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Selyodka Pod Shuboy (Layered Herring Salad)

Salt-cured herring becomes a lavish centerpiece when layered with apples and a sour cream—mayonnaise dressing in this beautiful composed salad. This recipe first appeared in our May 2011 issue, with the article Riga Revisited.
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SERVES 6–8

1 cup mayonnaise
1 cup sour cream
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
3 filets salted herring, rinsed and roughly chopped
1/2 small yellow onion, minced
2 medium peeled and boiled Yukon Gold potatoes, grated
3 medium boiled carrots, grated
6 hard-boiled eggs, whites and yolks separated, each passed through a fine strainer
1/2 Granny Smith apple, cored, peeled, and grated
2 medium boiled beets, peeled and grated
1/4 cup chopped fresh dill
Carrot rose, to garnish (optional)

Whisk together mayonnaise and sour cream in a small bowl and season with salt and pepper; set aside. Place herring in the bottom of a shallow 1 1/2-qt. oval dish, and top with 1/3 dressing. Sprinkle onions on top, then cover with grated potatoes. Top potatoes with carrots and 1/2 the remaining dressing. Combine half the sieved egg yolks and half the sieved whites in a small bowl, then spread over dressing. Top with apples, then beets. Spread remaining dressing over beets to cover. Create three even rows across top of salad with remaining egg yolks and three rows with remaining whites; fill in gaps with rows of dill. Garnish with a carrot rose, if desired.

Selyodka Pod Shuboy (Layered Herring Salad)

This article was first published in Saveur in Issue #138

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That's the way I like to make it: first of all, don't grate ingredients; your whole creation will resemble some mushy porridge - just chop everything in about 1/2 inch dice. Next, chop all the ingredients separately into bowls and mix it with the mayo (no sour cream please). Mix chopped herring with chopped marinated red onion. Then put potatoes on the plate first so they can soak up "juices" from the top layers. Then goes the layer of herring mixed with onion, then a layer of diced pickles, then the layer of peas and carrots (you can just prepare a 1-lbs. bag of that particular frozen mix), then the layer of chopped canned mushrooms and finally a layer of boiled chopped beets to make it all look pretty and festive. And yes, if you must, decorate the top with the grated hard-boiled egg - but I skip this step cause the egg tends to dry out pretty quick. Viola! The perfect, tasty calorie bomb.
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Hmmmm I dont remember sour cream ever going into this salad, we Russians only use Mayo :)
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