Mimosa salad

Mimosa salad
Type	Salad
Course	Zakuski
Region or state	Soviet Union
Associated cuisine	Russia
Main ingredients	Canned fish, boiled eggs, grated cheese, onion, mayonnaise
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Mimosa salad (Russian: салат мимоза) is a festive salad, of which the main ingredients are cheese, eggs, canned fish, onion, and mayonnaise. Mimosa salad got its name because of its resemblance to mimosa flowers scattered on the snow. The similarity is achieved by crumbling and scattering boiled egg yolk on the surface. The salad's popularity in the USSR (and nowadays in the post-Soviet states) has led to the emergence of a wide variety of recipes.^[1]^[2]

Preparation

A classic recipe is to layer ingredients, in a bowl, with mayonnaise in between the layers. Typical ingredients include:

Canned fish, drained, de-boned, mashed. Common sorts are salmon, pacific saury, mackerel, or trout;^[3]
Hard cheese, finely crumbled, sprinkled;
Boiled egg whites, coarsely grated, sprinkled. Sometimes the egg yolks, without the whites, are used.^[3] Sometimes entire hard boiled eggs are used.^[4]
Boiled egg yolks, finely crumbled, sprinkled on top;
Onion, finely chopped, sprinkled;
Mayonnaise.

Further ingredients may include:

Butter, coarsely grated, frozen, sprinkled;
Boiled potatoes, coarsely grated, sprinkled;^[3]
Boiled carrots, coarsely grated, sprinkled.

Mimosa salad, traditional decoration
Mimosa salad, decorated with dill
The "mimosa"
(Silver Wattle (Acacia dealbata])),
symbol of Women's day in Russia