Salad: classic recipe, history, composition, Olivier, cooking, salad ingredients.

Before giving the classic recipe and tell me how to cook and decorate the famous and delicious French salad, which we have long been considered his, let me remind you what is the story of Olivier salad origin.

At the beginning about the one whose name is famous salad. In his book "Moscow and Muscovites" Gilyarovskii wrote that "in Moscow, was considered particularly chic when dinner is ready cook Frenchman Olivier, already famous for his invention of a salad, which subsequently named after him. Without salad and dinner is not dinner. "

But the secret of the salad chef Frenchman to anyone and did not open. As foodies and chefs tried, it did not go at them to "split" the cook. It seems to be doing the same, but something is still not as it turns out. It is believed that wily cook Frenchman carried his secret with him ... But even in cookbooks of the early twentieth century, the famous recipe salad appeared. Perhaps the history of culinary arts is not retained all the subtleties of the classical recipe, but in the present embodiment, it is also very tasty.

How to prepare a salad

To prepare salad classic take the meat home game or poultry. But there is a recipe where the bird is replaced by cooked meat, tongue, ham or shrimp. Of course, this done, you can, but in this case, a different salad. No worse and no better, just - the other! But we are sure one hundred percent, it is still delicious, although it was a new and original. Absolutely not recommended for use in the preparation of salad instead of chicken sausage. Although these recipes also occur. But because the sausage itself is already cold snack and eat it better by itself. Gourmets will find that it does not fit well with the salad ingredients. To prepare Olivier recommend using not salted, and pickled cucumbers. It is therefore considered that the salad - a winter salad. A classic recipe Olivier provides and apples. It is better to take the sweet varieties, but fit and sour-sweet. Apples and cucumbers recommend peel. Prepare the salad and fresh cucumbers. This option is ideal when you cook hash.

In the preparation of salad, as well as any other salad, it is important to keep the right proportion. So whatever the cook salad using a classic recipe, take the following ingredients:

6 potatoes;

3 carrots;

2 onions;

1-2 small pickled cucumbers;

1 apple;

200 g of boiled chicken;

cup of canned green peas;

3 eggs;

450-500 g of mayonnaise;

salt and pepper to taste.

The composition of the recipe is referring to medium-sized vegetables.

All vegetables and eggs are boiled and cleaned from skin.

And another prerequisite of success - not too lazy to cut smaller all the ingredients of salad. Chopped vegetables gently mix with mayonnaise. Mayonnaise can be bought, but you can do at home.

The result will be that your guests will say that you have the most delicious salad Olivier and you will not regret about the effort!

Nowadays, Olivier salad recipe has a winter and summer. "What's the difference?" - you ask. difference in cucumbers. Includes solenenkie recipe - get a winter salad. Use fresh cucumbers - we get old.

How to decorate a salad

Options feeding lettuce - the sea. We spread its high slide and decorate slices pickles or parsley leaves, slices or pieces of chicken apples. It can be a total salad bowl and can and portions ...

For New Year's Olivier - its decoration. In a word, turn imagination and create your culinary masterpiece! Here are a few photos as possible to decorate and serve a festive table, our famous salad:

And another little trick - how to calculate so that the salad was enough for all guests? But here's the trick. When calculating the right amount of lettuce the basis of a potato - it should take as much as should be the consumers. The rest of the ingredients take proportions as indicated above.

Bon Appetit!!!

And, interesting stories and, as always, spare tips and original salad recipe from Olivier extraordinary master channel EdaHDTelevision. Watch the video-recipe.