What is the difference between Olivier salad and Winter salad? Favorite salad recipes

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

Every modern family and a single Russian person is well aware of salads "Olivier" and "Winter". How are they different? What are the classic recipes for these dishes? This and more in this article.

Description

The basic salad of the New Year's feast is everyone's favorite "Olivier". The Winter salad recipe is a bit similar. Quite simple ingredients that, combined with each other, create a special symphony of taste, and also look very picturesque on any table: New Year's or dinner.

The Olivier recipe is well known to both the wise hostess and the teenage schoolboy. Although each family has its own special zest that allows you to create a unique version of your favorite dish.

But not many people know that the real Olivier salad recipe, which was first prepared by the French culinary specialist Lucien Olivier in Moscow at the Hermitage restaurant (60s of the 19th century), is absolutely not the same as Slavic people know it peoples now.

History

Chef Olivier is veryHe liked to improvise in the culinary field: to create new dishes, experimenting with ingredients. And so the incredibly delicious salad-cocktail "Olivier" was born.

In this dish, the main components were laid out in layers. And in the middle of the topmost one, a small hole was made, in which a slide of finely chopped pickles, boiled eggs and potatoes, capers was placed. Especially for the salad, Monsieur Olivier came up with a dressing that completed this - divinely delicious - composition.

But gradually the main ingredients of the dish became difficult to get on the shelves of Russian stores. And so they were replaced with those that were on sale. The Russians added more peas, boiled carrots, an apple, and so on. And the game was replaced with sausage.

So a new version of the Olivier salad - "Winter" was born. What is the difference and recipes will be discussed further.

Olivier original

For 1 kilogram of salad, close to that prepared by the famous French chef, you need:

• Pickled cucumber - 1 piece.
• Meat hazel grouse - 0.5 pieces.
• Olives - 4 pieces.
• Potatoes - 3 pieces.
• Cancerous cervix - 3 pieces.
• Lettuce - 4 pieces.
• Mayonnaise sauce - 1.5 tablespoons.

Cooking

Cut into even strips the pulp of fried hazel grouse, boiled potatoes and cucumbers. Mix ingredients.

Add olives (or capers). Season with mayonnaise sauce. Cool in the refrigerator and put in a crystal salad bowl. Decoratecrayfish necks (boiled), herbs. Serve cold.

Meat of hazel grouse can be replaced with chicken, veal, partridge. And pickles are gherkins.

Russian Olivier Recipe

Modern salad is prepared with the following ingredients:

• Potatoes - 4 pieces.
• Eggs - 5 pieces.
• Pickles - 3 pieces.
• Boiled sausage - 0.400 kg.
• Canned peas - 1 can.
• Onion - 1 piece.
• Greens - 20 g.
• Mayonnaise - 0.200 kg.

Cooking

Delicious and loved by many salad is quite simple to make: cut boiled potatoes and eggs, cucumbers and sausage into small or large cubes. Top with canned peas (no liquid).

To improve the taste, it is recommended to add chopped onions and herbs to the dish. Use mayonnaise or mayonnaise sauce as a dressing.

Olivier salad recipe

An original and tender dish is obtained by adding slightly s alted salmon (or salmon).

Ingredients

• Potatoes - 2 pieces.
• Eggs - 3 pieces.
• Pickles - 2 pieces.
• Salmon slightly s alted - 0.200 kg.
• Canned peas - 0.100 kg.
• Onion - 1 piece.
• Greens - 20 g.
• Mayonnaise - 0.150 kg.
• Red caviar – 20g

Cooking

Cut into even cubes: boiled potatoes and eggs, salmon, cucumbers. pour out toingredients peas (no liquid).

Chop the onion and herbs finely. Add to salad. Season with mayonnaise, cool.

Serve in a salad bowl, garnish with red caviar on top (see photo above).

Winter Salad

How is it different from Olivier? Some ingredients are replaced with others or new components are added to slightly modify the familiar dish.

For example, there is a version of the salad, where boiled meat or tongue is added to the sausage, and seasoned with a special sauce.

There is also a recipe for salad "Winter" with chicken and mushrooms or vegetables (the so-called "Winter Vitamin") and others.

Let's consider several options.

Winter Salad. Classic recipe

Just by replacing some ingredients or adding new ones, you can make another salad - "Winter". How is it different from Olivier? Classic salad "Winter" is prepared from the following ingredients:

• Potatoes - 8 pieces.
• Carrots - 4 pieces.
• Eggs - 6 pieces.
• Pickled cucumbers - 5 pieces.
• Boiled tongue - 0.300 kg.
• Boiled sausage - 0, 200 kg.
• Canned peas - 0.200 kg.
• Onion - 1 piece.
• Lettuce - 5 pieces.
• Greens - 20 g.

Required for refueling:

• Mayonnaise - 0, 300 kg (can be replaced with yogurt or sour cream).
• Lemon juice - 2 tablespoons.
• French mustard - 1 tbsp.
• Garlic - 3 cloves.
• S alt, black pepper.

Cooking

Put in a salad bowl finely or coarsely diced: boiled tongue, potatoes, eggs and carrots, sausage, cucumbers.

Add peas (without liquid) and chopped onion with herbs.

Prepare the dressing (mix all the ingredients for this, pass the garlic through the garlic and add to the dressing). Dress salad with dressing.

Serve in beautiful bowls or use a round (square) shape to put servings on a flat plate.

Another version of the Winter salad

How it differs from Olivier has already been mentioned above - the addition of new ingredients. For example, chicken, mushrooms and cheese. And also the way of serving.

For this version of the cocktail salad (that is, puff) the following components are needed:

• Chicken fillet - 0.300 kg.
• S alted cucumbers - 6 pieces.
• Chicken eggs - 5 pieces.
• Mushrooms (champignons or others) - 0, 200 kg.
• Onion - 1 piece.
• Hard cheese - 0, 100 kg.
• Mayonnaise - 0.200 kg.

Cooking

Form the first level of boiled chicken fillet cubes, spread with mayonnaise. Grate cucumbers on a coarse grater, form the second level, also coat with mayonnaise.

Grate boiled peeled eggs on a coarse grater - this will be the third level, mayonnaise. Put lightly fried mushrooms and onions as the fourth level, mayonnaise.

And the last, fifth level, to make from cheese grated on a coarse grater. Refrigerate for 2 hours.

This, of course, is not quite a classic recipe for the Winter salad (how it differs from Olivier, it becomes clear from the set of products), but also a very tasty and desirable dish on any table.

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Thus, there can be an innumerable number of options for preparing Olivier salad. And every hostess, chef can make this dish original and tasty in their own way.