How to make Olivier salad: two unusual recipes

In many families, Olivier salad is associated with the New Year holidays. Probably every housewife has her favorite recipe for making snacks. Some ladies prepare a dish with sausage, while others add boiled meat or beef tongue to the salad.

Pick your recipe

If you are tired of the Olivier salad with sausage, prepared according to the classic recipe, then pay attention to the dishes that will be described below. Snacks will surprise you with unusual ingredients, and having prepared them, you will marvel at the spicy taste.

Olivier Salad with Smoked Mackerel

Thanks to the addition of smoked fish to the dish , Olivier salad acquires spicy notes. To prepare a delicious snack, take:

• 2 boiled potatoes;

• 1 boiled carrot;

• 1 hard-boiled chicken egg;

• 1 smoked mackerel;

• ½ cans of canned peas;

• ½ large green apple;

• ½ onion heads (can be replaced with green);

• salt, spices, herbs and mayonnaise to taste.

Stages of cooking salad "Olivier" with smoked mackerel:

1. Peel potatoes and carrots, cut into small cubes.

2. Chop onions into thin half rings. To remove bitterness from a vegetable, pour boiling water over it and then cold water. After such manipulations, the taste of the product will become softer. If you took green onions, then wash it, dry it, cut into rings.

3. Combine the prepared ingredients in a deep plate, add peas there, after draining the water from it.

4. It's time to do mackerel. Carefully cut the fish along the back, remove the ridge, remove small bones. Peel the flesh of the mackerel from the peel, chop or chop your prepared fish in your hands, send it to a bowl of other salad ingredients.

5. Wash the apple, remove the peel, clean the core and bones. Cut the fruit into small pieces. Add to salad.

6. Stir the finished dish, add salt and spices if necessary, season with mayonnaise. Before serving, grate a boiled chicken egg over the snack.

This is how Olivier salad with smoked mackerel is prepared. In the future, you can vary the amount of ingredients added to the dish. For example, some housewives like to have a lot of potatoes in the salad, while others prefer to distinctly feel the apples. This is a matter of taste, redo the recipe as you like, until you get your perfect Olivier salad.