Step-by-step recipe for Christmas salad based on Olivier, cooking technology. Video recipes.
Olivier is one of the simplest salads. For a long time it was cooked mainly for the holidays, but then it became a part of the everyday menu and for most people it became something familiar. However, there are no fewer fans of this dish. It's all about an interesting and organic combination of soft and crunchy ingredients, as well as a combination of different tastes - spicy, sour, salty.
To make a Christmas salad based on Olivier as tasty as possible, all vegetables, meat component and eggs should be cut into the same shape - a cube, and the size of this cube should not be larger than a pea. Some chefs recommend using not only mayonnaise for dressing, but its mixture with sour cream. So the finished dish will become less high-calorie and more useful. It is noteworthy that a large amount of mayonnaise can hide the taste of each ingredient, so do not add too much of it.
This recipe for Christmas salad based on Olivier with a photo illustrates the principle of decorating a dish for the New Year holidays.
See also the preparation of a festive Christmas wreath vinaigrette.
- Calorie content per 100 g - 162 kcal.
- Servings - 6
- Cooking time - 30 minutes
Ingredients:
- Fillet - 500 g
- Eggs - 4 pcs.
- Potatoes - 4 pcs.
- Pickled cucumber - 4-5 pcs.
- Green peas - 1 can
- Mayonnaise - 100 g
- Mustard - 1-2 tablespoons
- Carrots for decoration
- Apple for decoration
Step-by-step preparation of Olivier-based Christmas salad
1. To prepare salad based on Olivier, we prepare the necessary products. Boil the chicken fillet in salted water with the addition of bay leaves, remove from the broth and cool. Boil the potatoes in their uniforms until tender, cool and peel. Cook the eggs hard-boiled, place them in cold water, and then peel them. Separate the white from 3 eggs and set aside for decoration. Grind all three ingredients with a knife in the form of small cubes.
2. Next, for a Christmas salad based on Olivier, grind the pickled cucumber, put it in a colander so that the excess liquid is glass. After a few minutes, along with canned green peas, we send them to a container with chicken fillets, potatoes and eggs.
3. Top with mustard and mayonnaise. Mix all ingredients until evenly distributed. If the potatoes lose their juiciness during cooking, then a little more mayonnaise may be required, but the mass should hold its shape well.
4. For Olivier-based Christmas salad, choose a flat, square dish. On it we lay out the salad blank in the shape of a square in an even layer.
5. Rub the remaining egg whites on a fine grater, divide into 2 parts. We paint one part blue or blue using food coloring. It can be replaced with fresh purple cabbage juice. We spread the resulting mass on half the surface of the salad. This is how we decorate the night sky on top of the Olivier salad.
6. Put the second part of the uncolored protein on the rest of the salad. This will be an imitation of snow.
7. Carrots can be used raw, but it is much better to pre-boil or bake them in the oven. This will make it easier to cut stars out of it. Plus, the taste of boiled carrots will go much better with the base. Using a pastry syringe, draw snow-covered Christmas trees and the outline of the future house.
8. The next decor for Christmas salad based on Olivier is made from apple or radish. We cut the appropriate ingredient into plates and cut out parts of the house from them, then put them on a dish. We draw the smoke. And we send the salad to the refrigerator until it is served.
9. Olivier-based Christmas salad is ready! Such a delicious and beautiful dish will certainly decorate the Christmas and New Year tables and create a festive mood.
See also the video recipe:
Olivier with chicken
