Almost every Russian loves an ordinary salad"Olivier", made from such inexpensive ingredients as green peas, doctor's sausage, boiled potatoes, carrots, chicken eggs and pickled cucumbers.
The recipe for this delicious snack was coinedin the second half of the 19th century by Lucien Olivier - a famous French chef. He settled in Moscow and in 1860 on Trubnaya Square opened a first-class restaurant called "The Hermitage". It is believed that it was Lucien who came up with a great snack, which became a real work of art.
The French cook zealously kept a secret recipepreparing your own key meal. Initially Olivier submitted it as follows. Cooked fillets of partridges and hazel grouses were shifted by layers of jelly made from broth, and placed in the center of the dish. Around were laid cooked crayfish neck and slices of tongue. All this "beauty" was poured with spicy, lightly sauce (mayonnaise of own production). The dish was decorated with a composition of boiled potatoes, quail eggs and gherkins.
There are a huge number of variations of thisdishes. Modern salad "Olivier" is otherwise called "Russian". Modified for real Russian realities, the salad has lost its sophistication and has become a very common snack, the taste of which is familiar to everyone from childhood. Meat of partridges and grouse was replaced by inexpensive boiled sausage. Cancer necks, veal tongue, black caviar and were completely excluded from the recipe. Instead they began to add boiled carrots and canned peas. Of course, the modern modification is delicious, but a little "boring". Therefore, we will tell you how to make a delicious snack, using the recipe for an old salad "Olivier".
For mayonnaise sauce, you need these components:
While hazel grouses are being prepared, we will study the language. Wash it and cook it for two hours, adding carrots, onion, salt and spices to the broth. After the due time we will get grouse and veal tongue out of the water. Cool the meat and clean it. With the birds we remove the skin, bones, leaving only the fillets. The tongue is cut into small pieces. Now cook crayfish until ready, we pull it out of the water, cool it and clean it. Next in turn are potatoes and eggs. We boil them, cool them and clean them.
Tell us how to prepare a real salad"Olivie". We select for a snack a deep bowl. We tear it and put salad leaves into it. We clean fresh cucumbers from the skin and cut them into cubes. Marinated cornichons and capers are crushed. We put everything in a salad bowl. We also place the prepared veal tongue and the chopped meat of grouse. Quail eggs shred on small pieces.
We leave while our dish alone and domayonnaise sauce. Raw yolks, mustard and salt are disturbed by a whisk. With a thin stream, we pour olive oil to these ingredients, carefully kneading the mass until it thickens. Add to the sauce vinegar, ground pepper and garlic powder. Everything, mayonnaise is ready.
If you want to pamper your household with a delicious dish, prepare a salad "Olivier". The real French recipe is this. To create this culinary masterpiece you will need the following products:
Recipe for an old salad "Olivier" suggestsuse of special salad dressing, for the preparation of which you will need olive oil - 100 ml, egg yolks - 3 pcs., vinegar wine - 2 tsp. You also need lemon juice - 2 tsp, Dijon mustard - 1 tsp, salt and pepper to taste.
Veal tongue wash and boil for 1.5-2hours in salted water. Then cool it and cut into small pieces. Chop the salted and fresh cucumber (without the skin), as well as the olives. Canned canola cuts in large pieces, you can in two parts. In a dry frying pan, lightly brown the capers. All ingredients are placed in a deep container and gently mix.
Everything, almost ready for our salad "Olivier". An ancient recipe assumes the preparation of an original mayonnaise dressing. In a bowl, beat whisk egg yolks, adding salt, mustard, and pepper to them. Pour in the olive oil while continuing to beat. Then add lemon juice and wine vinegar. Pour the sauce over the salad. Serve the dish to the table, decorated with egg whites with caviar, chives, champignons, lightly fried in a frying pan, and cancer cervix. Bon Appetit!
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