Russian Christmas Food: 'Olivier' ("Russian Salad") Winter Salad Recipe

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Ingredients:

traditionally it should be beef. You can use chicken breast or substitute them with ham or cooked sausage - 200-250 gram
4 potatoes of medium size
3 or 4 eggs
4 pickled gherkins- about 9 cm long
1 carrot medium size
1 medium size onion
1 sour apple ( optional as this is only a modern twist to it )
1 tin of green ( garden ) peas ( those that are ready to eat in tins )
sour cream ( could be substituted with mayonnaise)
salt
freshly ground black pepper
fresh or dried herbs like dill,coriander or parsley - this is purely optional and only if you like herbs. In my family we use a lot of herbs

This amount of the salad goes for 4 people (4 potatoes, 4 gherkins,3-4 eggs = calculating as 1 of the kind for 1 person)

Tip: To make a salad (any) tastier try to put about one dessert or table spoon (depends how you like it) of sunflower/rapeseed oil in addition to sour cream or mayonnaise.

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Watch how to make Olivier

How to make Russian Original Olivier

Wash well potatoes and carrots without peeling the skin off.
Put them into a pan with a boiling water and cook/ Keep in low boiling until they are soft ( but not falling in pieces!),
Take them out of the water and leave them to cool.
Boil eggs 8-10 minutes, then put them into the bowl with the cold water.

Then:

Peel and chop eggs.
Peel potatoes and carrots and cut into small cubes ( 1 or 1.2 cm cubes)
Peel and finely chop the onion
Gherkins cut into small cubes ( smaller than potatoes cubes)
Wash the apple, peel it and cut into small cubes.
Chicken (Ham or Sausage ) cut into cubes as well ( the same size of 1 or 1.2 cm cubes)
Take a bowl and mix the potatoes, carrots, apple, ham, peas, onion, pickles and eggs in it.
A bit of salt (bearing in mind that the salad will have the mayonnaise in it as well) and put freshly ground black pepper.
At last, put the sour cream (or mayonnaise) in it and mix.

It will look like you see it on this picture and it's OK to put it like this on the table . But you can decorate it as you wish. You can decorate it as shown on the pictures below ( look below at other serving suggestions)-- with egg, tomato, carrots, olives and herbs. Let it rest for 1 hour at the room temperature and put it into the fridge for another hour or two and serve.

This is the original recipe of this salad. Some people put other ingredients into it , but then the salad would not be original and only a variation of it.

It is really simple to make it. The principle here is to just simply chop all of the products, mix them and that's it !

TIP: it will make it simpler and faster if you boil veg and eggs the day before .

Try it, I am sure you will love it as I do.