kg;
- apple - 0, 2 kg;
- potatoes - 0, 3 kg;
- onions - 100 g;
- chicken egg - 4 pcs .;
- mayonnaise - 150 ml.
Method of preparation:
- Boil the potatoes and eggs, peel, cut into cubes, put in a bowl.
- Cut the saury, add to the potatoes and eggs.
- Finely chop the onion, add to the rest of the ingredients.
- Apple peel, chop grated, mix with mayonnaise.
- Put the resulting sauce in a bowl, mix the salad.
The salad has a delicate pleasant taste, which, thanks to its inclusion in the composition of the apple, becomes unique. If the mayonnaise in the snack is replaced with sour cream, it will still be delicious.
How to decorate a salad of canned saury
Some recipes for salads from canned saury suggest a specific design option. If there are no instructions regarding the decoration of the snack in the recipe, you can decorate it according to your taste. Much depends on the culinary fan’s imagination, but several ready-made solutions can be offered.
- Many saury salads are layered. They can be assembled not only in a salad bowl, but also inside a detachable baking dish. By removing the hoop, you get a snack, shaped like a cake. It can be decorated by analogy with the popular dessert - flowers, but made not from cream, but from vegetables. To do this, they are cut into thin plates and laid in the form of a bud.
- Flowers can be made not only from vegetables, but also from eggs, which are often part of snacks from canned saury. They can be cut in a special way, giving a resemblance to a water lily, or spread out so that they resemble chamomile.
- Grinding olives, Bulgarian pepper and other products, a holiday symbol, date, and inscription can be depicted on the surface of the salad.
A snack in a salad bowl is made in a similar way.
Salads from canned saury are inexpensive, prepared quickly and easily. Snacks are so delicious that they are not ashamed to offer guests. None of them will not get up from the table hungry, as canned fish dishes go hearty.
