Olivier salad is an honorable and familiar dish on the New Year's table. There are many variations on how this traditional New Year's salad is prepared. Below is a recipe for Soviet-style Olivier salad.
Ingredients for making Olivier salad:
- 2-3 medium-sized potatoes;
- 1 medium carrot (or 2-3 small ones);
- 5 eggs;
- 550-570 g of pork tongue;
- 300 g of canned green peas;
- 2 cucumbers (better than salted);
- 100 ml of mayonnaise;
- a teaspoon of salt.
Cooking Olivier salad according to the Soviet recipe:
1. First you need to boil the vegetables in their uniforms, as well as eggs, and cool them.
2. At the same time, you need to cook the languages.
3. Finished eggs, carrots and potatoes should be peeled and cut into small cubes of equal size.
4. It is better to lower the cooked tongues a little in cold water, so that later it will be easier to remove the skin from them.
5. Tongues also need to be cut into cubes.
6. Pour canned peas to eggs, carrots, potatoes and tongues, after draining the liquid.
7. Then add chopped pickled cucumbers to the salad (you can also use fresh cucumbers).
8. Salting and adding mayonnaise to the salad is recommended before serving.
Olivier salad is a classic New Year's feast, therefore it is better to cook it according to a proven traditional recipe.
