Ingredients
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500 g of Boiled beefYou can use more meat
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4 Potatoes
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5 Egg(s)
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3 Carrot
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1 can of Canned peas
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4 Pickled cucumber
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1 AppleRed apple
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200 g of Mayonnaise
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to taste Salt
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to taste Grounded black pepper
Directions
This New Year’s Eve, we stuck to a minimalist gastronomic scenario, namely, with Olivier Salad, Herring Under a Fur Coat and champagne. I caught myself thinking that the strange taste of Olivier with champagne does indeed clearly associate it with the New Year. That’s what it means to be born in the USSR. 🙂
Well, let’s expand our horizons. Salads similar to the Olivier salad are made all over Europe and outside of it. In the Netherlands, for example, they make Huzarensalade with boiled beef, which is similar in composition to Olivier or, rather, the Stolichny salad. Here the story goes that the Hussars invented the dish. As light cavalry on the move, they cut up leftover dinner, usually ham or meat and boiled vegetables and took it with them on the road. Hussars’ salad is still something the Dutch take with them on picnics or on the road when the long-awaited summer sunshine comes out.
As I said, Huzarensalade is similar in composition to Olivier salad, but there are slight nuances. Northern cuisine likes to combine salty with sour and sweet, which is why in the Hussars’ salad, we will find a fresh apple, preferably with red skin. 🙂 Also, for a less dense consistency, the mayonnaise for the salad is slightly diluted with pickle brine. The cucumbers are pickled, which means they are sour and sweet. Eggs can be mixed in with the salad or served as a decoration next to it. The rest of the salad is similar.
Bon Appétit!
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Steps
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Boil the potatoes and carrots in their skins, aka jackets, until soft. Let them cool, then peel and dice them into medium 8 mm cubes. Dice boiled meat into the same size cubes. Then, dice pickles into slightly smaller cubes. Next, clean the apple from the seeds and leave the skin. Dice them the same way as pickles. |
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Dilute a little mayonnaise with cucumber brine to get a more liquid dressing. |
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Now dress the salad mixture generously with mayonnaise dressing, salt and pepper, then mix it well. The salad should not be dry. You can add eggs to the salad or serve them as its decoration. If you are mixing eggs into the salad, dice them into medium cubes or use an egg slicer and mix them in briefly. We add the eggs at the end to avoid destroying them entirely by a long mixing. |
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Place the ready salad into the fridge overnight. For festive serving, you can put the salad on a flat dish, brush it with mayonnaise and decorate it with eggs and tomatoes. For a picnic option, just take it with you and enjoy. :) |
