Cod liver salad recipe - no one can resist

Did you know that during the Soviet Union the most ordinary jar with cod liver was a real delicacy - it was taken for great holidays, the most delicious and delicious dishes exhibited at the festive tables. And, it should be noted that at that time the quality of canned food was unbeatable - today's is very far away.

But do not think that modern canned food is so bad that it can ruin the taste of a wonderful salad. On the contrary, the 21st century craftsmen can prepare a salad from cod liver so masterly that the dishes of "Soviet" times are seriously losing. It is interesting that such canned food both in the century before and today is one of the most popular ingredients for salad: the cod liver is not only fabulously tasty and incredibly nutritious, but also has a positive effect on the human body.

In this regard, it should be noted that in the world there is much more than one recipe for cod liver salad. At different times there were many such recipes, but almost all of them were "pushed out" from the list of dishes of Russian traditional cuisine. Salads became more exotic and exquisite, including in their composition such products, which in Soviet times were inaccessible or even unknown to housewives. However, over time, everything returned to normal - and a delicious, using as the main ingredient liver cod salad with rice again becomes popular and beloved by many of our compatriots.

Canned cod liver is very tasty, but it has an unusual taste, which allows combining this product with many others and creating the most real masterpieces. The most important thing is that such salads do not require additional dressing, especially, mayonnaise, because they are fat and nourishing. However, this is a matter of taste, and every culinary expert can use any recipe of cod liver salad, which you will like only.

So, if you want to make a delicious classic salad prepared from cod liver with the addition of rice, then you can use the following recipe, for which you should take canned food (150 gr.), Onions (1 goal), cucumber - best pickled 2 pcs.). You will also need eggs (3 pieces), pre-cooked rice (300 grams), a little mayonnaise for refueling and for decorating chips and olives. To begin preparation of such salad it is necessary from kneading of a liver of a cod with a fork, scalding an onions boiling water is it is necessary that its specific taste spoiled the general taste scale of a salad. After that, the recipe for cod liver salad suggests the following actions: slicing marinated cucumbers with small cubes, chopping boiled eggs and dividing each olive into two halves.

When everything is ready, the ingredients can be carefully laid out in layers in a beautiful salad bowl, if necessary and if desired, promazyvaya each of them mayonnaise. In the beginning, go canned, then "straw" onion, cubes of pickled cucumber and boiled, chilled rice, after which comes the turn of the egg and the last layer of mayonnaise. The latter, as suggested by the recipe of salad from the cod liver, must be made in the form of a "mesh", so that each of these "cells" fit half of the olive.

However, the same dish can be prepared with completely different products - marinated cucumbers can be replaced with tomatoes, in addition to take potatoes and greens, and also to vary the recipe with cheese or apple. Only rice remains unchanged - without it, the salad loses half its taste qualities, and the cod liver itself is the basis of the salad, its main flavor note and, of course, the ingredient without which this dish could not have been born.