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Russian Salad (Olivier)
Usually people outside of former-USSR call it Russian Salad, however its original name is Salad Olivier.
This salad was and maybe still is the most traditional dish for the home New Year celebration for russian people. Hope you will like it too.
Ingredients:
- 1lb of bologna
- 1 can (15 oz) of sweet peas
- 3 middle size potatoes
- 4-5 middle size carrots
- 5-6 eggs
- 1 bunch of green onions
- 1 bunch of fresh dill
- 5-6 middle size cucumbers (pickled with salt not with vinegar, that is important)
- Ground black pepper
- Salt by taste
- Mayonnaise by taste
How to make, step by step:
- Boil carrots and potatoes in advance and make sure they cool till room temperature when you start making the salad. Prepare hard boiled eggs in advance, let them to cool down to room temperature as well. Wash green onions and dill.
Russian Salad (Olivier) Recipe: Step 1
- Skin boiled potatoes and dice them into small cubes like it is shown on the photo below:
Russian Salad (Olivier) Recipe: Step 2
- Skin boiled carrots and dice them into the cubes of the same size you diced potatoes into:
Russian Salad (Olivier) Recipe: Step 3
- Put diced carrots and potatoes into big bowl:
Russian Salad (Olivier) Recipe: Step 4
- Open can with peas and remove liquid, add to the bowl:
Russian Salad (Olivier) Recipe: Step 5
- Peel eggs and dice them into the same size pieces as carrots and potatoes. Add the to the bowl:
Russian Salad (Olivier) Recipe: Step 6
- Dice bologna, add to the bowl:
Russian Salad (Olivier) Recipe: Step 7
- Dice pickled cucumbers. It is important to take cucumbers pickled with salt not with vinegar:
Russian Salad (Olivier) Recipe: Step 8
- Chop green onions and dill, add to the bowl:
Russian Salad (Olivier) Recipe: Step 9
- Mix everything, season with ground black pepper and add salt if you feel it is needed. Add mayonnaise and mix everything again. Put salad to the bowl you want to serve it in. Your Russian Salad Olivier is ready to be served!
Russian Salad (Olivier)
I love this salad have been making it for years
I dont add bologna, or dill but I add cilantro instead as well I use lots of black pepper
my sisters make this same salad with simulated crab sticks
it tastes great
when making this russian salad, how do you pickle cucumbers with salt instead of vinegar?
I buy already pickled cucumbers, sometimes grocery stores have them in big buckets, most of russian/ukrainian shops have them too.
Yep, I keep forgetting about black pepper, it is important! Thanks for mentioning this, I’ve updated the recipe.
BTW, if you like simulated crab sticks, you may also like “Crab Sticks and Rice Salad” (http://www.enjoyyourcooking.com/salads/crab-sticks-salad.html ), it is one of my favorites
Hi
People in my coutry usually add one apple and a spoon of mustard. NO dill !!
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Dill and onions are strictly optional, as are many other ingredients: chicken, cabbage, cilantro, parsley, apple, …
Also try fresh cucumber instead of pickles, you may find it tastes better that way.
But the most important ingredient is the mayonnaise. Regular one sold in Western Europe or North America will ruin the dish irreparably. Either use a Russian mayonnaise, or make your own, from olive oil, vinegar, sugar and salt, it’s very easy.
I agree on mayonnaise part.
Kirill, fresh cucumber in Olivier? Only pickled! BTW, doktorskaya is much better than bologna
if you can find it, then doktorskaya is much better, agree; but then isn’t doktorskaya some kind on bologna itself?
no carrots in Olivier salad!!! NO carrots! Olivier would flip in his grave (
Great you said that, ABSOLUTELY NO CARROT’S, THANKS FOR NOTICED!
I am originally from Finland & since a little kid become addicted to these open sandwich with Russian Salad!
In US it’s hard to find from anywhere, & or not really happy about it taste, will be going to prepare my own, over the weekend!
All you have great time with this taste Salad Olivier, actually not so Russian Salad, (nothing with but great to know the origin) as I’ve learned since day first!
Again, which by the way, I learned from this great Igor…!
All the best to all you guys!
How do you make russian flavoured mayonnaise from scratch?
Tried this recipe the other day, but didn’t taste like the ones I usually have in the Russian restaurant. I think mayonnaise is the problem.
Didn’t make may from scratch for ages…
2 egg yolks, about 2 cups of oil (sunflower or olive), 0.5 teaspoon of salt, 0.5 teaspoon of sugar, 0.5 teaspoon of mustard, 2-3 tablespoons of lemon juice diluted with boiled and cooled down water to taste (or vinegar diluted as well).
Combine egg yolks at room temperature, salt, sugar and mustard in mixing bowl and emulsify.
Start adding oil (it should be at room temperature as well), very slow at beginning, teaspoon by teaspoon, make sure you mix in one before adding another.
Once oil is in, mix in lemon juice (or vinegar) till the consistency you like.
Something like this.
i love it sooooo much but i use crab
в моей семье оливье делают с оливками вместо соленого огурца, тоже очень не плохо
my family do olivier with green olives, no cucumber
Are you from Russia?
In Slovenia we use the cucumbers and a spoon of senf also!
I am from Russia/Ukraine, and we usually had pickled cucumbers. I never tried it with olives, but I am sure it will taste good as well.
By senf you mean mustard? I usually put mustard to okroshka, which is same what similar to Olivier… just liquid
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I just made this and it came out pretty good. I omitted potatoes, used 1/2 fresh cucumbers and 1/2 pickles, and 1/2 sour cream to 1/2 mayo. Came out great! After reading the reviews, I realize that if I added one apple, it would’ve made it absolutely incredible…oh well, this is a good excuse to make it again. Next time – I’ll use chicken and toss in a granny smith.
I don’t like onions, but I dutifully added one whole bunch as the recipe required, and I am glad I did. The salad wouldn’t have been the same without it. Thanks!
Potatoes are main filler in this salad, can’t even imagine how it tastes w/o it. But I agree: apples are good addition, as well as chicken is a good substitute for bologna.
This looks nasty but i have a FEELING it will taste okkk… :/
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LOVE this salad and miss it so much! Olivier might roll in his grave with the addition of carrots, but this is usually how my friends in Kyiv made it. Let’s just say it’s the Ukrainian version! Great site, thanks for recipes!! Can’t wait to eat this again!!
This is the russian salad recipe as I know it, everybody is free to make changes and modifications how they please
. I am actually not sure why everybody is objecting to carrots, but not to the missing “grouse, veal tongue, caviar, lettuce, crayfish tails, capers, smoked duck” which wikipedia lists as possible ingredients in the original recipe invented by Lucien Olivier (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_salad ).
To my opinion carrots are they important in this salad, and it will not taste the same w/o them. But that is just my opinion.
@ Julia,
thanks for your kind words! Please come back for more recipes, I hope you will like them.
Heh, in Poland we call this salad a “Russian salad” (I never heard about the “Salad Olivier”). Carrots are always added – like potatoes, they are the main filler. And they add a necessary sweetness to the salad. Like “Polish girl” wrote above, we also add an apple and a spoon of mustard. But no dill. My grandma also adds a teaspoon of sugar, but then only half an apple (which btw. has to be a sweet apple). A very healthy salad, and still so tasty!!! I love it!!!
:):)
“Salad Olivier” is a name this salad is called inside of Russia (and couple more post-USSR countries), variations of it are sometimes called “Meat Salad” or “Salad Stolichnyj”. “Russian Salad” is the name of it used outside of post-USSR area.
wow, it,s to easy
I was born in russia but I live in the united states, and the way my mom taught me to make it was:
10 Eggs
10 Sausages
6-8 medium potatoes
2-3 large cucumbers
2 Cans of Peas
1/2 an Onion
Mayonnaise
salt and pepper
chop and mix all ingredients together, add desired amount of mayonnaise and salt and pepper to taste. I prefer this way. I absolutely love Olivier (or at least I love my version) and I make it every thanksgiving, christmas, new years and my birthday. just thought I would share my version on here
A few notes to the recipe:
First off, if you can’t get excellent cucumbers pickled with salt (it’s very hard to get them in fact) – take vinegar pickled ones, so you won’t spoil the taste of salad, moreover a lot of people prefer marinated cucumbers to salted ones.
Second, what about meat: yes, it’s common to add bologna, but chicken, veal or beef tounge would give the salad a milder taste, a better texture and would also keep it original.
Prepared capers are extremely important (once again, they were in the original recipe created in Russian Empire, they are popular nowadays as well), they just make it taste more special.
About greens – dill and onion are not a must, but they can be used as well as finely chopped apples or fresh cucumbers.
Enjoy
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