Olivier salad: simple salad recipe you will love

Ingredients

• Serves 4.
• Cooking time 35 minutes.
• Preparation time 15 minutes

For the salad you will need:

• 2-3 medium potatoes boiled
• 1-2 eggs hard boiled
• 1 medium carrot boiled
• 7-8 cornichons
• 2-3 tablespoons of pickled peppers (optional)
• 3-4 sausages or a cup of chopped ham or chicken breast
• 1/4 white onion
• 1 pinch of salt
• 1 pinch of black pepper
• 2-3 tablespoons of canned peas
• 3 tablespoons of mayo (light)

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Preparation

• This is a traditional recipe for the parties and holidays in Slavic countries. No one knows where it came to former Soviet countries from,(we were a huge country with closed borders for decades), but this was the main salad of every celebration in almost every family for decades.
  
  I cook this salad very rarely and mainly in autumn and winter, as I consider this salad too conservative and even boring to cook it very often. I always experiment with the ingredients as it?s always good to have a different taste of the same well known dish.
  Step 1: wash and boil the potato and carrot. Boil for 20 minutes of until cooked i.e. soft. Boil an egg until cooked.
  
  Step 2: Peel a potato and a carrot. Shell an egg(s)
  
  Step 3 : Chop in small chunks potato, carrot, sausage (or any meat you plan to incorporate in a dish), egg. Finely chop the onion (1/4 of it)
  
  Chop cornichons and pickled pepper, mix everything.
  
  Step 4: Add salt,pepper and canned peas. Dress with mayo , you can add some dill you you like.
  
  Serve cold.
  
  ***Tip from Helen*** The meat may also be substituted with mushrooms. canned in water or fried mushrooms, the taste will be different. Pickled peppers aren?t a must.For dressing you may combine mayo and sour cream or mayo and ranch dressing. Don?t make the dressing too sour though.***
  
  Enjoy!
  Sincerely,
  Helen
  http://www.helenscooking.info