The culture of consuming salads for holidays came to our country clearly from France. It is this country that is considered the successor of salad recipes. The French were able to adopt the cooking algorithms from the Italians. Italy, in turn, received salad recipes from its ancestors from Ancient Greece.
Italian salads are not as widely known as French ones. The reason for this is probably the conservative approach to cooking of the Italians. In France, they experimented with the products that can be added to salads
. Thus, we have adopted the salads Olivier, Caesar and others. Let’s tell about the method of preparing a salad to replace the classic Olivier.
Ingredients for the analog of Olivier:
- boiled chicken fillet – 600 g;
- mayonnaise – 200 g;
- boiled eggs – 5 pcs;
- salt – ⅓ tsp;
- cucumbers – 3 pcs;
- French mustard – 2 tsp;
- corn – 160 g;
- cheese – 150 g;
- green onions – bundle.
Preparation of the analog of Olivier:
Cut into cubes of medium size cheese and peeled eggs. Brusochki should be cut cucumbers, shredded green onions.
Chicken fillet can also be cut or divided into fibers
.
In a salad bowl combine cucumbers, corn, green onions, meat, eggs and cheese. Salt the salad, dress with French mustard and mayonnaise, mix thoroughly.
If you like to feel black ground pepper in the salad, you can add it for flavor. Also in this dish well combined with the total mass of ingredients green canned peas.
