Olivier with ham and other recipe options

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

Every year on the thirty-first of December… No, we don't go to the bathhouse. We are preparing Olivier for the New Year's holiday table. Probably, the preparation of this salad, so popular in our country, can be called a tradition. But despite the same name, each housewife has her own recipe, usually passed down by the older generation. Olivier with ham is probably the most popular option. Ham gives a richer flavor than boiled meat or sausage, and is quite inexpensive.

Olivier with ham: classic recipe

So, to prepare a classic Olivier take the following products:

• ham - 300-500 grams (depending on whether you like a large amount of meat in the salad);
• cucumbers (if you take pickled or s alted, then take them a little, about four, as ham is a rather bright product in taste, and they will interrupt each other);
• eggs (four pieces, pre-boil);
• potatoes (three or four medium-sized tubers);
• can of canned green peas (try to take those made in the summer, so the peas willsoft, canned straight from the garden, not reconstituted);
• carrots - two pieces of medium size;
• mayonnaise.

The question of the need for carrots can be left open, since half of the people like to add this vegetable to ham salad, and half can not stand it. Everything is quite individual here. The classic recipe includes it in the composition, but you are guided by your own feelings.

Cooking: easy and simple

Boil eggs, potatoes and carrots (did you decide to add it?). We cook vegetables directly in their skins, so they retain their taste, and the potatoes do not boil. Hard boiled eggs. We clean everything and cut into cubes. The size is a purely individual matter, but centimeter by centimeter is usually recommended. In general, try to keep proportions. If you cut everything in different sizes, the overall appearance of the salad will not be very beautiful. Wipe cucumbers with paper towels to avoid excess liquid. If you're making a salad in the summer or want to avoid too much s alt in your food, use fresh cucumbers. Olivier with ham with them will turn out light, but at the same time more insipid. Cut the ham into cubes (it can be any, even chicken, the main thing is that there is no excess fat), remove the fat, if any. Mix all the ingredients, s alt (carefully, as ham and cucumbers already contain s alt), pepper, add mayonnaise. Put in a salad bowl with a slide, and on top you can decorate with finely chopped green onions - so the salad will become a bright decoration of the table.

Be imaginative

Well, what can you doadd a new one to Olivier? So, probably, many people think. And absolutely in vain! We have already said that the meat component can be of any kind. Leftover chicken after dinner? Feel free to cut into a salad. Do you want to make your dish more refined? And here there is a solution. Boil the beef or pork tongue (beef tongue is preferable, as it is less fatty) and replace the ham with it. The salad will become tender and more useful. And if you want - add crispy green apples. This will certainly surprise guests, but the dish will become the most popular at the holiday.

What to fill?

You can make your own mayonnaise and it's quite easy. You will need products that everyone has in the refrigerator: vegetable oil (you can take olive oil, but be prepared for the fact that the sauce will end up bitter) - a glass, mustard - 1/2 or a whole tablespoon, eggs (yolk) - 2 pieces, vinegar 3% - 3 tablespoons, sugar and s alt to taste. Just put all the ingredients in a bowl and beat with a mixer until the mixture is white and thick. No store-bought sauce compares to homemade mayonnaise.

It is undesirable to give a salad dressed with mayonnaise to children, after all, this is a rather fatty sauce, and it can adversely affect the digestive system. For children, the salad can be seasoned with sour cream or unsweetened yogurt. There is another option: yogurt is mixed with soy sauce. This dressing will make the salad lighter.