Salad recipes

Russian beet and potato salad with cooked beets, potatoes, green peas, carrots, hard-boiled egg, and scallions in a tangy yogurt and cider vinegar dressing. A lighter take on classic vinegret.

Haring salade, a traditional Dutch marinated herring salad with beets, potatoes, apples, and dill cream dressing. A tangy, no-cook Northern European classic.

Norwegian meat salad with julienned lamb or veal and ham in a creamy vinaigrette, garnished with sliced egg and pickled beet. A hearty Scandinavian main dish salad.

Ham and beet salad with matchstick beets, diced apple, chopped hard-boiled eggs, and ham tossed in a simple oil and vinegar dressing, served on a bed of lettuce.

Hamburg-style fish salad: poached fish cubes tossed with hard-cooked egg, pickles, and capers in a lemony mustard-mayo sauce. Chilled German salad with beet and egg garnish.

Baltic-style beet and potato salad with herring, dill pickles, carrots, and a creamy sour cream-mayonnaise-mustard dressing. A hearty Estonian kringel salad that improves overnight in the fridge.

Traditional Swedish sillsallad with chopped herring, beets, potatoes, apple, and dill in an egg yolk dressing, served with a pink beet-sour cream sauce. A Scandinavian holiday classic.

Hamburg-style fish salad with poached white fish, hard-cooked eggs, dill pickles, and capers in a tangy mustard-mayonnaise-sour cream sauce. A classic North German cold lunch.

Hamburger fischsalat is a German-style fish salad with poached white fish, hard-cooked eggs, dill pickles, and capers in a mustard-lemon sour cream dressing. Chilled and garnished with beet slices.