Perhaps, in our country there is no person who would not know what Olivier salad is. This dish overshadowed all recipes of Russian folk cuisine with its popularity, and then it became completely considered national. And now it’s hard to imagine a family in which Olivier salad would not be prepared before the new year. Its composition may vary slightly among different housewives. But unchanged in it remains the mandatory cutting of products into cubes and dressing them with mayonnaise.
What is part of olivier?
We will discuss the subtleties of preparing this dish in our article. According to the old Soviet GOST, olivier is a
meat salad. So, in its composition must be meat. But in Soviet times, the
doctor ’s
sausage was the most popular product that was put in this salad
. But after perestroika, they began to replace it with boiled meat. Moreover, in some sources the salad "Olivier", the composition of which we now know from memory, included beef and was officially called "Winter", since all the ingredients could be easily obtained in the cold season. But the version of such a dish with boiled chicken, according to all sources, went like a
Stolichny salad, and it was most often confused with classic Olivier.
In general, the history of this dish goes back to the 19th century, when the French citizen, cook Lucien Olivier, opened the Hermitage restaurant in Moscow . His signature dish was a salad, which the creator himself, as a foreigner, dubbed "Russian." True, modern housewives would be very impressed to see the then composition of “Olivier”. The classic recipe for this dish, proposed by Monsieur Olivier, included not only potatoes, sauce and cucumbers, but also such exotic ingredients as cancer necks, which required at least three pieces to be put in one serving. Also, fried grouse, olives, kabul soy, capers and lanspeak, a clear broth that is well gelled, were also an essential ingredient of that salad.
Cooking
As you can see, such a salad simply could not be “folk” - after all, few know about a part of its components. But it was in this form that he became famous throughout the world. Well, a completely different Olivier salad has won national love. You probably know its composition. Used products can be easily found in every refrigerator.
So, what does it necessarily include:
- Boiled potatoes;
- boiled carrots;
- Doctoral sausage or boiled meat;
- canned green peas;
- pickled or pickled cucumbers ;
- boiled eggs;
- mayonnaise.
Some people also add to this list a fresh apple, onion or leek, as well as fresh cucumbers instead of pickles, which is also considered a variation of the recipe. And for supporters of a vegetarian diet, this salad exists in a meatless format - and does not lose its taste at all.
Do you know what was the biggest salad "Olivier"? We will tell you its composition now. The salad included as many as 220 kilograms of potato, 170 kilograms of cucumbers, half a ton of sausage and 5,000 eggs. It was cooked by Orenburg chefs on the eve of 2013. And since then this record has not been broken by anyone.