"Olivier" is one of the most beloved salads in Russia, without which a New Year's or other feast rarely goes. However, those who prepare it regularly should keep in mind that the Olivier salad is a fairly high-calorie dish.
Olivier recipe
Like any popular dish, Olivier salad has many cooking recipes that differ in both composition and proportions of the ingredients included in it. For example, the classic "Soviet" salad recipe includes boiled potatoes, boiled eggs, pickles, green peas, boiled sausage and mayonnaise.
However, the number of variations on the theme of this recipe is extremely large. So, for example, adherents of traditions, who claim that it is necessary to prepare this salad according to the recipe of its author - French chef Lucien Olivier, prefer to replace boiled sausage with boiled beef tongue, which was present in the original recipe.
And those who follow the figure and do not eat high-calorie foods prefer to refuse mayonnaise in this salad, replacing it with a less fatty dressing, for example, sour cream or yogurt-based sauce. In addition, a common way to reduce the calorie content of this salad among adherents of a healthy diet is to replace boiled sausage in its composition with chicken breast.
Calorie content "Olivier"
Obviously, the calorie content of Olivier salad directly depends on what ingredients were used in its preparation. As a result, the calorie content of a finished dish prepared according to different recipes can differ quite significantly, up to several times.
For example, the lightest version of a recipe that includes skinless chicken breast and a low-fat kefir dressing can provide a salad with no more than 100 calories per 100 g of finished product. The use of a fat sausage recipe with a caloric value of about 350 kcal per 100 g, a large amount of classic mayonnaise, which contains 67% fat, and other additional components can bring the total energy value of such a salad to 270 kcal per 100 g.
However, these calorie extremes are usually found in modified Olivier salad recipes. The calorie content of a dish prepared according to the "Soviet" recipe, as a rule, is about 200 kcal per 100 g of the finished product. Moreover, the specified amount of salad contains about 6-8 g of proteins, 15-17 g of fat and 6-10 g of carbohydrates, depending on the proportions of the ingredients used in its preparation.
