Russian salad or olivier salad
The Russian salad or Olivier salad is a salad composed of diced vegetables and other foods bound by a mayonnaise dressing.
Called “Olivier salad” in Russia, Ukraine, Iran and the United States, this salad was invented in 1860 by Lucien Olivier, Belgian chef of the famous Moscow restaurant L’Ermitage, Troubnaïa Square.
Kept secret by Lucien Olivier, his assistant one day managed to reconstruct the recipe, which he sold to several publishing houses. Russian salad is now part of Russian culinary traditions. The fame of this salad then spread to France, where many Russian aristocrats met, then England, Italy, Spain (ensaladilla rusa), Iran…
| Difficulty level: easy |
| Preparation time: 15 min |
| Rest time: 3 hours |
| Cooking time: 25 min |
| Total time: 40 min + 3 h (rest) |
| Ingredients: 6 people |
| 1 piece of cooked ham |
| 6 potatoes |
| 3 eggs |
| 1 can of peas |
| 1 can of peas and carrots |
| 1 cucumber |
| 6 Russian pickles |
| 30 g of mayonnaise |
| 15 g of fresh cream |
| dill |
| salt and pepper |
Preparation :
- Cook the potatoes in a pan of salted water.
- Cook the eggs separately in vinegar water.
- Peel the eggs and potatoes and leave to cool.
- In a large bowl, cut the potatoes and eggs into cubes.
- Wash, peel and dice the cucumber, ham and gherkins and add them to the bowl of potatoes and eggs.
- Drain the peas and carrots.
- Cut the carrots into slices into the large bowl, add the peas.
- In a bowl, add the mayonnaise, crème fraîche, 10 ml of Russian cucumber juice. To mix together. Salt and pepper.
- Add the sauce to the large bowl and the coarsely chopped dill and mix.
- Store in the refrigerator for 3 or 4 hours before serving.
- Taste!