Simple Inexpensive Birthday Salad

Bright, layered, delicate, from the available products for the holiday! This simple and inexpensive salad can be made for a birthday, and for any celebration. Easy to cook and very tasty, it will become truly festive, you just need to decorate it a little. And he, in turn, will be the decoration of the table!
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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 13 % 4 g
Fats 66 % 21 g
Carbohydrates 22 % 7 g
233 kcal
GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 1 h
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    How to make a simple and inexpensive birthday salad? Prepare the products according to the list. Take the amount of green onions to taste. Mayonnaise can be prepared by yourself.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Pour clean root vegetables in a saucepan with water, bring to a boil. Cook the vegetables over moderate heat until tender. Check their readiness with a knife. If the root vegetables are soft and the knife easily pierces them, then the vegetables are ready. Remove the boiled potatoes and carrots from the water and cool completely. Peel the potatoes and grate them on a coarse grater.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Peel and chop the cooled carrots on a coarse grater.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Remove the liver of the cod from the jar, put it on a paper towel to drain the excess oil. Mash the liver with a fork into smaller pieces.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Hard-boil the eggs. How to cook hard-boiled eggs? Fill the eggs with water, bring to a boil, cook over moderate heat for 7-8 minutes from the moment of boiling. Pour the boiled eggs immediately with cold water so that they cool down and the shell is better cleaned. Divide the cooled eggs into whites and yolks. Grate the proteins on a coarse grater.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Cut the pickled cucumbers into thin strips. If desired, you can also grind them on a coarse grater.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    You can serve salad in a cooking ring or in a salad bowl suitable in size and shape. Put the grated potatoes on the bottom, smooth them well. Apply mayonnaise.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    Lay out the cod liver in the next layer. This layer does not need to be lubricated.

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9.

    Wash the green onions, dry them, chop them finely. Sprinkle the liver layer evenly with green onions.

  10. Step 10:

    Step 10.

    Then lay out the pickled cucumbers, smooth them out.

  11. Step 11:

    Step 11.

    Smear a layer of pickled cucumbers with mayonnaise.

  12. Step 12:

    Step 12.

    Lay out the grated carrots, smooth them out. Apply mayonnaise.

  13. Step 13:

    Step 13.

    Cover the carrot layer with grated egg whites, smear with mayonnaise.

  14. Step 14:

    Step 14.

    Finish the salad with egg yolks. Rub them on top of the salad. Put the salad in the refrigerator for a couple of hours to soak it.

  15. Step 15:

    Step 15.

    Before serving, decorate the salad as desired and to taste. Bon appetit!

Prepare salads only from fully chilled foods. Cooked from warm, the salad can quickly deteriorate.

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

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Green onion - 19   kcal/100g
  • Pickled cucumbers - 16   kcal/100g
  • Cod liver in oil - 613   kcal/100g

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