Unsweetened appetizers, resembling cakes, are relatively simple to prepare and assembled in layers, like sweet treats. Many fillings were invented, and today we have selected those that contain herring in their composition. The filling is very reminiscent of mincemeat, and in some cases it is. The original way of registration attracts with the appearance and convenience of portioned slicing.
Waffle cakes with herring - general principles of preparation
Snack cakes with herring are made from wafer cakes, which are easy to purchase at retailers. If you know how to cook such cakes yourself, use them.
The most convenient is the square or rectangular shape of the workpieces. The cakes formed from them are easier to cut into identical, neat pieces. In the absence of such forms of cakes, it is possible to assemble from round billets.
For waffle cakes, you can use both salted and smoked herring. Try to choose a large, well-fed fish. It is fatter, which means the snack will be tastier.
Forshmak is mainly prepared from herring, which is used to smear cakes, less often they are transferred to sliced herring. In addition to fish, preparations can be smeared with cheese and specially prepared mixtures of eggs, vegetables, mushrooms and cheese.
Waffle Cake with Herring - "Celebratory"
Ingredients:
packaging of square wafer cakes;
300 gr salted Atlantic herring;
three beets;
50 gr mayonnaise;
three boiled eggs;
large carrot.
Cooking method:
Boil beets and eggs in different containers in advance. Cool vegetables at room temperature, and pour eggs in cool water.
Preparing a herring. Separating the head, remove the insides, rinse the abdomen with water. After drying, we cut the carcass along the ridge, remove the skin and separate the fillet from the bones. Cutting into pieces, grind the herring in a meat grinder. To give the mass volume and taste, you can skip one processed cheese with the fish.
After peeling the eggs, be sure to wash them with water. Drying it, rub the eggs on a fine grater, adding a teaspoon of mayonnaise, mix thoroughly.
Also, using a fine grater, grind the boiled beets. Letting stand for up to five minutes, decant the whole allocated juice from the beets and mix it with a spoon of mayonnaise. Be sure to salt a little.
Put the first cake on the wide flat dish from the packaging and apply herring minced meat with a thick layer. We cover with the second workpiece, which is lubricated with beetroot. We lay the next cake and apply eggs mixed with mayonnaise on it. Laying the remaining wafer cakes, we alternate the layers in the same order, and on the top, we smear the brightest filling - beetroot.
After peeling the carrots from the carrots, we cut the root vegetables with long slices using a potato peeler. After laying in a bowl, pour boiling water with boiling water and let stand for a while. When the carrot strips become soft, wipe them with towels, decorate the cake. We spread on the surface and sides in the form of stripes of packing tape. From above, we form a bow from them, or, curling up with rolls, imitate flowers.
We remove the herring cake for a couple of hours for impregnation in the refrigerator.
Waffle cake with herring and fried mushrooms
Ingredients:
wafer cakes, square - 7 pieces;
salted herring fillet - 200 gr.;
three hundred grams of carrots and fresh champignons;
two onions;
mayonnaise - 200 gr. a pack;
two tablespoons of sunflower oil;
100 grams of fresh cheese, Dutch;
some fresh dill.
Cooking method:
We cook carrots, for a brighter color and rich taste, a pinch of sugar can be added to the water. Cool the finished carrots by substituting a saucepan with root vegetables under cold water. Peel the cooled carrots and cut into slices.
We clean part of the onion, cut into small slices. Fold in a blender bowl, grind, and then transfer to a bowl.
Cut the salted herring fillet and chop until smooth with a blender.
Combine herring with onion gruel and mix thoroughly. For lack of a blender, you can use a meat grinder for grinding. Twist the onion together with the salted fish on it twice.
We cut the mushrooms into small cubes, the remaining onions into small slices. Fry mushrooms in a small amount of oil. Once all the moisture has gone, add the onions and continue cooking until soft. We shift the mushrooms into a plate, cool.
Alternately, laying in different bowls, we chop the carrots and the mushrooms fried with onions in a blender. Cheese rubbed with large chips.
Having laid out on a flat dish, cover the first cake with herring mass. Abundantly lubricating with mayonnaise, we lay the subsequent cake, on which we evenly apply the mushroom mass and, like herring, lubricating it with mayonnaise. Then again we lay the wafer billet, evenly distribute and grease the carrots with mayonnaise. Repeat the layers, the top should lie cake decorated with carrot mass.
Generously sprinkle cheese with greased mayonnaise and decorate the cake with finely chopped greens.
We give the waffle cake to stand for at least an hour and a half in the cold.
Waffle cake with herring, herring caviar and cod liver
Ingredients:
rectangular wafer cakes - standard small packaging;
300 gr smoked herring;
a jar of cod liver;
herring or other inexpensive salted caviar - half a jar;
curd cheese in 200-gram trays - 3 pcs.;
frozen shrimp without shell;
young dill - a few twigs.
Cooking method:
Gutting herring, remove the skin from the carcass. After cutting into fillets, then cut into thin slices.
After laying the cod liver on a plate, knead the forks with a fork until a paste is obtained. Mix the liver with cheese from one tray.
In a separate bowl we spread the curd cheese from another tray and combine it with herring caviar.
We cover the cutting board with a sheet of foil and apply the curd cheese in a thin layer. Pre-lay the wafer cake on the foil sheet and mark its contours, the cheese will be applied without leaving them.
We put the first cake on the cheese, abundantly cover it with the cheese-liver mixture. On top, evenly spread the slices of fish.
On top of it we apply finely pure, without additives, curd cheese and set the next cake. This is followed by a plentiful layer of caviar mass, which is carefully leveled over the entire surface.
We lay one more cake, which is coated with a liver-cheese mass, and on top we again place pieces of herring.
Put a thin layer of pure cheese on the fish and put the final wafer cake. One piece must remain, we use it to decorate the cake.
Cover the sides and the surface of the waffle cake with the remaining curd cheese and place it in the refrigerator for two hours.
Boil the thawed shrimp for two minutes and leave to cool in a colander.
The remaining waffle cake is rubbed with a coarse grater and sprinkle with crumbs the surface of the cake already soaked. We make shrimps and sprigs of dill.
Waffle cake with herring, mushrooms and cream cheese
Ingredients:
four rectangular wafer cakes;
250 gr boiled carrots;
four tablespoons of medium-fat mayonnaise;
200 grams of salted herring fillet;
processed cheese;
one apple and a couple of onions;
two tablespoons of sunflower oil; and one - chopped dill;
300 grams of frozen mushrooms;
three boiled eggs.
Cooking method:
We clean the whole onion. Finely chop one head and fry with butter until soft. Without thawing, put mushrooms in a pan with onions, continue cooking over medium heat for seven minutes. In the end, pepper and salt to taste.
Cooling slightly, transfer the mushrooms from the frying pans to the blender bowl and interrupt at maximum speed until smooth.
Select from the herring filet all visible bones, cut into small slices.
Finely chopped peeled apple and one onion, chop one egg coarsely.
We put the pieces of apple, fish, onion and eggs in a blender, at high speeds we interrupt to a pasty mass. Season with pepper and salt.
We cook one more mass for spreading the cakes, we interrupt the boiled carrots with cream cheese, two tablespoons of mayonnaise and one egg with a blender. We also season it with salt and pepper.
We grease the first cake with a herring mass, placing it on top of the second, apply a layer of carrot mass on it. On the third cake we apply mushroom paste, and the last, fourth grease with mayonnaise.
Rub the last egg on the surface of the wafer cake through a fine grater, sprinkle with dill.
Waffle cake with herring, butter and red caviar
Ingredients:
rectangular packaging of wafer cakes;
large onion head;
50 gr white bread;
half a spoonful of mustard;
apple, weighing at least 160 gr.;
one and a half packs of "Farm" oil;
boiled egg;
400 gr. salty herring;
a third of a spoonful of soy concentrate;
A 140-gram jar of grainy red caviar.
Cooking method:
After cleaning the herring, we separate the fillet from the bones, remove small bones with tweezers.
Pour the crumb of white bread with milk for ten minutes.
Peel the onion in small slices. Putting in a plate, pour soy sauce.
We put in the blender bowl pieces of herring, mustard, slices of boiled eggs and onions, grind into a homogeneous mass.
Having laid out the contents of the bowl in a bowl, rub through a fine grater, peeled apple, mix.
Softened by thawing at room temperature, cut the butter and put it in the bowl. After adding slices of cream cheese and pickled onions, beat well.
Combine the creamy mass with herring, adding crushed bread crushed from milk, whisk thoroughly.
We put on all the cakes a thick layer of herring mass, leave one without filling. We connect the cakes, stacking them on a flat dish in a stack, thinly apply the herring mass to the upper cakes, and even the sides of the snack cake with it. Put the leftovers in a pastry bag.
We lay red caviar on the surface of the cake. Carefully, so as not to damage the eggs, level. At the edges, squeezing the herring mass from the pastry bag, we apply an arbitrary pattern.
Waffle cake with smoked herring and salmon
Ingredients:
two fresh cucumbers;
100 gr. mayonnaise;
300 gr soft cream cheese;
smoked herring (fillet) - 400 gr.;
half a glass of 35 percent cream;
one and a half tablespoons of Dijon mustard;
300 ml sour cream;
peeled shrimp - 100 gr.;
one and a half tablespoons of powdered sugar;
two hundred grams of smoked salmon;
a spoonful of spicy mustard;
bunch of lettuce leaves;
packing wafer cakes.
Cooking method:
Dijon and spicy mustard must be laid out in advance from the refrigerator to warm it up. We will prepare the sauce from mustard, but if it is cold, when the components are mixed, the mass will separate.
Cut the smoked herring fillet into small pieces. Putting in a blender bowl, add cream and mayonnaise, quickly interrupt. Putting in a bowl, temporarily set aside herring mass to the side.
Combine cream cheese with sour cream. Add a spoonful of fine salt and a little white pepper, mix well.
Mix both types of mustard. Pouring powdered sugar, beat, gradually introducing vegetable oil. After adding the sauce, put it in the refrigerator.
Cut salmon into thin slices, and cucumbers - oval slices.
Spread with herring mass the first wafer cake. Laying on a flat dish, lay the cucumbers on it.
Covering with the next, only slightly greased with herring oil billet, lay the salmon slices again. Sprinkle with mustard sauce, sprinkle with finely chopped lettuce.
Having covered the fish layer with a waffle billet, apply part of the remaining herring oil to it, align it with the same residues and the sides of the waffle cake.
Garnish with finely grated egg and boiled shrimp, soak in the cold for at least an hour and a half.
Waffle cakes with herring - cooking tricks and tips
You can not use a lot of mayonnaise or fry the components in a large amount of oil, the cakes will quickly soften and the effect will be lost. If sauteed mushrooms or vegetables contain a lot of fat, fold in a colander so that the excess oil comes off.
Do not cut the molded waffle cake with herring right away, let it brew in the cold for at least an hour and a half. The filling during this time soaks the cakes well and the cake is cut into neat pieces.
