We all know what Olivier salad is. Without it, many often do not imagine a feast, New Year or birthday. But not everyone is aware that he has a great alternative. Indeed, admit that Olivier is already fed up with it. But no less satisfying and tasty salad “Obzhorka”, the photo of which adorns our article, you will definitely like it. There are many variations of this appetizer. Common in them is only one ingredient - meat. It can be pork, beef, liver, chicken or tongue. Although in some cases even fish and seafood are used. "Glutton" refers to the type of winter meat salads. It can even be a full substitute for the second course. Read this article, and we are sure that this snack will take its rightful place on your holiday table.
Salad "Obzhorka" classic: recipe with photo
As with all snacks, this dish has its own canons of cooking. Therefore, here we, first of all, give the "classics of the genre." The main ingredient of the snack is, as we have already mentioned, meat. The recipe for the classic salad "Obzhorka" involves the use of boiled beef. It is taken about a half kilogram. The meat is boiled in salted water and cooled. We rub two large carrots not too finely. We clean a large salad white onion and cut into strips. Now connect the vegetables together. Fry onions and carrots together in vegetable oil. Set the vegetables aside for a while. It is this frying that makes the salad so satisfying. Now add a little sourness. We take 3 pickles and rub them too. If they secrete too much juice, squeeze it. And here came the turn of meat. We also thinly cut it into strips. We just had to mix all the ingredients together, salt, pepper and season with mayonnaise.
From the bird
The “Obzhorka” salad with chicken became popular. Firstly, the main ingredient in this appetizer cooks faster and is also more suitable for diet foods. 350 grams of chicken is cooked or baked in the oven. Experts say that the last way will give the salad a special taste. We cool the fillet and then take it apart into small fibers. We take onions and carrots one by one large piece, chop and fry, as in the previous recipe. We rub 200 grams of pickled cucumbers. The salad bowl for this snack should be with high sides. We put all the ingredients there, mix. Then add crushed or crushed garlic. For such a salad, it is better to make mayonnaise yourself. Well, they decorate it with slices of pickled cucumbers or green olives.
With Korean carrots
Want to spice up this dish? Variety of classic salad “Obzhora” carrot in Korean. We take the same pound of beef, cook and cool. Carrots will take us 120 grams. You can take a purchase. Then we proceed, as in the basic recipe: finely chop the boiled beef, rub 2-3 pickled cucumbers. But then we proceed a little differently. We do not fry a large onion, but chop and marinate with vinegar for about half an hour. Then we drain the water. We mix all products, season with mayonnaise, add salt and spices, decorate with chopped cucumbers and herbs.
With mushrooms
And here is another version of the spicy salad “Obzhorka”. 350 grams of boiled beef cut into slices. Grind a big red sweet onion. Mix with meat, sprinkle with lemon juice. Leave for five minutes. Meanwhile, fry 3 carrots in a pan in any odorless fat. Cut into pieces any pickled mushrooms, after draining the liquid from the jar. Mix all the products. Spread in a salad bowl. Salt, pepper. Dress with salad dressing or not too fat mayonnaise. Most often, this option "Glutton" is laid in the form of a slide before serving. It happens that mushrooms in this salad are used in combination with pork. In this case, only carrots are fried, and onions are pickled. Pork take about 400 grams. Sometimes on top of a snack sprinkled with salted crackers.
Smoked option
Salad "Obzhorka" can be prepared not only from poultry boiled fillet. Try making smoked chicken the main ingredient. In addition, this salad uses ingredients from other previous recipes - mushrooms and Korean carrots. Only instead of pickled champignons, this time we will deal with fresh, and onions will generally be excluded. Remove the skin from smoked chicken without fail. We clean 100 grams of mushrooms, cut into slices and lightly fry in oil. We turn two fresh cucumbers into small straws. Smoked chicken is divided into fibers. Steamed with boiling water 100 grams of prunes and also cut into pieces. Now mix all the ingredients and add 100 grams of Korean carrots. Dress salad with mayonnaise. The original taste is guaranteed thanks to the combination of meat and prunes!
With liver
Obzhorka salad with liver is rather modest, but nonetheless very tasty. It will come to a cozy dinner or a friendly feast. Liver for it can be used beef, pork, chicken or turkey. A pound of offal is washed, soaked and boiled in salted water for about twenty minutes. Then it is cooled and cut into strips. Pickled cucumbers (3 pieces) are also chopped. Onions with carrots are taken in the same amount as in the classic recipe, and, accordingly, fried. Add a can of canned peas or corn. Then mix all the ingredients and season with mayonnaise. The latter is better to take not too fat, ideally - 30 percent.
Gourmet salad
And now, attention! We are preparing a snack with the tongue. Using this by-product will create an original version of the Obzhorka salad. In addition, he will give the dish simply unique flavoring shades. To do this, the tongue is boiled a few hours before use, along with salt and the necessary spices. Then it is placed in cold water to make it easier to peel the rough skin. Peel the onion and three carrots, chop finely and fry, as in the classic recipe. Now give a touch of piquancy. We chop several pickled cucumbers and half a can of pickled mushrooms. Tongue cut into strips. Now mix all the ingredients in a salad bowl and season with mayonnaise. This appetizer is usually not salted, but decorated with the remaining pieces of the tongue and herbs.
Puff pastry salad: recipe with photo
Can you surprise guests with this appetizer? Yes, of course! The photos of the classic Obzhorka salad with beef are especially effective if you prepare this salad a little differently - in a banquet or a festive version. To do this, lay it in layers. Most often, the usual classic recipe with beef is used. It is prepared in almost the same way, but with the obligatory use of mushrooms. They are fried with onions. Two raw carrots are coarsely grated and mixed with the same amount of chopped fresh cucumbers. The bottom layer we will definitely go meat. It is finely cut or divided into fibers. Dress the layers with a mixture of mayonnaise and sour cream in a ratio of 2: 1. Then it will come out not too bold. Dressing needs to be salt and pepper. She greased a layer of meat. Then comes the onion fried with mushrooms. Top - a mixture of cucumber with carrots. 250 grams of smoked suluguni are divided into fibers and laid in the next layer. And finally, the last layer is prunes. It is steamed in advance, and then cut with a sharp knife. In some variations of this salad, Korean carrots are used. Then the cucumber is a separate layer. Go upstairs are carrots and cheese. Prunes are placed somewhere in the middle. Each layer, including the topmost one, is lubricated with a dressing. Such a salad is served in a deep transparent bowl so that all its layers are visible. Another way to put a puff snack on the table is to arrange it portionwise in bowls.
With ham
Korean carrots in the Obzhorka salad can be combined with other products. For example, with ham. Most often, this type of snack is also made flaky. Although you, if desired, can mix everything in a bowl. A ham salad is being prepared according to the previous recipe for appetizer layers. But the order of the layers is slightly changed. Fried onions with mushrooms. It is laid out in a bowl in which you will serve salad. Then go diced ham - about 200 grams. Mushrooms, by the way, we take the same amount, you can even more. Next is a layer of Korean carrots. And on top - layers of suluguni and prunes. We also season this version of puff salad with a mixture of mayonnaise and sour cream. But since ham was used as the main ingredient, the ratio of sauce components changes. In this case, there should be more sour cream than mayonnaise. Grease with dressing each layer.
Gourmet Salad: Layered
"Glutton" with boiled tongue can be prepared in layers. In this case, salted or pickled cucumbers are replaced by capers, and canned mushrooms are replaced by fresh ones. Prunes and hard cheese are also added. Mushrooms are cut into thin slices and fried with onions. The first layer is made of them. Boiled pork tongue is cut into cubes and laid on top. Next comes raw carrots, chopped on a grater, then capers, steamed and chopped prunes. The topmost layer in this type of puff salad is cheese. He is rubbed heavily and laid out last. Each layer, including the top, do not forget to grease with a dressing. It is also prepared from a mixture of sour cream with mayonnaise. But this time their ratio should be one to one.
Boiled pork, pomegranate and dried fruits
Since we undertook to surprise guests with an unusual combination of tastes, it is worth mentioning this recipe for the Obzhorka salad. For him, we need 200 grams of boiled pork, which we cut into small slices. Open a jar of pickled champignons, drain the brine. Mushrooms are also cut into pieces. If they are small, just cutting them in half will be enough. Then take 150 grams of Korean carrots and hard cheese. Last coarsely rub. Steamed dried fruits - raisins, dried apricots, prunes. Cut large pieces into smaller pieces. And finally, we extract the grain from half the fruit of the pomegranate. All these components are thoroughly mixed together. We make dressing from mayonnaise and sour cream. Each sauce ingredient should be equally divided. Salt, pepper, season. The salad should be a little infused.
With fish
Salad "Glutton" may appear in front of us in a completely different way. If you are used to it as a spicy mix of meat, vegetables and pickles, then you should know that some of its varieties can also be used by vegetarians. In the spring, "Glutton" with herring is very useful. Such a salad is just a vitamin bomb! For him, we take one large salted herring, and even better - two fatty fillets. Three sweet and sour apples cut into slices. We do the same with a large white onion. Mix with apples. Pour this mix with 6% vinegar and leave to marinate for 10 minutes. We clean the bones of herring, and if you have a filet, then just cut it into pieces. Then we add to it the contents of cans with peas and corn (without liquid). Grind half a bunch of dill. Add pickled apples and onions. Salt, pepper. We season with vegetable oil - the most delicious and healthy olive. And here you have a wonderful lean appetizer!
With seafood
In this case, the salad recipe is changed simply beyond recognition. We take 200 grams of squid. Pour them with boiling water to make it easier to clean and gut. After all these manipulations, my seafood, remove the film. Cook for no more than 5 minutes in boiling water. Then cool and cut very thinly. Take a pair of medium-sized sour apples. Peel, cut out the middle, shred in strips. Three hard boiled eggs. Peel and cut into slices. Divide one lemon in half. Squeeze the juice from one part. We cut the second into slices. We mix all products in a salad bowl. We combine lemon juice with mayonnaise and water the appetizer with dressing. Garnish with greens and slices of citrus.
Tips for novice cooks
The basic recipe for the Obzhorka salad is based on such a meat ingredient as beef. But we have already seen that you can use chicken, tongue, and liver to cook it. Culinary experts also experiment with pork, turkey or even a boiled heart. Meat can not only be cooked, but also baked. When frying onions and carrots, add a little sugar to the oil. Caramelized vegetables and give the salad an original touch. You can change the recipe by adding peas, corn or olives. The taste of mayonnaise for dressing "Glutton" is improved by adding a little sour cream or a teaspoon of mustard to it. Keeping such a salad for a long time is not recommended. If you prepared it in advance, then refuel it just before serving. Only a layered salad is kept for about two hours in the refrigerator so that all its layers are well saturated.