Salad Herring in shuba (Russian)

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Herring in brine need to be deboned
Pickled herring needs soaking in cold water for at least 4 hours
Finished result should look like a cake

Ingredients

  • 4 medium carrots, peeled
  • 3 medium, well washed beets
  • 3 medium potatoes, peeled
  • 1 small red onion finely chopped
  • 4 hard boiled eggs
  • 1 1/2 c mayonnaise
  • 600 ml herring filets in brine or pickled herring
  • fresh dill and parsley

Preparation

Step 1

Boil carrots,beets and potatoes until tender
Hard boil eggs
cut herring in very small pieces and set aside
Grate potatoes, carrots and beets
Layer 1/2 of potatoes, mayonnaise, carrots, mayonnaise and beets and onion
Spread the herring and cover with more layers.
Lay a layer of 3 hard boiled eggs, sliced, between last layer of mayonnaise, before beets.
Cover the whole thing with last egg and parsley and dill.