Every modern family and an individual Russian person knows Olivier and Zimny salads. How do they differ? What are the classic recipes for these dishes? This and more in this article.
Description
The base salad of the New Year's feast is the beloved Olivier. The Winter Salad recipe is a bit similar. Rather simple ingredients, which, combined with each other, create a special symphony of taste, and also look very picturesque on any table: New Year's or dining.
The recipe "Olivier" is well-known to both the hostess, wise in life experience, and to the teenage schoolboy. Although each family has its own special zest that allows you to create a unique version of your favorite dish.
But not many people know that the real recipe for Olivier salad, which was first prepared by French culinary specialist Lucien Olivier in Moscow at the Hermitage restaurant (60s of the XIX century), is absolutely not the same as the Slavic people know it at present.
Story
Chef Olivier was very fond of improvising in the culinary field: creating new dishes, experimenting with ingredients. So the incredibly delicious salad-cocktail Olivier was born.
In this dish, the main components were laid out in layers. And in the middle of the very top a small hole was made in which a slide of finely chopped pickles, boiled eggs and potatoes, capers was placed. Especially for the salad, Monsieur Olivier came up with a dressing that completed this - divinely delicious - composition.
But gradually, the main ingredients of the dish became difficult to get on the shelves of Russian stores. And because they were replaced with those that were on sale. The Russians added peas, boiled carrots, an apple and so on to it. And the game was replaced with sausage.
Thus was born the new version of Olivier salad - Winter. What is the difference and recipes will be discussed later.
Olivier Original
For 1 kilogram of salad, close to that prepared by the famous French chef, you need:
- Pickled Cucumber - 1 piece.
- Grouse meat - 0.5 pieces.
- Olives - 4 pieces.
- Potato - 3 pieces.
- Cancer necks - 3 pieces.
- Lettuce - 4 pieces.
- Mayonnaise sauce - 1.5 tablespoons.
Cooking
Cut the fried grouse, boiled potatoes and cucumbers into even strips. Mix the ingredients.
Add olives (or capers). Season with mayonnaise sauce. Refrigerate and put in a crystal salad bowl. Garnish with crayfish necks (boiled), herbs. Serve cold.
Grouse meat can be replaced with chicken, veal, partridge. And pickles - gherkins.
Russian Olivier Recipe
A modern salad is prepared from the following ingredients:
- Potato - 4 pieces.
- Eggs - 5 pieces.
- Pickles - 3 pieces.
- Cooked sausage - 0.400 kg.
- Canned peas - 1 can.
- Onion - 1 piece.
- Greens - 20 g.
- Mayonnaise - 0.200 kg.
Cooking
It is quite simple to make a tasty and beloved salad by many: cut small and large cubes of boiled potatoes and eggs, cucumbers and sausage. Put canned peas (without liquid).
To improve the taste, it is recommended to add chopped onions and greens to the dish. As a dressing, use mayonnaise or mayonnaise sauce.
Option for cooking salad "Olivier"
An original and tender dish is obtained by adding slightly salted salmon (or salmon).
Ingredients
- Potato - 2 pieces.
- Eggs - 3 pieces.
- Pickles - 2 pieces.
- Lightly salted salmon - 0.200 kg.
- Canned peas - 0.100 kg.
- Onion - 1 piece.
- Greens - 20 g.
- Mayonnaise - 0.150 kg.
- Red caviar - 20 g.
Cooking
Cut into even cubes: boiled potatoes and eggs, salmon, cucumbers. Pour into pea ingredients (without liquid).
Finely chop the onion and herbs. Add to salad. Season with mayonnaise, cool.
Serve in a salad bowl, garnishing with red caviar on top (see photo above).
Winter Salad
What is the difference from Olivier? Some ingredients are replaced by others or new ingredients are added to slightly modify the usual dish.
For example, there is a salad option, where boiled meat or tongue is added to the sausage, and seasoned with a special sauce.
There is also a Winter salad salad recipe with chicken and mushrooms or vegetables (the so-called Winter Vitamin) and others.
Let's consider several options.
Winter Salad. Classic recipe
Just replacing some of the ingredients or adding new ones, you can make another salad - “Winter”. How is he different from Olivier? The classic Winter salad is made from the following ingredients:
- Potato - 8 pieces.
- Carrots - 4 pieces.
- Eggs - 6 pieces.
- Pickles - 5 pieces.
- Boiled tongue - 0.300 kg.
- Cooked sausage - 0.200 kg.
- Canned peas - 0.200 kg.
- Onion - 1 piece.
- Lettuce - 5 pieces.
- Greens - 20 g.
For refueling you need:
- Mayonnaise - 0.300 kg (can be replaced with yogurt or sour cream).
- Lemon juice - 2 tablespoons.
- French mustard - 1 tablespoon.
- Garlic - 3 cloves.
- Salt, black pepper.
Cooking
Put finely or coarsely diced into a salad bowl: boiled tongue, potatoes, eggs and carrots, sausage, cucumbers.
Add peas (without liquid) and chopped onion with herbs.
Prepare dressing (mix all the components intended for this, pass the garlic through the garlic and add to the dressing). Dress with salad dressing.
Serve in beautiful vases or use a round (square) shape to lay out portions on a flat plate.
Another variant of the Winter salad
How it differs from Olivier is already mentioned above - by adding new ingredients. For example, chicken, mushrooms and cheese. And also a way of giving.
For this version of a cocktail salad (i.e. puff), the following components are required:
- Chicken fillet - 0.300 kg.
- Pickled cucumbers - 6 pieces.
- Chicken eggs - 5 pieces.
- Mushrooms (champignons or others) - 0.200 kg.
- Onion - 1 piece.
- Hard cheese - 0.100 kg.
- Mayonnaise - 0.200 kg.
Cooking
Form the first level of the cubes of boiled chicken, smear with mayonnaise. Grate cucumbers on a coarse grater, form a second level, and also coat with mayonnaise.
Grate boiled peeled eggs on a coarse grater - this will be the third level, mayonnaise. Lightly fried mushrooms and onions lay out as a fourth level, mayonnaise.
And the last, fifth level, to make cheese grated on a coarse grater. Put in a cold place for 2 hours.
This, of course, is not quite a classic recipe for Winter salad (how it differs from Olivier by the set of products), but also a very tasty and desirable dish on any table.
Summary
Thus, there can be innumerable options for preparing Olivier salad. And every housewife, cook can make this dish original and tasty in its own way.