Salad “Herring under a fur coat” is simply a must-have on every housewife’s New Year’s table. Preparing this salad is already a New Year's tradition, almost like Olivier salad. It not only looks beautiful but also tastes very good. Each housewife has her own personal recipe for preparing this salad, as well as a secret ingredient or a special cooking technique. Today we will share with you the main secrets of how to cook “Herring under a fur coat! correctly.”In fact, the salad contains quite simple products: herring, potatoes, carrots, onions, beets, mayonnaise, spices: salt and pepper. There are also recipes with the addition of apples. But we will talk about the classic version of preparing this salad. The main ingredient in the salad, as the name suggests, is herring. For the salad, you can buy marinated whole fish, but in this case you will have to spend quite a lot of time cleaning out the bones. You can also buy herring in oil in a jar, but very often such fish will be too salty and fatty. It is best to buy lightly salted fillet; it is ideal for salad. Such lightly salted fillet will not stand out too much in the salad, but, on the contrary, will complement other ingredients with its taste. After we have chosen a delicious fish, we can prepare the vegetables for the salad. Potatoes, carrots and beets need to be boiled. The most important thing is not to overcook these vegetables. For example, if you overcook potatoes, they will crumble and appear like mush in the salad. But if you overcook the beets, they will lose their bright taste, and the salad will no longer be so colorful.  It is best to cook vegetables separately, because each vegetable has its own required cooking time. Vegetables should be boiled with their skins on so they retain their flavor. You should peel vegetables only after they have cooled down. The onion goes into the salad raw, but you can marinate it a little, then it will turn out softer and juicier. For marinating, use sunflower oil, lemon juice or vinegar, salt and pepper. Another little secret, add a little sugar to the onion, then the onion will taste pleasantly sweet. When everything is ready, you can start assembling the salad. It is best to use a large plate with a recess. Before you start assembling the salad, grease the plate with mayonnaise, this will ensure that the salad will not be dry. The bottom ball of lettuce is herring, then onions. We grease each ball with mayonnaise and sprinkle with black pepper. The third ball of salad is carrots. We grate it on a coarse grater and grease it with mayonnaise. The fourth ball is a potato. It is this ball that should be thoroughly greased with mayonnaise, because potatoes absorb it very well. Also don't forget to salt and pepper the potatoes on top....

New Year is coming very soon, which means it’s time to create a menu for the New Year’s table. Today we’ll talk about a simple and very tasty New Year’s dessert that your family and your guests will enjoy. Orange spiced cake is a traditional New Year's dessert, because in every piece of the cake you can feel the taste of this fabulous holiday, and the aroma is simply mesmerizing. This cupcake is very easy to prepare, and you don’t need a large amount of ingredients for this dessert. Another plus of this sweet is that it is not heavy and is perfect for a New Year's feast, because at night after an abundance of dishes for dessert, you no longer have enough strength for a heavy dessert.And so, to prepare an orange cake you will need: eggs, flour, sugar, sunflower oil, baking powder, orange and lemon zest, cinnamon and any other spices that you like. Cooking should begin with beating the eggs. A very important tip: do not beat the eggs too much, because if the whites are broken, the structure of the cake will not be the same as we need, and in general it will be difficult for the cake to rise. Beat eggs together with sugar. After you beat the eggs to the desired consistency, add sunflower oil and water to them. These ingredients will make our cake moist inside and more rich. And the very last step in preparing the batter for our orange cake is what makes it so special and flavorful. Spices are added to the dough at the very end. Take one orange and one lemon and grate the zest from them using a grater. You can grate it on the finest grater, or on a medium one, it’s whatever you like. If you want the inside of the cupcake to be visible, use a medium grater. Adding zest gives us not only an amazing aroma, but also the beautiful orange color of the cake itself. Also don’t forget to add spices: cinnamon and a little nutmeg are best. The main thing is not to overdo it with spices so that they do not overwhelm the light orange taste. You can serve the orange cake in several ways. Orange cake and melted chocolate go great together. You can cut the cake and pour melted chocolate over it. It will also be very tasty if you put a scoop of ice cream on a plate with a piece of kes. Or just sprinkle the cake with powdered sugar and serve. ...

One of the most popular and well-known to us from our childhood soups is meatball soup. Meatballs are meatballs made with minced meat and spices. Indeed, the soup we prepared at the kindergarten, school, home. This is not surprising because preparing soup is a quick, easy and with simple ingredients. Easy clear broth, soft boiled vegetables, and meatballs - all of this gives sweet taste, the taste of childhood. To prepare the soup with meatballs used: potatoes, carrots, onions, parsley root, minced meat, spices. Of course, there are a few additional ingredients, but it depends on Your taste. For example, the soup you can add pasta. It is best to use thin and short variety, then the soup is too thick, as in the case, if we add pasta to large size. You can still add rice, just not to get porridge instead of soup, enough to pour 3 tablespoons of rice. Also, to the soup with meatballs add mushrooms or tomatoes, this is how someone like.     Special attention should be paid namely to the meatballs, as they make the usual soup so unusual. Meatballs from minced meat. Meat for stuffing you can take any: pork, chicken, beef, Turkey - all these weights are ideal for preparing meatballs. Preparing the stuffing is quite simple: meat mince, add salt and pepper. To meatballs turned out to be more vkusnymi, to the stuffing, you can add half the onion, it is also possible to pass through a meat grinder. If You have time, can you give the meat to stand for an hour-the second, so it will absorb the smell and taste of onions and spices. Meatballs are quite simple: take a teaspoon of the stuffing and shape the meatballs. The size of the meatballs can be any, the main thing that they were the same, so we exclude that one meatball have time to boil and the other is not.     Soup start cooking as standard, cut vegetables put in a pan with water and put on boil. There is a small Council, still cold water, add a piece of butter, enough to be 20 grams. The butter will boil and give a very nice flavor to our soup. When potatoes are ready, you can send the soup our meatballs. For ten minutes or fifteen they are ready. At the end of cooking can add chopped fresh herbs, dill, for example.   ...

Pancakes - a well known dish that is so loved in our country. This dish is very nutritious as it is cooked from potatoes and fried in a large amount of oil, but it is so fond of both adults and children. In fact, to prepare this popular dishes use a fairly simple set of ingredients: potatoes, eggs, flour, onion and spices. Of course you can still use other ingredients, for example, the quotient, carrots, mayonnaise, here already everything depends on your taste.     For starters, you need to prepare potatoes as a main ingredient. Potatoes peeled and three on the meerschaum grater or grind in a blender. Then, add in the onion, it can be crushed with a blender. But, a little advice, if you chop the onions very finely with a knife, the taste will be much better and will not taste bitter. The second important step is the addition of eggs and flour. It is best to first whisk the eggs and then gradually add the flour, carefully mixing. Definitely need to follow to avoid kamocki of flour. A mixture of flour and eggs added to Certosa potatoes. Add the spices: salt, black pepper as well and add a little paprika and turmeric. Turmeric will give the pancakes a beautiful yellowish color. The consistency of the pancakes should be thick, but not too much, about applesauce. If you make the mass too thin, the pancakes will spread on the pan to absorb the oil and even after cooking will keep the shape.     Fry pancakes best in a pan with a thick bottom and a large amount of oil. After you put in the pan the pancakes, make the fire a little weaker, but not too much. It is not necessary to fry the pancakes on a very low heat, then how many pancakes will absorb too much oil. If you want to remove from the pancakes extra oil can after frying lay them on paper towels and then top with the wet wipes. This Lifehacker will help You make the pancakes a little less caloric.     Traditionally, pancakes are eaten with sour cream. But feeding from you and other sauces: garlic, mushroom or tomato. If you want to surprise your guests with pancakes, and then you can put them in earthen jars, to fill with sour cream with herbs and spices and jam and cheese and put bake in the oven for 10-15 minutes, then this simple dish will be more interesting, flavorful and delicious.   ...