The idea of ​​cooking a salad with sausage for dinner or to the festive table that came to you will be truly happy, because as a result of its embodiment, you will delight your guests and household with an unusually delicious and refined dish. Traditionally, the most popular in the post-Soviet space, loved by many and at the same time the simplest meat salad with sausage, is Olivier. Today, the range of this snack has expanded significantly. How to cook meat salad with sausage? Let's talk about this in our article.
About the variety of options
To prepare the main salad in any home kitchen - olivier with sausage - the classic recipe traditionally provides for the use of the Doctor's. Innovators add boiled-smoked to it. Culinary experts say that with any type of sausage - chorrizo, salami, cured and smoked, cooked "Doctor's" and "Amateur" - you can create a salad that will not only please loved ones during a family dinner, but will decorate any festive feast.
It is appropriate to add sausage with a bright taste to potato salad or combine it with rice or cold pasta. Adding this product will nourish any green salad. Most often, they prepare meat salad with mayonnaise, but you can move away from the stereotype and season the appetizer with vegetable oil, sour cream, sauce, yogurt, etc.
Tips connoisseurs: how to cook a treat?
This popular meat product - tender ham, boiled or smoked sausage - the housewives very willingly use as the basis for salads. There are a lot of recipes. The list of necessary ingredients for meat salad with sausage includes fresh or boiled vegetables, cereals, cheese, eggs and others. All products should first be chopped, then put in a deep container, season with sauce, sour cream or mayonnaise and mix. Sometimes housewives form a treat in layers. Often in the salad there are several types of sausages.
When choosing a sausage, experienced housewives recommend paying attention to the smell and color of the product. If you want to reduce the calorie content of the dish, replace the mayonnaise with a mixture of sour cream and spices or yogurt (natural). Rusks are added to the salad just before serving, otherwise they will get wet and turn into porridge. Add a spicy taste to the addition of onions pre-marinated in diluted vinegar.
Classic recipe
First, prepare a meat salad with sausage according to the classic recipe. This beautiful, bright and unusually tasty snack can be prepared in any season. The process of its creation is extraordinary simplicity, as well as a set of ingredients. You will need:
- 600 grams of Doctor’s sausage;
- four onions;
- four pickles;
- sixth of a glass of olive oil;
- to taste: herbs, vinegar, mustard, salt, pepper (ground black).
The preparation of the classic meat salad with sausage according to this recipe provides the following: onions are chopped, scalded with boiling water, the sausage is cut into cubes, peeled and chopped cucumbers. The prepared products are mixed, seasoned with vinegar, olive oil, salt, sugar, pepper and mustard, placed in a salad bowl and decorated with greens.
The history of the classic salad recipe with sausage "Olivier"
This treat is one of the indispensable attributes of any festive feast in the post-Soviet space. You can call it "Olivier", of course, only with a big stretch. Little is known that originally this French dish, born in the 19th century, was an assortment of several delicacies. However, over time, the composition of this culinary recipe, actively used by Soviet housewives, has changed very much. It became much easier to prepare and gained considerable love and popularity among Soviet gourmets. From the original recipe created by the French culinary specialist, only mayonnaise and boiled eggs remained in it. But this new dish, born in Soviet cuisines, has also become a kind of classic. In the post-Soviet space, housewives continue to contribute something to the classic recipe for meat salad with sausage. Thanks to innovations, the range of options for this delicacy is expanding every day.
Salad ingredients
The classic recipe for meat salad with Olivier sausage involves the use of the following ingredients:
- 400 grams of cooked sausage;
- five eggs;
- one glass of green peas;
- 200 grams of carrots;
- 500 grams of potatoes;
- 350 grams of pickles;
- 100 grams of mayonnaise;
- to taste - salt, greens.
From the presented quantity of products ten servings of the dish will come out.
How to cook?
Act as follows:
- Boil eggs, boil potatoes and carrots in a separate saucepan, cool.
- Dice the sausage.
- Chop pickles.
- Cooled products are cut into cubes: carrots, eggs, potatoes. Cubes should be about the same size.
- Then all the ingredients are mixed, a little green peas are added. Part of the product can be left to decorate the salad.
- Next, the finished dish is sent to the refrigerator for 2-3 hours.
Before serving, the salad is seasoned with mayonnaise, salt is added to taste. This dish will look very beautiful if you design it using serving rings. Often, a salad is laid out in beautiful glass glasses or glasses. Decorate the treat with green peas (remaining) and fresh herbs.
Olivier with sour apples
To prepare this nutritious and satisfying winter meat salad you will need:
- eight potatoes;
- six carrots;
- four sour apples;
- three onions;
- 600 grams of pickled or pickled cucumbers;
- 600 grams of green peas (canned);
- 250 grams of chicken legs (boiled or smoked);
- 250 grams of Doctor’s sausage;
- 250 grams of smoked meats (ham);
- 250 grams of goose smoked breast.
In addition, they use:
- five eggs;
- one and a half tablespoons of mayonnaise;
- one bunch of green dill;
- two teaspoons of salt;
- two teaspoons ground black pepper.
Cooking
They act like this: they prepare all the necessary products, boil potatoes and carrots in their uniforms with salted water. Cool, peel. Dice carrots and potatoes, as well as all other ingredients. All spread in a deep bowl and mix thoroughly. Dill is crushed, it is added to a bowl with chopped products along with green peas, salt and pepper. Again thoroughly mixed. Before serving, the salad must be infused.
Another winter version of Olivier (with fresh apples)
There are many recipes for winter salad. We suggest you familiarize yourself with one more option, beloved by many. To prepare 8 servings of the dish use:
- 400 grams of cooked sausage;
- two potatoes;
- one carrot;
- one apple;
- three eggs;
- 300 grams of pickled cucumbers;
- 200 grams of green peas;
- half onions;
- 150 grams of mayonnaise.
About the cooking method
Boil vegetables in a peel, cool, peel and cut into cubes. Sausage, apple and eggs (boiled) are also cut into cubes. Cucumbers (pickled) and onion are chopped. Green peas are added, after which all the ingredients are mixed.
How to cook a salad "Winter dance"?
Use:
- three sausages (or 300 grams of boiled sausage);
- three catrophelins (boiled);
- two carrots (boiled);
- one large beet (boiled);
- two cucumbers (canned);
- three eggs (boiled);
- 250 grams of mayonnaise;
- to taste - salt, pepper, herbs (for decoration).
All products are cut into small cubes, mixed, salted, pepper if necessary, seasoned with mayonnaise. The salad is laid out in a salad bowl in the form of a slide, decorated with an egg, slices of vegetables and sausages, as well as greens.
Cooking summer Olivier
This version of the famous salad is called summer, because among its ingredients you can see a fresh cucumber that brings a fresh flavor to the dish, and sour cream (instead of mayonnaise), which makes the dish easier, makes it less nutritious. Use:
- "Doctoral" sausage - 250-300 grams;
- three to four potatoes;
- fresh cucumbers (as much);
- greens (one bunch);
- green peas - 200 grams;
- two to three tablespoons of sour cream;
- to taste - pepper, salt.
Salad preparation is no different from the previous options: all products are crushed, thoroughly mixed, seasoned with sour cream. Before serving, the dish must be infused.
About Salad with Peas and Sausage
The meat salad with sausage and peas is usually associated with the famous Olivier. But besides this popular and beloved by many dishes, there are many other salads with this set of products. Peas experts call it very useful for the body. Mistresses often use it to make snacks. Salad with green or canned peas and sausage is an extremely tasty, quick and easy to prepare dish.
Sausage and peas go well with a wide variety of ingredients: potatoes (boiled), cabbage, cucumbers (both fresh and pickled), sweet peppers, tomatoes, carrots (boiled or Korean), eggs, cheese, herbs, etc. It is difficult to call such a salad dietary, since basically this appetizer is seasoned with mayonnaise, but the dish satisfies hunger pretty well and energizes it for the whole day.
Those who are concerned about the state of their figure should choose a salad recipe with peas, sausage and fresh cabbage. This lightweight meal improves digestion. It is best to season such a salad with sour cream (low-fat) or yogurt, as well as a mixture of oil (vegetable), vinegar or lemon juice.
"Princess and the Pea" (salad recipe with sausage and peas)
You will need:
- One jar of canned green peas.
- 300 g of boiled sausage.
- 250 g of crab sticks.
- Carrots - 2 pcs.
- Three eggs.
- Mayonnaise.
About cooking features
Eggs and carrots are boiled, peeled, crushed on a grater (large). Crab sticks are cut into small cubes. Cheese (hard) is rubbed on a fine grater so that the product is more tender and airy. This salad should be laid out in layers in the following sequence:
- smoked sausage is laid out first;
- then a layer of canned peas;
- then there are layers: crab sticks, eggs, carrots, cheese.
Each of the layers is smeared with mayonnaise. The surface is sprinkled with cheese (grated). Especially effective will be serving layered lettuce in a transparent bowl. If desired, the layers can be laid out twice.
The recipe for salad "Firewood"
For cooking use:
- One jar of canned peas.
- Three eggs.
- One pack of crackers.
- 300 g smoked sausage.
- Mayonnaise.
- Three pickles.
- A little greens (chives, dill, parsley).
Cooking salad
A salad is prepared like this: eggs are boiled, peeled, and grated on a coarse grater. Sausage is cut in the form of a long straw. Cucumbers (salted) are cut into cubes.
Lay out the dish in layers:
- crackers mixed with mayonnaise;
- a layer of canned peas;
- sausage layer;
- eggs
- pickles (chopped); the surface of the dish is covered with greens.
Salad is decorated with crackers. The dish should be juicy enough, sparing mayonnaise to lubricate the layers is not recommended.
Salad with sausage and crackers (quick) recipe
We offer to diversify the diet with one of the very tasty and quick salads with boiled sausage, canned beans, corn and crackers. Ingredients:
- 250 grams of canned corn;
- 250 grams of canned beans;
- 150 grams of sausage (preferably cervelat);
- one onion;
- 60 grams of crackers;
- three tablespoons of mayonnaise.
Cooking technology
Proceed as follows:
- First, products are prepared according to the list in the recipe.
- Beans are used in their own juice; of all types of sausages, cervelat is best suited; crackers are recommended to be chosen with the taste of “Hunting” sausages.
- The sausage is chopped in the form of straws and sent to a bowl where the ingredients will be mixed.
- Next, washed canned beans and corn are added to it (draining liquid from it).
- Peel the onion (onion) and cut into small cubes. In order to leave bitterness from it, it is necessary to fill it with water (boiled) for 5-7 minutes. Then the onions are squeezed and transferred to the other components of the dish.
- Then crackers are poured into a bowl and all the ingredients are mixed.
Bon Appetit!