Olivier salad is a traditional and familiar dish for everyone on the festive table. Both children and adults love him. But not always his people can eat. Orthodox believers observe Christmas strict fasting and cannot enjoy their favorite dish during the New Year feast. In the article we will consider the recipes of lean Olivier with mushrooms, which will be a worthy substitute for a traditional dish. We also introduce the reader to new interesting salads with chicken and mushrooms.
Pickled Mushroom Salad
This is an option for cooking "Olivier" with mushrooms on a quick hand. Only vegetables are boiled in advance: potatoes and carrots. Onions need to be cut in half rings and pour boiling water so that all the bitterness comes out of it. You can use green instead of onions, then the color of the salad will be brighter. The remaining products are already sold ready-made: pickled champignons, green peas, pickled cucumbers (a little), canned corn can be added.
Mushrooms need to be washed. Often a lot of vinegar is added to canned food with mushrooms. Anyone who does not love him can just soak the mushrooms for a short while in boiled cold water. Excess acid will come out of it. Then they need to be finely chopped and poured into a salad bowl. Diced potatoes and carrots are sent there. Cucumbers are also washed well before slicing. The main thing is not to overdo it and observe the proportions so that the salad does not turn out acidic due to the presence of a large number of pickled products in it.
Drain the water from the onion, squeeze it a little by hand and send it to the rest of the ingredients. At the end, add peas and corn. It remains to add the sauce and mayonnaise. If you do not find lean mayonnaise for Olivier with mushrooms in the store, then use our tip on how to make it yourself at home.
Lean mayonnaise
For all lean dishes, you can make custard mayonnaise. It is not difficult to do, but you can store it in the refrigerator for several days.
For this recipe you will need half a glass of wheat flour, the same amount of cold water, 3 tablespoons of vegetable oil, a teaspoon of sugar and salt, 1 tablespoon of vinegar or you can use lemon juice (if you are not allergic to citrus fruits).
Pour flour into an enameled pan and add water in a thin stream, stirring constantly to prevent lumps from forming. Then the pan is put on fire and cooked with constant stirring until a thick sour cream. Then the container is removed from the stove and put in a cool place until it cools completely.
When the mass has cooled, you need to add all the other components and beat the mixture with a blender. Everything can be used for cooking lean Olivier with mushrooms according to the recipe.
Fresh Cucumber Salad
In this recipe, two types of cucumbers are used - fresh (1 piece) and pickled (1-1.5 pieces). You also need to cook fresh mushrooms in advance (you can take champignons, which are easy to purchase at any supermarket, or dry forest mushrooms prepared on your own). The difference will only be in the preparation. If mushrooms can simply be washed, diced and stewed in a frying pan in vegetable oil until the liquid evaporates, then forest mushrooms will have to tinker a bit longer.
First they must be filled with water so that they swell. Then rinse well and boil in a pan for 5 minutes, then drain the water and do the procedure again. Then drain the mushrooms through a saucepan and only then begin to stew them in a pan.
The rest of the ingredients are traditional, as for lean Olivier with mushrooms: boiled potatoes and carrots, canned peas, onions to taste - bulb or green, salt, pepper, lean mayonnaise.
Boil vegetables in advance so that they are cold at the time of cutting. Prepared components are superimposed in a large capacity. Potatoes and carrots are peeled and cut into small cubes. Onions are also finely chopped. After opening the jar with peas, the liquid must be drained, and only peas should be poured into the bowl. Add the cooled mushrooms, cut into squares with fresh and pickled cucumbers. At the end, add 2-3 tablespoons of lean mayonnaise and Olivier with mushrooms is well mixed. Do not forget to salt and, if desired, pepper.
Before serving, it is advisable to keep the salad at least covered for some time so that it is well saturated with all tastes. Such a "Olivier" with mushrooms will appeal to any guest. This option is distinguished by its freshness. It smells like mushrooms, the freshness of cucumbers is felt.
Vegetarian Olivier with mushrooms
For such a salad you need to take:
- 6 pieces of medium-sized potatoes;
- 2 pieces of carrots;
- 2 small apples;
- champignons - a pound;
- a jar of green peas;
- vegetable oil;
- lean mayonnaise or sour cream.
First, vegetables are washed and cooked in a pan: potatoes and carrots. In the meantime, you can do mushrooms. Mushrooms are washed, cut into thin strips or cubes (optional). Then everything is laid out in a pan and all the liquid is evaporated over a small fire. After this, vegetable oil is poured and stewed until cooked along with chopped onions. After cooking, the mixture is transferred to a bowl until completely cooled.
After the vegetables are cooked, you need to drain the water and leave them for a while on the side until cooling. Then they start to cook the salad itself. Vegetables are cut - potatoes, carrots, onions. Cooled mushrooms are added to the bowl. Diced apples, and peas are poured. At the end, you need to salt, pepper and add a couple of spoons of sour cream or mayonnaise. "Olivier" with mushrooms is very refined and tender.
Chicken and Mushroom Salad
This is a hearty salad that is suitable for a male company. To prepare it, prepare chicken fillet, pickled mushrooms - a half-liter jar, eggs - 4 pieces, a can of canned peas, 1-2 carrots, one medium-sized onion.
Before you chop the Olivier salad with mushrooms, you need to cook all the ingredients. First, boil the chicken on low heat for 30-40 minutes. Then you need to boil vegetables (potatoes, carrots) and eggs. Boil the eggs for 5 minutes and immediately drain the water, pouring a bowl of cold. Then the shell will be better removed.
Canned mushrooms must be drained from a can into a saucepan, washed under wastewater, cut into small pieces. Peel the onion and cut into small cubes.
The ingredients are mixed in a large bowl so that later the Olivier salad with mushrooms and chicken can be mixed well. Chilled chicken fillet is cut into small pieces, eggs are most conveniently broken into small parts with a fork. Vegetables are chopped and prepared mushrooms and peas are poured. Mayonnaise is added, salted, you can pepper if desired. Then, with a large spoon, everything is thoroughly mixed. That's it, the Olivier salad with chicken and mushrooms is ready! Enjoy your meal!
Cooking options
Olivier salad has many manufacturing options. It can be cooked with both boiled and smoked chicken. Mushrooms can be used not only pickled, but also stewed with onions. Onions can be used fresh, doused with boiling water, and pickled using vinegar and sugar.
Instead of onions, finely chopped feather onions are often added to Olivier. It refreshes not only the taste of the salad, but also its appearance. If you do not want the salad to be acidic, then you can replace pickled or pickled cucumbers with fresh ones or use an apple instead. It also adds sourness to the dish.
Tips for young housewives
In the Olivier salad, all the ingredients are cut into about the same size. These are small cubes, the size should correspond to peas or grains of corn. Eggs are best crushed with a fork. If you want to highlight the taste of mushrooms in a salad, then you can cut them larger, for example with thin strips.
Mushrooms need to be added to the bowl last, so that they do not flow. It is better to keep the salad until guests arrive in a cool place with a lid. When serving, it is recommended that the dish is beautifully decorated.
Dressing dishes with salad
If the hostess puts on the table a large dish with such a salad, then you need to smooth it with a tablespoon, giving it a beautiful rounded shape. The top layer of the salad can be sprinkled with finely chopped green onions, garnished with curly chopped vegetables, creating a flower of carrots. It can be laid out around the perimeter of peas or olives.
If the salad is served in portions, it is best to put the salad in the form of a cylinder on a plate. To create it, you can use a plastic bottle, cut from two sides to the required height.
You can decorate each serving in different ways. Make a drawing of vegetables, insert a sprig of parsley or dill, cover the eggs with crushed yolk.