It's amazing what an abundance of various dishes these days! The menu of restaurants of any level includes salads from fish, chicken, beef, mushrooms, as well as "Winter" salad, the recipe is classic and unchanged. Often, unusual ingredients are added to it, which add spice to the dish. But his classic recipe has not changed for several decades.
"Winter salad
Before preparing a winter salad, the recipe involuntarily wants to be compared with the Olivier recipe. If you look at the origin of these dishes, then both of them came to our tables from the Soviet Union, and their progenitor was the author's Olivier salad. But since it included expensive products, our compatriots replaced them with more affordable ones in order to save money. The option with doctor's sausage is the classic winter salad recipe.
Let's compare the composition of salads "Winter" and "Olivier". Winter Salad Ingredients:
- classic boiled potatoes;
- green pea;
- boiled eggs;
- pickles;
- doctor's sausage;
- for dressing - mayonnaise.
For "Olivier" you need more apples, which make the dish softer in taste.
Cooking Ingredients
Classic winter salad will require the presence of onions and boiled carrots. There is also an option to replace boiled sausage with boiled chicken or beef - this is a winter salad with meat. Pickled cucumbers can be replaced with barrel ones. A variety of fresh herbs will make the dish more vitamin. For greater benefit, vegetables are best steamed.
In this regard, the dish is more democratic, and its preparation allows the hostess to “turn on” her imagination. The salad turns out very tasty and at the same time satisfying. It rightfully deserves the status of an independent dish. But on the table, potato dishes go well with it, as well as baked duck with apples and other lighter vegetable snacks.
Classic winter salad recipe:
The following ingredients are needed for the sauce:
- mustard - 1-2 tbsp. l.;
- natural yogurt - 4 tbsp. l.;
- lemon juice - 1.5 tbsp. l.;
- garlic - 3 cloves.
First, thoroughly wash the vegetables and boil them in their skins. It is very important at the same time to ensure that the vegetables are not digested. After boiling water, cook them for 20-25 minutes over medium heat. Cool to room temperature and peel off the skin. Then we clean the bulb. Onions should not be too much.
After the onion is chopped, put it in a separate container and pour boiling water over it. After a few minutes, the water should be drained. This method allows you to rid the onion of excessive bitterness. Simultaneously with vegetables, you need to boil the eggs, and then cool them with cold running water and peel them. The preparation of the ingredients is over, now let's start cutting.
It would seem that there is nothing easier: plan, mix all the ingredients thoroughly, add mayonnaise - and you're done. But the classic recipe implies that you need to cut all the ingredients into cubes. Be sure to observe the size: it should vary from 0.5 cm to 1 cm. If you do everything correctly, the taste will be more harmonious, and the components of the salad will be better combined with each other. Simply put, the smaller we cut, the tastier it will be.
Let's start with the solids. First, cut the onion into small cubes and transfer to a pre-prepared container. Then - the turn of cucumbers. They need to be cut so that their size is approximately equal to the size of green peas. Then you should peel the sausage from the shell and cut it into small cubes. We send the chopped sausage into a bowl and proceed to the carrots, and then to the potatoes.
Add them to the rest of the ingredients. Salt and pepper to taste. Next come the eggs. We do the same procedure with them. At the end, add green peas, but not all. A small part of the peas should be left for decoration. We mix everything thoroughly.
In our case, we need to prepare a gas station. To do this, add 1 tbsp to yogurt. l. mustard and mix thoroughly, then add the garlic and lemon juice. Salt and pepper. It is better to season the salad with sauce immediately before use, already in a plate, in order to eat it at a time. Otherwise, refueled, it can quickly deteriorate. And the rest of the undressed salad should be put in the refrigerator. There it will remain without problems for a couple of days, without losing its taste. For those who are on a diet, there is a variant of "Winter" without potatoes and mayonnaise.
For feeding, we use a forming ring. We put it on a plate and fill it with salad, slightly tamping. From above, it is recommended to decorate the dish with various figures from the vegetables included in its composition, the remaining green peas and finely chopped greens - this will give it a more appetizing look. The way the salad is served also looks original when all the ingredients are laid out in order in layers.. But in any case, all products must be of high quality and fresh. Then you can enjoy the taste familiar from childhood without harm to health.
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Salad "Winter" is often confused with "Olivier". There is nothing strange about this, the ingredients of these snacks are almost the same. Of course, now we are talking about our version of "Olivier", which is called "Russian salad" all over the world, and which has practically nothing to do with the French chef's dish. What is the difference between these dishes, read at the end of the recipe.
Ingredients:
How to cook Winter salad, step by step recipe with photo
Boil potatoes in uniforms. By the way, a little tip, so that the potatoes do not boil, add a little cucumber pickle to the water. Boil carrots, also in their uniforms. Boil the eggs, cover with cold water and leave for 10 minutes, so it will be easier to separate them from the shell. Cut the cleaned ingredients into cubes. The size of the cubes is "for an amateur", but it's beautiful when they are the same.1. We cut carrots and potatoes.
2. Pickled or pickled cucumbers.
3. Turnip onion. It is always present in the classic "Winter" salad, read below. Green onions can be added for beauty.
4. Boiled chicken or sausage.
5. Boiled chicken eggs.
6. Canned green peas
7. Season with mayonnaise and mix.
Delicious "Winter" classic salad is ready
Enjoy your meal!
"Winter" against "Olivier"
What is the difference between these two one of the most popular salads on holiday tables? Although it is better to start not with differences, but with how these salads are similar. They are based on the same products:
- boiled potatoes;
- peas (canned);
- boiled eggs;
- pickles;
- mayonnaise
- boiled chicken meat, which is sometimes replaced with boiled sausage;
- boiled carrots;
- onion.
By the way, pickled cucumbers in this case can be replaced with salted ones. Salad Winter in this regard is not particularly picky.
Despite the similarity of the ingredients, the resulting salads are slightly different in taste. Due to the presence of an apple, Olivier is softer. And the presence of onions and carrots make the "Winter" more beautiful and piquant.
The origin of the classic recipe
If you look at it, then a lot of salads that came to us from the festive tables of the Soviet Union trace their history from the real Olivier. It was prepared from expensive products, and served in the form of a beautifully designed slide. Zealous housewives did not worry about finding scarce products, but simply replaced most of the ingredients with available ones. They did not particularly think about the design either: the ingredients were simply cut and mixed in a salad bowl and seasoned with mayonnaise.
The option with "Doctor's" sausage is the direct heir to the "Olivier" salad. And already on its basis, such varieties as Winter Salad and Capital appeared. By and large, there is only one difference in them: sometimes chicken is put in the first instead of sausage, and beef in the second. Although these ingredients are always at the discretion of the hostess.
Classic Winter Salad, benefits and harms
It cannot be said that Winter Salad is very useful. Although, if you properly prepare the products, then such an appetizer can supply the body weakened by cold weather with many useful substances.
Steamed vegetables are best. So they retain more vitamins and do not lose their taste at all. As for meat ingredients, it is best to use chicken breast for winter. It is low in fat and will make the finished snack easier on the digestive system.
A variety of greens will perfectly complement the winter salad. Dill, parsley, green onions will improve the taste of the salad and make it vitamin.
Mayonnaise is the only salad ingredient that can be questioned. It is worth talking about it separately.
Useful gas station
Everyone knows that mayonnaise is not a very useful product. However, this applies only to the numerous sauces with this name that filled the shelves of our stores. But no one forbids. Moreover, there is nothing complicated about this, and an appetizer from such “amateur performance” will only benefit.
To make salad dressing you will need:
- egg yolk - 1 pc.;
- mustard - 1 teaspoon;
- sugar - 1.5 teaspoons;
- salt - about a third of a teaspoon;
- olive oil (can be replaced with sunflower) - 150 ml;
- lemon juice - 2 tbsp;
- water - 2 tbsp.
Mix the yolk, mustard, salt and sugar thoroughly, and then beat. While stirring the mixture, slowly pour in the oil. Then continue whisking until a homogeneous mass is obtained. Now mix lemon juice with water and also pour into the mixture. Whisk again and refrigerate the sauce for about 15 minutes.
Homemade mayonnaise is ready. By the way, they can fill any salad, not just "Winter".
Video recipe "Winter salad"
That's what no holiday table can do without, so it's without salads.
Salad "Olivier", which we will offer you, has a fairly simple recipe, one might even say classic. Of course, not the one that included hazel grouse, black caviar and other delicacies in the original French version. And our “adapted”, Soviet and native, at the mere thought of which the New Year and the feast pops up in our memory. The products included in its composition are simple, affordable and not expensive. So everyone will like this salad.
Salad recipe "Winter" with sausage
What products do we need:
Bank of green peas 1 pc. (canned)
- 2-3 pickled cucumbers or 6-7 if you use gherkins (such small cucumbers);
- 2-3 potatoes (medium);
- 3 eggs;
- sausages 300 gr;
- mayonnaise 200 gr, about 4-6 tablespoons;
- salt, and you can greens.
Many supplement the "Winter" salad with onions, carrots and even an apple, and replace the sausage with meat. But since I promised the classic, then first we will analyze the main cooking method.
How to cook salad "Olivier" classic:
From dishes and kitchen utensils, we need a couple of small pots, a “salad bowl”, a cutting board, kitchen and canning knives.
1. The first step is to cook vegetables and eggs.
Should be screwed. We put it in water, put it on gas, after the water has boiled, cook for 10 minutes, then cool (with a stream of cold water) and leave to cool.
It is better to take potato tubers of the same size, so they will cook evenly.
We wash them with a sponge from the earth and dirt with running water, throw them into a saucepan, fill with water by 1 cm. above the surface of the tubers and put on the stove. You can add salt at the rate of 1/2 teaspoon of salt per liter of water. Bring to a boil and reduce the heat to the lowest level. We wait 15-20 minutes, periodically checking the readiness with a toothpick (if the potatoes are pierced without problems, then this indicates the readiness of the tubers). The total cooking time of potatoes for any salad, in our case "Winter" should not exceed 30 minutes. Drain the water, leave to cool.
With some skill, you can combine the boiling of eggs and potatoes, unless the eggs have to be caught by a tablespoon earlier, given the time of their preparation.
2. Open a can of green peas with a can opener. Carefully drain the liquid in which it was marinated, after which you can pour it into a container (bowl, saucepan or immediately “salad bowl”) in which you will mix the ingredients for the Olivier salad.
For all the following culinary operations, we need a board and a scalpel ... or rather a kitchen knife. In the preparation of salads, it is very convenient to use a knife with a small file on the blade.
3. With sausage should do the following. We remove the shell, whether it is at least artificial, at least natural. And cut into small cubes, about 0.5-1cm in size. And add green peas. Usually they use boiled sausage without fat “pills” (“there was a doctoral one - it became an amateur one” almost like in a movie, just the other way around). But no one forbids the use of ham, serverlets and so on.
4. Lightly salted or pickled cucumbers are lightly rinsed with water and cut in the same way as sausage. If the skin is too hard, then you can remove it before cutting. After we throw it into a bowl with sausage and peas.
If you are using gherkins and they are very small, then it will not be a problem to cut them into simple circles (1/2 or 1/4 circle, depending on the size).
5. We clean the cooled boiled eggs from the shell and cut into neat cubes. The size should be about the same as that of the sausage (as you may have noticed, this principle of slicing is the general concept of the salad).
6. Cooled boiled potatoes should also be peeled. Without some effort, the peel should be easy to peel. Similarly to all the previous ingredients, cut the potatoes. Unless the potato cubes can be a little larger than all the others, since it is quite soft.
7. Dress the salad with mayonnaise and mix. Sometimes sour cream is used instead of mayonnaise, but there are lovers who combine both in equal proportions (instead of 200g of mayonnaise, they take 100g of both).
8. Greens, in particular dill, are used after kneading salads, when laid out on plates. Or until the moment of dressing with mayonnaise, until the ingredients are mixed. Here who likes more. Just take a bunch of dill and chop it.
If you mixed the ingredients in a saucepan or bowl, then before serving, you should transfer it to a beautiful salad bowl and hold it in the refrigerator for at least half an hour.
Salad "Winter" with sausage or "Olivier" classic is ready!
Enjoy the taste created by your own hands!
Recipe modification/addition options
Sometimes, instead of sausage, the same amount of boiled beef or chicken is used. Pieces of meat are boiled for 40 minutes in salted water. Cool and cut into cubes of the same size.
If you want to use onions, then before adding it to the salad, you should peel and finely chop. Green onions are also chopped. But you should remember that such vegetables have a rather coarse spicy taste and this will undoubtedly affect the overall impression of the salad. Especially if your guests do not expect anything like this.
Well, lovers of carrots as part of a winter salad should wash and boil it just like potatoes. And it will be enough to take one or a couple of medium carrots. It all depends on your love for her.
Sometimes people add apples to this salad. Why do you need to take 1 small apple, cut it the same way or a little smaller than all other products. And if you are embarrassed by the thick peel, then it can be safely removed before cutting.
Video recipe "Winter salad":
How do you cook Olivier?
Almost every housewife often prepares the well-known Olivier or Winter salad. But sometimes you want to add some zest to your favorite dish. If you add some ingredients, you get a completely new "Winter" salad, the classic recipe of which is quite simple to perform.
Every hostess, without exception, knows the classic recipe for this salad. Experienced chefs give their advice on how to make a familiar dish original, spicy and very tasty:
- boiled sausage can be replaced with boiled chicken, veal, pork, beef or smoked meats;
- potatoes and eggs must be cooled before cutting;
- all components of the salad should be cut into equal pieces;
- to give the salad a summer freshness, add chopped greens to your taste;
- you can diversify the salad with boiled carrots;
- any meat fillet should be boiled for at least an hour, and then insist a little more in the broth;
- green peas must first be washed and drained of juice;
- for a piquant aroma and taste, it is better to use pickled cucumbers;
- as a dressing, you can choose mayonnaise, sour cream or a specially prepared sauce;
- an extraordinary taste and aroma of the salad will give a sauce prepared on the basis of yogurt with the addition of garlic cloves, lime, mustard and pepper;
- for decoration, you can use lettuce leaves;
- salad "Winter" can be laid out in layers or mixed;
- salting the salad is undesirable, since pickled cucumbers, meat and dressing will exclude the bland taste of the dish.
Back in Soviet times, the classic Olivier was always cooked with boiled sausage. There is an opinion among culinary specialists that the first salad "Winter" was prepared back in 1894. The original variation of this salad was refined and delicious. They added hazel grouse, pressed caviar, crayfish necks, capers, etc. In the USSR, as you know, there was a food shortage, so ordinary boiled sausage became the basis of the salad. According to this recipe, the Winter salad is prepared to this day.
Compound:
- boiled sausage - 0.2 kg;
- pickled cucumbers - 3 pcs.;
- 3 chicken eggs;
- potatoes - 2-3 pcs.;
- canned peas - 150 g;
- table mayonnaise and salt - to taste.
Cooking:
"Winter" salad with spring notes
In the cold season, you want a little summer warmth. You can give a piece of summer to your household by preparing a traditional Winter salad with fresh cucumbers and herbs. The riot of colors and the exquisite taste of the dish will not leave anyone indifferent. You can also add boiled carrots to taste.
Compound:
- 0.4 kg beef pulp;
- fresh cucumbers - 2-3 pcs.;
- 2 carrots;
- 5 potatoes;
- 5 boiled chicken eggs;
- canned green peas - 1 can;
- ½ st. sour cream with 15% fat concentration;
- table mayonnaise - to taste;
- green onions (feathers);
- salt and pepper mixture.
Cooking:
Salad with chicken and herbs
To diversify the usual salad "Winter", for example, for serving to the festive table, you can boiled fillets or smoked chicken. Choose a meat base according to your personal taste preferences. As a dressing, you can take sour cream or prepare an original and spicy sauce. You can also make homemade mayonnaise and season your salad with it.
Compound:
- smoked chicken fillet - 0.3 kg;
- ½ onion;
- boiled potatoes in uniform - 2-3 pcs.;
- 1 chicken egg;
- boiled carrots - 1 pc.;
- green canned peas - 1 can;
- mayonnaise, salt and herbs - to taste.
Cooking:
- Smoked chicken fillet should be peeled and cut into equivalent cubes.
- Potatoes and carrots must be peeled and chopped.
- Boiled eggs need to be peeled and grated.
- Green canned peas should be put in a colander to stack the marinade.
- Half of the onion must be peeled and finely chopped.
- All prepared ingredients should be put in a deep salad bowl, seasoned with salt, spices and mayonnaise, and then mixed.
- You can decorate the Winter salad with smoked chicken fillet with sprigs of fresh parsley. If desired, greens can be immediately added to the salad.
Spicy appetizer for the holiday table
Do you want to cook a gourmet dish that even a true gourmet will like? Try to look at the familiar winter salad in a new way. Fried mushrooms, olives and lemon juice will add a touch of sophistication and piquancy to the salad. If desired, you can add canned peas to this salad.
Compound:
- any meat fillet - 0.4 kg;
- 0.4 kg of fresh mushrooms;
- 2 boiled potatoes;
- chicken eggs - 4 pcs.;
- 1 onion;
- ½ lemon;
- fresh cucumbers - 3 pcs.;
- 3 art. l. olives;
- sour cream and table mayonnaise;
- fresh greens;
- vegetable oil for frying;
- salt and pepper mixture.
Cooking:
- Fresh mushrooms should be washed, the caps should be separated from the legs and cut into small cubes.
- Sliced mushrooms should be fried in vegetable oil until cooked, and then put into a salad bowl with a slotted spoon.
- Jacket-boiled potatoes and hard-boiled chicken eggs should be peeled and cut into equivalent cubes.
- The onion must be peeled and cut into half rings. Using lemon juice, chopped onion should be marinated for one hour.
- Remove the skin from fresh cucumbers, and then cut them into small cubes.
- All chopped components and pickled onions should be transferred to a salad bowl with mushrooms.
- In a separate container, mix table mayonnaise and sour cream with any concentration of fat, observing a 2: 1 ratio.
- Add chopped olives and finely chopped greens to the dressing.
- Put the prepared dressing in a salad bowl and mix the salad thoroughly.
To date, there are many varieties of recipes for the classic Winter or Olivier salad. You can experiment every day with the preparation of such a dish, adding new ingredients and savory sauces. If you have a conservative view of cold appetizers, then cook your favorite salad from childhood according to the classic recipe. Enjoy your meal!
