The original recipe of Russian salad which is thought up by Frenchman Lucian Olivier, the chef of the Moscow restaurant Hermitage in the 19th century very differed from modern. It contained a large amount of ingredients: from veal, fillet of a hazel grouse, crayfish tails, cepes to a celery, olives, olives, cherry and a marinated gooseberry. After the chef of other restaurant treated the visitors with Capital salad with a similar compounding, Olivier was engaged in search of the new ideas for the dish. But its secret left together with it, and people began to cook salad from the ingredients which were remembered by it.
Recipe of classical Russian salad
The present version of Russian salad , most likely, happened in Soviet period when inaccessible and expensive products were replaced with those which could be bought. So as a part of salad there were green peas, carrots and sausage. But this compounding is the most popular today.
So, to make Russian salad in a Soviet way, it is required to us: 7 boiled potatoes, 5 carrots, 6 boiled eggs, 6 tinned cucumbers, 300 grams of boiled sausage, bank of a canned peas, 100 grams of sour cream and 200 grams of mayonnaise.
All ingredients are cut small by cubes, it is possible manually, it is possible the combine as option – by means of the egg slicer. Then everything mixes up, salted, refuels sour cream and mayonnaise sauce.
The taste of this salad is familiar practically to all since childhood, but if there is a wish to diversify the menu, to try something new, we read the recipes following it.
The recipe of Russian salad with champignons
This option of salad is preparing from the following products: 4 boiled potatoes, 4 boiled eggs and 4 salty cucumbers and also 1 boiled carrot, 1 bulb, 1 jar of peas, champignons fresh in number of 200 grams and mayonnaise of 150 g.
How to make mushrooms Russian salad. Eggs, cucumbers, potato and carrots are cut on custom by cubes. To chop mushrooms and onions not largely, then to fry to a zarumyanivaniye on vegetable oil. Add the fried mushrooms to other cut products, there to attach a canned peas and mayonnaise, to mix everything.
As the option can be replaced marinated cucumbers with marinated or salty mushrooms in classical Russian salad.
Russian salad with a salmon
For this purpose a little unusual salad will be necessary to us: 200 g of fillet of light-salted red fish (salmon, salmon or trout), 4 boiled potatoes, 5 boiled eggs, 2 cucumbers, by all means fresh, 1 or 2 boiled carrots, bank of peas, 200 g of mayonnaise, bunch of parsley and several plumelets of onions.
How to make fish Russian salad. Potatoes, cucumbers, carrot and a fish fillet are traditionally cut by cubes. Yolks separate from proteins. Whites are also cut by cubes or on the egg slicer, and yolks are grated. We dry peas, we slice greens. Mayonnaise needs to be mixed with yolks, ingredients of salad to connect, fill with this sauce. It is accurate to mix everything.
Recipe of Russian salad with chicken and olives
For this salad we will take a half banks of a canned peas, 100 g of olives without stones, on 4 boiled eggs and potatoes, on 1 pickled and fresh cucumber, 1 boiled carrots, the boiled chicken breast and 100 g of mayonnaise, a greens bunch.
How to make chicken Russian salad. As always, we cut all products in cubes. We slice greens. Olive should be dried and cut ringlets. Peas need to be dried too. We connect everything in one ware, we salt-pepper, we flavor with mayonnaise and we mix.
Recipe of Russian salad with apples and beef
To make such salad, we will boil 300 g of beef, 4 potatoes and 5 eggs and also 1 carrot. Still we need 3 salty cucumbers, 1 apple and 1 bulb. Not do without 100 g of peas and 150 g of mayonnaise.
How to make apples Russian salad. Cubes cut meat, potatoes, carrots, cucumbers and eggs. The crushed onions should be drenched with boiled water. Peas should be dried. We peel apple, we cut out a core, we cut in cubes too. We connect all products prepared thus, we mix and we dress with mayonnaise.
In popularity of Russian salad will hardly once give way in rating to other salads. But it is possible to prepare it from the different recipes, introducing every time in its taste some new notes.