STEEMIT CULINARY CHALLENGE #4 : Shuba.

Hello Steemit Nation!

Today I will make something special for Steemit culinary challenge no 4! My ideea was to make Shuba Salad.

But before I start with the making of the recipe I must explain something...
first the word shuba in romanian means winter clothing, something similar in translation would be the winter clothing of people who live in the North Pole...so something little bit extreme.
My family comes originally from Russia, they run away because of the religious oppresion . The legend is that it was in that time a religious leader (priest at high rank) called Lipov. The țar saw other people from the Europe that they were different and wanted to impose this to all his people. He called Lipov and ordered him to tell all the people to cut their hair and barada (russian fonetic word for beard) .
Again here I must explain...all the people (most of them anyway) that were religious in that time they respected the old calendar not new ...and things like appearence too, more exact they wear a big beard(only maried folks) like Jesus Christ in the old times and women very long hair (close to the anckles).
Now Lipov tell the word of the țar (leader, emperor) to the people and he added something else...

If you want to keep your faith in God and not the țar, run!
And so they run to other countries and among them were my great-great- grandparents that arrived in Romania.
I say that this is a legend because this story was passed down from father to son or daughter and so on until I came to be, the history events were more evil.
Since I was a child I heard a lot of stories from my parents and grandparents and great-grandparents (yes they were alive) and among them this Shuba recipe. So please enjoy!

The ingredients are as follows:
Note:bring them to the boiling point, dont keep them to much there.

• Potatoes
• carrots
• Beetroot (Sfeclă Roșie in romanian languege)
• Onion, green
• Eggs
• Apple
• Pickled Olives
• salt
• marinated fish
• sunflower oil
• Pickled pepper (aditional ingredient added at the last step for taste and ornament)

First step is to clean the ingredients and them put them in a container with water and bring them to the boiling point.

Now the next step is to make the mayonnaise
First step for this is to take the boiled egg , take out the yolk and mix it with un-boiled egg and mustard and little bit sunflower oil and salt.

The oil you can add when you mix it with a mixer. You can try mixing manually if you want to build some muscles!

Ok, good we now have the mayonnaise! The next step is to cut into little slices the apple, and the boiled ingredients (potatoes, beetroot, carrot)


After this the ingredients will look like this:

In the photo we have our mayonnaise, the marinated fish, and all the boiled ingredients into tiny little pieces and of course some green onion.
Now you must create the layers!
For the first row or layer put the green onions and on top put little bit mayonnaise.

Then add the fish!

Put little bit of mayonnaise on top.

Fill all the spaces on top and you will have something like this!

If you have the same result as me then I will raise my glass for your health!

Ok now we add the tiny slices of the apple.

Now we add the pickled olives (no seeds inside).

For ornament we add the pickled pepper !If you read my blog in the past you might remember these peppers!

Yep the peppers were from my previous recipe and now are ready for consumption.
https://steemit.com/recipes/@cynetyc/romanian-pickle-recipe

And now we ornament with the olives, pepper, and egg white on top. You can do any ornanment or design that you like, I tried to do the Steemit logo with my pickled peppers!

And that's it Congratulations you made your shuba! Bon apetit!

Thank you very much for your visit to my blog. See you next time!