Soviet Olivier Salad

Salad "Olivier" - recipe with photo, salad
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Cooking Time:
1 hour
Recipe Yield:
1,5 kg
Difficulty:
Simple recipe

Olivier salad - a recipe for the Soviet version of the salad with the same name - this is probably the most popular salad that was then prepared for the New Year. This is not the Olivier salad that is known all over the world, but it is very tasty. Initially, boiled beef or veal was used instead of sausage in Olivier salad, so the taste of the salad becomes more saturated, and the broth can be used after boiling. Also, some housewives add boiled carrots to the salad, but this is optional. Usually, canned green peas were added to the salad, but this is only because in the days of the Soviet Union it was very difficult to get frozen green peas, one might even say impossible. Nowadays, it is very easy, you can even freeze green peas yourself. With fresh green peas, Olivier salad turns out to be much tastier, fresher and more pleasant.

Recipe Ingredients

Cooking Recipe

For the Olivier salad recipe, the main thing is that all the ingredients are cut into approximately the same size. You can use beef in the salad - then you need to boil it first, and then cut it, but it's easier to use boiled sausage. Peel the sausage and cut into small cubes - the smaller the cubes, the more uniform the taste of the salad will be.

Pour the eggs with cold water so that it only covers them, and put on medium heat. When the water boils, boil the eggs for 8-10 minutes, and then pour cold water. The eggs must be hard boiled. Peel the boiled eggs and chop finely.

Potatoes for Olivier salad are best chosen not crumbly, purple potatoes are good. Loose white potatoes can be easily boiled and, accordingly, it will not be possible to beautifully cut into cubes. Wash the potatoes, add water and boil them in a peel until cooked. After allowing the potatoes to cool, peel and cut them into small cubes as well as sausages.

You can take any greens for Olivier salad, before chopped onions were added instead of greens, now you can replace onions with green. You can also use parsley, dill, cilantro, and even, if you want, green basil. Instead of fresh greens, you can add frozen greens to Olivier salad, but first you need it to melt. From frozen greens, the taste of the salad will not deteriorate.

Cucumbers for Olivier salad can be taken salted or pickled, and then adjust the salad with salt. In pickles there is one nuisance – they have a lot of liquid, even during cutting, it flows out, and this is not very pleasant. So that the cucumber pickle does not spoil the taste of the salad, they must be squeezed out of excess fluid after cutting. Salad cucumbers need to be cut in the same way as potatoes and sausage – in a small cube.

Well, all the ingredients are prepared, beautifully cut, now you need to add green peas to them. You can cook Olivier salad classically using canned green peas, but fresh-frozen peas will add a lot more flavor, aroma and rich summer green Olivier salad. Fresh peas are denser, but frozen peas, after thawing, become soft from the inside, while keeping their shape well, and again, it is fresh and contains vitamins that are very necessary in winter. Mix all the prepared foods, salt, pepper, add mayonnaise and put the Olivier salad in the refrigerator at least not for a long time, so that all the ingredients combine in one taste, and then serve.