Homemade herring salad

Salads with herring are very popular among the people. We offer you a very simple to prepare, but very tasty herring salad. You can serve a salad prepared according to this recipe in tomato baskets, which makes homemade herring salad even tastier.

Ingredients

• Herring (fillet) - 1 pc.
• Potatoes - 4 pcs.
• Eggs - 3 pcs.
• Onion - 1 pc.
• Mayonnaise - 200 g
• Ground black pepper - 0.5 tsp
• fresh tomatoes (for serving, optional)

Directions

1. We put three eggs in a saucepan, pour cold water, bring to a boil and cook over low heat with a constant boil for 10 minutes. We put the finished eggs in cold running water.
2. We put four potatoes in a saucepan, pour cold water, bring to a boil and cook under a lid over low heat with a constant boil until fully cooked.
3. Fillet of one herring, in the event that the herring is salty, soak in milk.
4. Peel the cooked potatoes and cut into cubes.
5. Peel one onion, wash and cut into cubes. We put in a bowl.
6. We take out the herring fillet from the milk, wash it with cold water, dry it with a paper towel, cut into cubes, send it to a bowl with onions and potatoes.
7. We clean the eggs from the shell and cut into cubes. We send it to the bowl.
8. Add 0.5 teaspoon of ground black pepper and 200 grams of mayonnaise. We mix everything well.
9. Salad with herring, potatoes, eggs and onions is ready. It can be put in a salad bowl and served at the table. This herring salad is very tasty, despite the fact that it consists of a small amount of ingredients.
10. We will serve homemade herring salad in tomato baskets. Let's get the baskets ready. Cut the slices from both sides of the tomato, leaving about one centimeter - this will be the handle of the basket.
11. Carefully, using a sharp knife and a spoon, remove the pulp from the tomato. Baskets of tomatoes are ready.
12. We fill the baskets with salad, put them on a dish, decorate with herbs and serve a very tasty salad with herring in tomato baskets to the table.
13. In such baskets of tomatoes, you can serve any other salad of your choice.