"Russian salad" - one of the most favourite salads in Russia without which New Year's or other feast seldom does. However those who trains him regularly should mean that Russian salad salad is rather high-calorie dish.
Recipe of "Russian salad"
As well as any popular dish, Russian salad salad has a set of the recipes differing among themselves both in structure, and proportions of the ingredients entering it. So, for example, the classical "Soviet" recipe of salad includes boiled potatoes, boiled eggs, pickled cucumbers, green peas, a boiled sausage and mayonnaise.
However the quantity of variations on this recipe is extremely high. So, for example, adherents of traditions which claim that it is necessary to prepare this salad from the recipe of his author - the French culinary specialist Lucian Olivier prefer to replace a boiled sausage with boiled beef tongue which was present at the initial recipe.
And those who keep a figure and don't eat high-calorific products prefer to refuse mayonnaise as a part of this salad, having replaced it with less fat gas station, for example, sour cream or sauce on the basis of yogurt. Besides, a widespread way of decrease in caloric content of this salad among adherents of healthy food is replacement of a boiled sausage in its structure on chicken breast.
Caloric content of "Russian salad"
It is obvious that the caloric content of Russian salad salad directly depends on what ingredients were used at its preparation. As a result, the caloric content of the ready-to-eat meal prepared according to different recipes can differ rather significantly, up to distinction several times. For example, the most facilitated version of the recipe including chicken breast without skin and gas station on the basis of fat-free kefir can provide the salad caloric content which isn't exceeding 100 kcal on 100 g of a ready-made product. Use as a part of the recipe of fat sausage with a caloric content about 350 kcal on 100 g, a large number of classical mayonnaise which contains 67% of fat and other additional components we are capable to bring the general energy value of such salad to 270 kcal on each 100 g. Nevertheless, such extreme values of caloric content are usually characteristic of the modified recipes of Russian salad salad. Caloric content of the dish prepared according to the "Soviet" recipe, as a rule, is about 200 kcal on 100 g of a ready-made product. At the same time the specified amount of salad contains about 6-8 g of proteins, 15-17 g of fats and 6-10 g of carbohydrates, depending on proportions of the ingredients used at its preparation.