Mimosa salad
Mimosa salad is a festive salad of which the main ingredients are cheese, eggs, canned fish, onion, and mayonnaise. Mimosa salad got its name because of its resemblance to mimosa flowers scattered on the snow. The similarity is achieved by crumbling and scattering boiled egg yolk on the surface. The salad's popularity in the USSR has led to the emergence of a wide variety of recipes.
Preparation
A classic recipe is to layer ingredients in a bowl, with mayonnaise in between the layers. Typical ingredients include:- Canned fish, drained, de-boned, mashed. Common sorts are salmon, Pacific saury, mackerel, or trout;
- Hard cheese, finely crumbled, sprinkled;
- Boiled egg whites, coarsely grated, sprinkled. Sometimes the egg yolks, without the whites, are used. Sometimes entire hard boiled eggs are used.
- Boiled egg yolks, finely crumbled, sprinkled on top;
- Onion, finely chopped, sprinkled;
- Mayonnaise.
- Butter, coarsely grated, frozen, sprinkled;
- Boiled potatoes, coarsely grated, sprinkled;
- Boiled carrots, coarsely grated, sprinkled.