New Year, fluffy Christmas tree, splashes of champagne, serpentine, crackers and, of course, Stolichny salad. This dish is well known to everyone and has been tried by many, while it always creates a festive atmosphere. Step-by-step recipe with a photo. Video recipe.
According to one of the versions, the Stolichny salad was invented in the 30s of the last century by the cook Ivan Ivanov of the Moscow restaurant. In the traditional Soviet version of "Olivier", he added several "his" products and got a new snack. Since that moment, many variations of the preparation of this dish have appeared. In the recipe, chicken was replaced by beef, doctor's sausage, beef tongue, goose, fish, crab meat … Instead of fresh cucumbers, they used salted or pickled cucumbers. Each new culinary experiment acquired unexpected flavors. It should be borne in mind that no matter what recipe you prefer, the following tricks should be taken into account.
- Boil potatoes and carrots in advance. If you cook them in their uniform, then carefully remove the dirt with a brush. Although you can boil vegetables without the skin or bake them in the oven.
- Use homemade mayonnaise for dressing. But a good quality industrial analog is also suitable.
- To preserve the beneficial ingredients in your dish, season the salad just before serving. At the same time, take a portion that you eat in one meal.
- Gastronomic fantasies are endless, so you can add any food to the salad. For example, onions or green onions, boiled beef, smoked chicken, and even red fish. You can also cook it without meat at all.
- If you use boiled meat, then cool it in the broth, because this will keep it juicy.
See also how to make Stolichny salad from fresh cucumbers and peas.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 235 kcal.
- Servings - 5
- Cooking time - 30 minutes for slicing food, plus time for cooking and cooling the components
Ingredients:
- Potatoes - 3 pcs.
- Mayonnaise - for dressing
- Pickled cucumbers - 3 pcs.
- Carrots - 1 pc.
- Green onions - bunch
- Salt - pinch or to taste
- Eggs - 5 pcs.
- Doctor's sausage - 300 g
Step-by-step preparation of Stolichny salad with carrots and green onions for the New Year, recipe with photo:
1. Boil the potatoes in their uniforms in salted water. How to cook it correctly so that the skin does not crack, you can read the step-by-step recipe published on the pages of the site. Cool the boiled tubers, peel and cut into medium-sized cubes.
2. Boil the carrots in a peel and cool. Then peel and cut into cubes.
3. Boil eggs in steep for 8 minutes after boiling and cool in ice water. Peel them and cut into cubes.
4. Dry the cucumbers with a paper towel and cut into cubes.
5. Remove the packaging film from the doctor's sausage and cut into cubes.
6. Place all ingredients in a large bowl and add chopped green onions. This recipe uses frozen feathers.
7. Season salad with salt and mayonnaise.
8. Stir Stolichny salad with carrots and green onions, chill in the refrigerator for half an hour and serve on the festive table of the New Year.
See also a video recipe on how to make Stolichny salad.
