In many families, Olivier salad is associated with the New Year holidays. Probably, every housewife has her own favorite recipe for making an appetizer. Some ladies prepare a dish with sausage, others add boiled meat or beef tongue to the salad.
If you are tired of Olivier salad with sausage prepared according to the classic recipe, then pay attention to the dishes that will be described below. Snacks will surprise you with unusual ingredients, and cook them, you will be amazed by the spicy taste.
Olivier salad with smoked mackerel
Thanks to the addition of smoked fish to the dish, the Olivier salad acquires spicy notes. For a delicious snack, take:
- 2 boiled potatoes;
- 1 boiled carrot;
- 1 hard-boiled chicken egg;
- 1 smoked mackerel;
- ½ cans of canned peas;
- ½ large green apple;
- ½ onion heads (can be replaced with green onions);
- salt, spices, herbs and mayonnaise to taste.
Stages of cooking salad "Olivier" with smoked mackerel:
- Peel potatoes and carrots, cut into small cubes.
- Cut the onions into thin half rings. To remove bitterness from a vegetable, pour boiling water over it, and then cold water. After such manipulations, the taste of the product will become softer. If you took green onions, then wash them, dry them, cut them into rings.
- Combine the prepared ingredients in a deep plate, add the peas there, after draining the water from it.
- It's time to do some mackerel. Carefully cut the fish along the back, remove the ridge, remove small bones. Peel the mackerel pulp from the peel, cut or pick the prepared fish with your hands, send it to a bowl with the other components of the salad.
- Wash the apple, remove the peel, peel the core and pits. Cut the fruit into small pieces. Add to salad.
- Stir the finished dish, add salt and spices if necessary, season with mayonnaise. Grate a boiled chicken egg on top of the appetizer before serving.
This is how the Olivier salad with smoked mackerel is prepared. In the future, you can vary the amount of ingredients added to the dish. For example, some housewives like to have a lot of potatoes in the salad, while others prefer to clearly feel the apples. It's a matter of taste; tweak the recipe as you see fit until you have your perfect Olivier salad.
Olivier salad without meat ingredient
Probably everyone knows how to cook Olivier salad with sausage, but only a few people know how to make an appetizer without adding a meat component. Therefore, we will consider a recipe for preparing a lean dish.
To make an Olivier salad without meat, you will need:
- 6 boiled potatoes;
- 1 boiled carrot;
- 200 g fresh champignons;
- 1 avocado
- lettuce leaves or Chinese cabbage - 5 sheets;
- 100 g pitted olives;
- 5 small pickles;
- salt, spices to taste;
- mayonnaise can be taken plain or lean.
Stages of cooking:
- Peel potatoes and carrots boiled in peel, cut into small cubes.
- Wash the mushrooms, dry, cut. Fry the mushrooms or boil until tender.
- Wash the avocado, remove the peel from it, remove the pit, cut the clean fruit into slices.
- Remove the olives from the jar, let the excess liquid drain, cut the product into thin rings.
- Wash lettuce leaves, dry, cut into thin strips, put in a deep bowl. Place all prepared ingredients in the same bowl. Cool the mushrooms before adding to the salad. Season the dish with mayonnaise and you're done.
Lenten salad "Olivier" has a very unusual taste, perfectly saturates and may well take pride of place on the festive table.
