Меню

Home / Recipes / Salads / Olivier

Olivier

Type: Salads
Servings: 4
Ready in: 45 min.
Calories: High
Olivier is popular in the former USSR countries winter salad. It is regularly served at Ukrainians' New Year table on par with dressed herring and meat jelly.
The salad combines several interesting ingredients: boiled vegetables, eggs and meat. Meat choice may vary - from poultry to pork. Some housewives add beef tongue instead of meat in order to make the salad especially tender. Regarding boiled vegetables - potatoes and carrots - they must get cold (indoor temperature) before getting in salad, otherwise they lose their taste.
Olivier is regularly seasoned with mayonnaise. Afterwards the salad should stand for a while, and only then you may put it in fridge and then serve.
Olivier is traditional festive dish, but sometimes it is also served to everyday table.

Ingredients

Potatoes 500 g
Carrot 150 g
Egg 5 pieces
Pork tongue 500 g
Canned green peas 300 g
Cucumbers 300 g
Mayonnaise 150 ml
Salt 10 g

 

Stages of cooking

1
Boil the potatoes, carrot, and eggs. Cool to the room temperature and dice them. Put into the salad dish.
2
Cook the tongue. After cooking it, put the tongue in the cold water so it will peel easily.
3
Then add the peeled and diced tongue into the salad dish.
4
Then add the canned green peas, diced fresh or pickled cucumber. Season the salad with salt and mayonnaise.

 

 

 

Discover the secrets of traditional Ukrainian cuisine
Install our unique App and inspire yourself with the most delicious Ukrainian recipes!

We recommend

Meat Salad
It is a very nutritious and tasty winter salad. The main ingredient is meat. Every meat can suit, so it is possible to choose it to taste.
Read more
Salad with Liver, Celery and Carrot
This is very tasty and substantial warm salad. The liver is very nutritious, and celery and fresh carrot give the vitamins.
Read more
Cottage cheese pancakes
Cottage cheese pancakes are national Ukrainian dish, with curd being its main ingredient. Many ask why curd pancakes are called 'cottage cheese pancakes'! The answer is simple: in Ukraine curd is commonly called cottage cheese, and from here the dish's name derives. The main ingredients are curd (dry is the best), eggs and flour. The pancakes may b
Read more
Shakhterskyi
The salad Shakhterskyi rose to fame during Soviet Union era. The successful combination of vegetables and meat is a key to salad’s richness and healthiness. Moreover, the salad can be served both warm immediately after being finished, and cooled, if it is stored in the fridge for several hours.
Read more