How to make classical Russian salad? It isn't really clear what to consider classics – or what was given by Lucian Olivier at the Moscow restaurant Hermitage, or the option of Soviet period adapted for empty shelves of shops. You shouldn't break a spear about it, the main thing that salad was pleasant to all.
How to make tasty Russian salad
Very much tasty recipeRussian saladeveryone will have the. At first it is necessary to remember indispensable traditional products in its structure. It:
- potatoes;
- carrots;
- eggs;
- cucumbers;
- onions;
- canned peas;
- mayonnaise;
- meat products.
Preparation of classical Russian salad a little in what differs from its exotic options. The recipe of a traditional dish may contain any meat products: boiled sausage, meat of any bird, boiled beef, language and even fish. Fans of an exclusive can experiment with crayfish tails, shrimps, hazel grouses, quails, sturgeon and red fish.
Cucumbers in salad can be as salty, marinated, and fresh. Ideally it have to be gherkins.
That's all, other products remain invariable, otherwise the made salad won't be Russian salad, it will be some new dish. Yes, still it is possible to add to a compounding mushrooms in any kind – salty or fried. There are fans of "highlight" in the form of the cut apple.
Several secrets of preparation of Russian salad
It is impossible to make Russian salad without potatoes. It is boiled or "in a uniform", or previously having cleaned.
That quickly and easily to peel potatoes "in a uniform", recommend to make before cooking on a tuber a superficial cut around. And it is sharp to cool already ready potato, having placed in ice water literally for several seconds. It will be rinded just when pressing on it by fingers two parties.
It is possible and not to do a cut in advance, it is simple to ship ready tubers in very cold water.
If Russian salad is cooked only on holidays, then store with mayonnaise house is better to replace mayonnaise especially as its preparation by means of the blender will take only 5-10 minutes.
Salad looks beautifully if components are cut in equally equal cubes. It is possible to achieve it, having taken the simple egg slicer in the assistant.
How to decorate Russian salad
Make tasty Russian salad – one business, but to its holiday table still it is required to issue beautifully. We use any improvised products, having included imagination. Here only a few ways to decorate salad.
1. Ladybugs from the tiny tomatoes of cherry cut in half. Heads are made of halves of olives, a point on an armor – of mayonnaise.
2. If Russian salad is made from red fish, then it is possible to decorate it with halves of quail testicles with red caviar and also shrimps.
3. It is easy to make of eggs camomiles or asters.
4. If salad is cooked for New year, then it is possible to issue it in the form of a fir-tree. Simply we spread it on a dish the hill and we decorate with branches of fennel or feathers of green onions, imitating a New Year's tree. From above "fir-tree" will be decorated by a star from carrots.
It is simple to make tasty Russian salad, it is worth being guided by the tastes or guests and to pick up the necessary ingredients.