"Olivier" salad: recipe modern and original

Salad "Olivier" was an integral partfestive table of Russians in Soviet times. His popularity was due to the availability of all the ingredients of this salad. Most of them grew in the kitchen gardens, the rest could be bought without difficulty, again, all these ingredients were well kept all winter. By the way, that's why this salad is often called "Winter".

However, the history of this salad is mysterious andinteresting. He appeared in the 1860s. Its author was the French chef Lucien Olivier. Salad, the recipe of which the cook did not reveal to anyone, became the main dish in his tavern "The Hermitage" on the pipe square. In fact, this inn was a luxurious and expensive restaurant, with a truly palace decoration. The only difference from the restaurants of that time was that the waiters were not dressed in an indispensable dress coat, but in traditional Russian genital costumes.

The restaurant was very popularamong the nobles, merchants, and then merchants, as well as the creative intelligentsia. And along with the tavern, a delicious salad became popular, too. He became so popular that over time he was the reputation of the institution, and not vice versa.

Many cooks tried to guess the salad recipe, butnone of whom did not work. Only in 1904, after the death of Olivier, a salad, a recipe from memory was restored by one of the regulars of the Hermitage tavern and a famous gourmet, was revived, although he never received the previous popularity.

The original recipe for salad "Olivier" is lostforever. It remains to be content with what has been restored. According to this restored recipe, the following ingredients were included in the composition of the dish: boiled fowl meat, veal tongue, also boiled, black caviar, green salad leaves, crayfish or lobsters, pickles, soybean paste, capers and eggs. As a dressing for the salad, the Provençal sauce was used, which was prepared from vinegar, olive oil and egg yolks. Now you can afford to prepare a salad "Olivier", the original recipe of which is written above. The only thing that in our time no longer produce such a product as soybean paste. Instead, it is proposed to use canned white beans. In addition, it is very important to prepare the sauce yourself, and not to buy mayonnaise in the store. It is believed that it can ruin the whole taste of salad.

Where did the salad come from, which is stillis known in every home under the same name "Olivier" salad? His recipe has undergone a number of changes due to the fact that a series of wars and Soviet policy have made most of the products used in the original recipe scarce. And since you want to join the high kitchen, everyone, then these ingredients, if possible, were replaced by similar ones that were near at hand. So it turned out simple and affordable, and, in general, a delicious salad, which, however, does not go to any comparison with the original.

Nowadays, when the products are againaccessible, the Soviet recipe for salad "Olivier", in common parlance "Winter", fades into the background, as open space for experiments, people often try new recipes, in every way try to diversify the table. However, even now, "Olivier" is a salad, the recipe of which everyone knows and there are almost always products for it, which means that it can be a great help to the hostess if the guests come unexpectedly, without warning. And in those cases when there is no desire to tinker with new, untested recipes, you can always return to a classic salad.

And so, how and from what is now prepared a salad"Olivie"? It's very simple: boil 4 medium potatoes, carrots and 5 chicken eggs, and cut into cubes, in the same way cut 300 g of boiled sausage (or boiled meat), 3 salted or pickled cucumber and one medium onion. All the ingredients should be poured into a bowl, sprinkled with a jar of green peas and filled with mayonnaise. It remains only to guess in what order and in return what those or other ingredients in this salad were.

By the way, some gourmets prepare this salad withred fish and call it "Olivier in a royal way". The recipe is quite different: instead of boiled sausage, you need to take 300 g of red fish, and instead of canned peas used frozen. Before you put peas in a salad, it should be left for two minutes in boiling water.

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