Selyodka Pod Shuboy (Dressed Herring) - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 salt herring fillets (Schmaltz)
1 cup milk
1 small red onion, cut into thin rings
5 potatoes
4 carrots
3 beets
4 eggs
2 cups mayonnaise

Preparation

Place potatoes, carrots, and beets into a medium pot and boil until all vegetables are tender. Boil eggs hard. Cool all vegetables and eggs.
Soak the herrings in milk, covered, in the refrigerator for 2 hours. Rinse and pat dry with paper towels. Cut the fillets into 1 inch pieces.
Arrange the pieces on a large dish side by side. Put herring meat evenly on the bottom. Evenly place rings of onion on the herring. Using a rubber spatula, spread mayonnaise evenly in a thin layer.
Mince the potatoes and make the next layer of it. Again spread the mayonnaise over the potatoes.
Then mince the carrot and spread over the mayonnaise.
Mince 3 of the eggs and spread in the next layer, add mayonnaise and then the beets. Spread mayonnaise on the beets and mince and spread 1 egg on it to make the dish beautiful.
This salad must look like a cake.
Put the dish in the fridge for an hour.