What are the ingredients for a winter salad?

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

It is only in Europe and America that radishes appear when stores open. We have this vegetable "begins" only at the end of spring. But this circumstance is by no means a reason to refuse delicious vitamin salads in the “off season”. There are always several ingredients on hand that can be used to prepare a nutritious and he althy snack. In this article, we will look at what ingredients are needed for a winter salad. But first, some theory.

Any salad, according to the canons of culinary art, should consist of three parts. The first is a vitamin, but at the same time a refreshing note. Without it, the salad will be a cold second course. The other part is nutritious. In summer light salads, it may not be. But in winter it is a must. And, finally, the third component of salads is sauce, dressing or dressing. And now let's look at all this using the example of classic Russian snacks that are customary to cook in winter.

Olivier

For many people, the New Year is associated with the smell of fir needles, bubbles of champagne, Christmas tinsel. But for a Russian person, this is, first of all, Olivier salad. Without it, the celebration of the New Year is impossible. And the housewives make it in such quantities to stretch until Christmas - a whole basin. But few people know that not everyone can afford the ingredients of the winter Olivier salad. If you believe the cookbook, which was published in 1897 (authorship of Pelageya Alexandrova), then the appetizer of the French chef that glorified Russia includes the following products. Hazel grouse meat, crayfish necks and clear veal head broth (lanspeak) served as a nutritious part. From winter vegetables, the composition included boiled potatoes and pickles. But for freshness, capers, lettuce leaves and olives were added to real Olivier. Isn't the appetizer too expensive?

Post-revolutionary metamorphoses of the classic Olivier

Alas, the Soviet man, who was about to live happily under communism, did not even see hazel grouses, capers, lanspices and crayfish necks. However, desperate housewives were not going to just give up. Various “substitutes” for expensive ingredients for the winter Olivier salad were used. Riabchikov was replaced with chicken or boiled tongue, and when socialism entered the “developed” phase, with boiled sausage. Instead of cancer necks, the proletarian culinary fantasy introduced hard-boiled eggs into the recipe. Olive capers have been replacedboiled carrots, onions and canned peas. Well, lettuce leaves disappeared by themselves, like an unnecessary bourgeois decoration. Thus, from the old classic recipe, the Revolution of 1917 and the events that followed it "survived" only potatoes and cucumbers.

Classic Winter Salad Ingredients

However, the appetizer, despite the fact that all delicacies were completely removed from its composition, turned out to be excellent in taste. By the way, it is this "proletarian" salad that has gained popularity abroad, and is now served all over the world under the name "Russian". The saturating component there is boiled sausage. But in Russia itself, opinions about the salad were divided. People familiar with the glorious culinary past of the country refuse to dignify the Olivier dish, which was born in the years of total shortages. And they came up with another name for it - "Winter". By the way, if you apply the same set of ingredients, but use fried chicken fillet instead of sausage, you get a different salad - "Capital". There is also a festive version of the winter snack. In it, instead of sausage or chicken, boiled beef or pork tongue, or meat is used. Let's now create a classic Winter salad as an example.

Fast and budget

The satiating part in this appetizer will be eggs (five pieces) and boiled sausage (400 grams). Refreshing ingredients for a winter salad are: a can of canned green peas, two pickles and one large onion. Neutral in taste, but satiating components are boiled potatoes (threetubers) and carrots (two things). The technology of preparing the salad "Winter" is no different from the usual Olivier salad. Potatoes, carrots and eggs are boiled. Then they are peeled and cut into small cubes. We do the same with sausage and pickles. The onion is also finely chopped. The peas are strained and added to the common pot. Don't forget to s alt and pepper the dish! This appetizer is traditionally dressed with mayonnaise. Want to reduce calories? Then, instead of mayonnaise, dress the salad with sour cream. A thicker, richer aioli will do for more nutritional value.

Other famous winter salads

You can eat more than one "Olivier" from autumn to spring. In the cookbook of a Soviet person, there were also such masterpieces as “Fur Coat”, “Mimosa”, as well as vinaigrettes, which each housewife prepares in her own way. Consider what ingredients are constantly present in the winter salad. Literally in every recipe we meet potatoes, and if it is not there, beans. These are he althy foods that saturate perfectly. They serve as a background for other ingredients, since they themselves do not have a pronounced taste. Of the vegetables in winter salads, carrots, onions, celery root, garlic, cabbage, and beets are also often present. They are stored for a long time, so they are easy to get in the winter. The saturating part does not depend on the season. It can be meat, poultry, fish, seafood, mushrooms, cheese, nuts. The problem with winter salads is the meager selection of refreshing ingredients. In the summer we can take radishes, fresh cucumbers, spinach and other greens. In winter, we will have to limit ourselves to apple, pomegranate seeds, orange, all kinds of marinades and homemade preparations. Although in today's supermarkets it is quite possible to buy fresh vegetables, and even arugula and cherry tomatoes.

Starol'vovsky salad

We bring to your attention a small selection of recipes for winter snacks taken from a Ukrainian cookbook. The ingredients for the Starolvovsky winter salad are as follows: four small red beets, five cloves of garlic, a handful of walnut kernels, a few raisins, a spoonful of vinegar. The cooking process will not require effort from you, but it will take some time. First you need to cook beets in their uniforms. Vinegar should be added to the water so that the root crop retains its ruby color. It usually takes an hour to boil beets. Next, it needs to be cooled, peeled and grated on a fine grater. Squeeze garlic through a press to it. Roast the nuts, crush and add to the salad. Throw and steamed raisins. S alt. Top with mayonnaise.

Bean salad

Beans are soaked overnight, but the next morning they cook for a very long time. Therefore, it will be better if canned beans are a saturating ingredient for a winter salad. Drain the liquid from the jar. We wash the beans. We clean four onions and three carrots, cut into small cubes. Fry until golden brown in vegetable oil. Since we are not preparing a soup, but a salad, the root crops must then be folded into a sieve to drain excess fat. Four pickles cut into the samecubes. Mix with beans, onions and carrots. S alt the salad. We fill it with mayonnaise.

Pork ham salad with champignons

Despite the loud name, this appetizer is very budget. What do you need for a winter salad? The ingredients are as follows: baked pork (boiled pork) only 200 grams. Pickled champignons - the same; two small tubers of potatoes; 100 g of hard cheese; four pickled cucumbers; two bulbs; a dozen walnuts; lemon; mayonnaise for dressing. Like any winter salad, we start cooking by boiling potatoes in uniforms. We clean and cut it into cubes. Grind other ingredients in the same way. Sprinkle with lemon juice, season with mayonnaise. Now that you know so many winter salad recipes, your table will be enriched with new dishes.