Salads · Finnish

Midsummer Salad

Name: Midsummer Salad
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Finnish
Ingredients: 5 eggs; 0.5 can pickled spiced herring 550 g/250 g each; 1 bag crispy little gem lettuce 2 pcs/200 g; 2 bunches (300 g) of radishes; 3 pickling cucumbers 400 g; 0.3333333333333333 pkt archipelago bread (saaristolaisleipä) 300 g each; 1 tbsp rapeseed oil; 0.5 dl fresh dill; 0.5 dl fresh chives; 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil; 1 tbsp mustard; 1 tbsp white wine vinegar; 1 tbsp liquid honey

Herring, eggs, crunchy vegetables, a mustardy dressing and archipelago bread croutons—that is everything you need for a Midsummer salad!

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Machine-translated, original language: Suomi.

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Method

1
Boil the eggs until soft-boiled, about 7 minutes. Allow to cool. Cut the archipelago bread into about 1 cm cubes. Fry the bread cubes in oil in a pan until crispy.
2
Cut the washed little gem lettuces into generous wedges and spread onto a serving platter. Cut the washed radishes into a few pieces. Halve the washed pickling cucumbers and cut into 0.5 cm slices. Spread over the lettuce. Drain the herring. Halve the eggs and arrange onto the salad with the herring.
3
Mix the dressing ingredients together. Drizzle the dressing over the salad and finish with the archipelago bread croutons. Garnish with chopped dill and chives.