Orthodox fasting can last from one day to several weeks and cover both widely celebrated dates, such as the New Year, for example, and family dates, such as a birthday. At the heart of the holiday salads is a traditionally indigestible mixture containing eggs, meat or poultry, cheese and mayonnaise. However, you can easily eliminate these ingredients for a beautiful, hearty holiday meal.
Olivier salad
Olivier salad for an older generation or middle-aged person is an indispensable attribute of the festive table. What is New Year's without a bowl of Olivier?
The classic salad includes boiled chicken meat. The Soviet version of "Olivier" contains boiled boiled sausage. Both the one and the other component cannot be called lean. The same applies to boiled eggs. Try making a salad without using these ingredients.
The scope for imagination and creativity is very extensive here. Just ignore eggs, as well as chicken meat. You can go for vegan cheese or vegan cooked sausage, or fresh or stewed mushrooms.
Classic mayonnaise based on chicken or quail eggs is not suitable for preparing lean salad "Olivier".
You can use aquafaba to make a lean sauce.
Aquafaba is a concentrated broth of legumes.
Once you open a can of canned green peas, pour the available liquid into the can, which is usually about 50 ml. Add a teaspoon of lemon juice or apple cider vinegar, salt, sugar, and black pepper to taste. Whisk until the mixture turns white and increases in volume, gradually, without stopping whisking, add 100 ml of vegetable oil.
In total, the process of making lean mayonnaise from aquafaba takes no more than five minutes.
Otherwise, prepare the Olivier salad in the traditional way.
Boil carrots and potatoes in a peel, peel. Cut into small cubes.
Also cut the pickles and apple into small cubes.
Add chopped green onions and canned green peas.
Season with salt to taste and season with mayonnaise.
You can use raw carrots or pumpkin instead of boiled carrots, but you will need to grind these vegetables on a coarse grater.
Raw food version of Olivier salad
There is also a raw food version of the Olivier salad.
To prepare it, take raw vegetables: celery root or turnips, cucumbers, carrots or pumpkin, an apple. Grate these foods on a coarse grater.
Add sprouted mung beans or fresh or frozen green peas, raw mushrooms.
As mayonnaise, you can use pre-soaked nuts or seeds, mashed with water, salt, lemon juice and spices.
Fur coat
Another festive salad from childhood is herring under a fur coat.
There are days of Lent when fish is allowed for consumption, but this product is usually excluded as well.
Take nori or wakame - these are seaweed that will add a specific flavor. Mayonnaise for this salad is best prepared on the basis of linseed oil, which has a viscous fishy flavor.
Boil beets, potatoes, carrots in the skins. Peel and grate on a coarse grater. Don't mix vegetables.
Coarsely grate pickles and vegan cheese. Peel the onion and cut into cubes.
Grind dry seaweed using a coffee grinder.
Prepare mayonnaise using aquafaba. At the end of cooking, add algae powder to the mayonnaise.
Put prepared food in layers in a salad bowl, greasing each layer with mayonnaise.
To reduce the time it takes to soak the salad, you can stir the vegetables separately with mayonnaise and lay in layers in a salad bowl. In this case, you do not need to grease each layer with sauce.
The top layer of the salad is beets. Brush with mayonnaise on top and decorate as desired.
Raw food "Fur coat"
There is also a raw food version of the salad.
Grate raw beets, carrots, turnips for Korean salads. Chop the onion.
To make the sauce, mix finely grated tomatoes with sesame paste and seaweed powder.
Put the vegetables in a salad bowl in layers, smearing each layer with sauce.
The vinaigrette
Boil beets, potatoes, and carrots. Peel and cut into cubes.
Also dice the pickles and onions.
Mix vegetables, add canned or home-cooked white beans, sauerkraut.
Season the salad with a special sauce made from a mixture of vegetable oil and apple cider vinegar. Season with salt to taste.
Let the salad sit for a few hours.
Beetroot salad with prunes
To prepare this dish, beets can be boiled or baked, or used raw.
Peel the root vegetable and grate for Korean salads.
Add dried or fresh prunes, cut into strips, and season with mayonnaise made from aquafaba, vinegar and vegetable oil.
