Herring salad
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Herring salad (Finnish: sillisalaatti, Swedish: sillsallad, Norwegian: sildesalat) is a mixed salad consisting of cut and salted herring, beetroot, potato, onion, mayonnaise and whipped cream.
Finnish herring salad[edit]
Finnish herring salad is called rosolli and is part of the Finnish joulupöytä. The salad is made of cooked potatoes and carrots cut into small cubical pieces and served on a tray. It can also contain cucumber, apple, onion and herring. If the salad does not contain herring it is called beetroot salad. The salad can be eaten with a sauce made of whipped cream and vinegar.
The name "rosolli" comes from the Russian language. The original Russian word "rassol" meant a brine of pickled gherkins. The Swedish word sillsallad is thought to have inspired the word sinsalla which is used to refer to rosolli in Ostrobothnia.
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