Salad Olivier beautiful decoration. How to decorate salad Olivier

How to cook salad Olivier.

In order to prepare a classic salad, they take the meat of domestic game or poultry. There are recipes where the bird is replaced with boiled meat, tongue, ham or even shrimp. Of course, this can be done, but in this case the salad will turn out different. No worse, no better, just different! But, we are one hundred percent sure of this, it is still delicious, although it is already new, original. It is absolutely not recommended to use sausage instead of chicken when preparing a salad. Although such recipes are also found. But the sausage itself is already a cold snack and it is better to eat it on its own. Gourmets believe that it does not go well with salad ingredients.

For cooking Olivier, it is recommended to use not salted, but pickled cucumbers. That is why it is believed that Olivier salad is a winter salad. The classic Olivier recipe also includes apples. And it is better to take sweet varieties, but sweet and sour will do. Apples and cucumbers are recommended to be peeled. Olivier salad is also prepared with fresh cucumbers, but this is no longer Olivier, but a completely different salad is obtained, although it is also very tasty.

In the preparation of Olivier salad, as in any other salad, it is extremely important to maintain the correct proportion. Therefore, in order to prepare a classic Olivier salad recipe, the following ingredients are taken:

For 6 potatoes

3 carrots

2 onions

1-2 small pickled cucumbers

1 apple

200 g boiled chicken

A glass of canned green peas

Salt and ground pepper to taste.

The composition of the recipe refers to vegetables of medium size.

And one more prerequisite for success is not to be too lazy to chop all the salad ingredients smaller. Gently mix chopped vegetables with mayonnaise. Mayonnaise can be bought or made at home.

The result will be such that your guests will say that you have the most delicious Olivier salad and you will not regret the effort!

Nowadays, the Olivier salad recipe is winter and summer. "What's the difference?" - you ask. cucumber difference. We include salty ones in the recipe - we get a winter salad. We use fresh cucumbers - we get a summer one.
How to decorate salad Olivier.

Options - the sea. We spread the salad in a high slide and decorate with slices of pickled cucumbers or parsley leaves, chicken pieces or apple slices. It can be in a common salad bowl, or it can be in portions ... For New Year's Olivier - its own decoration. In a word, turn on your imagination and create your own culinary masterpiece! Here are a few photos of how you can decorate and serve our famous salad on the festive table:

Surely, you already know how to cook Olivier according to a wide variety of recipes and have already chosen the one that suits you the most in terms of taste and list of ingredients. Therefore, this time we will not repeat ourselves, but rather, let's take a closer look at its culinary decoration for the holiday. Take a ready-made Olivier salad and a suitable wide plate. To decorate the salad in the form of a New Year's candle in spruce needles, we will need to distribute the salad in a flat but wide circle over the entire surface of the dish. We lightly tamp the salad, give the edges a beautiful rounded shape.

We lay out the white background of the image with grated protein, trying to fill the central circle with it as much as possible, where our candle will be located.

We proceed to the formation of the initial drawing: lay out the base of the wreath with large sprigs of parsley, and then, rising up, we form the rounding of the wreath with small leaves. We make a candle from a rectangular piece of hard cheese and put it on a wreath, slightly hiding the lower base behind the parsley sprigs.

Of course, it is necessary that our candle burns on New Year's Eve! Therefore, we cut out the flame for it from red sweet pepper (fresh or pickled), and distribute small pieces-cubes from the same pepper around the candle flame, depicting its reflections.

We decorate the candle with a pretty bow of boiled carrots: cut thin longitudinal strips from it with a vegetable cutter and wrap them in loops. Place the loops at the base of the candles against each other, and decorate the joint with a circle of canned corn (you can cut any openwork figure from red or yellow sweet pepper).

It just so happened that throughout the post-Soviet space, in every house on the New Year's table, a festive Olivier salad flaunts in the center of the table. This salad fell in love with our people, it can be said that it has become a favorite and a favorite among all salads. Almost no holiday or New Year's table is complete without this salad. And how many different jokes go about this, perhaps one of the most famous, about how to fall asleep in an Olivier salad. Today we want to offer you a selection of recipes for this popular favorite, because there are a lot of options for making salad. In addition, it can be arranged in different ways.

The most tender, the most delicious, the most beloved! First we present the classic or as it is also called the Soviet Olivier recipe, the way we usually see it in different restaurants or cafes. The classic salad consists of boiled sausage, in Soviet times it was the doctor's "varenka" or boiled beef, pickles (precisely salty!), Peas, eggs, boiled carrots and potatoes.

Initially, the salad was made with boiled beef, but in perestroika times, when meat became a luxury, they began to add boiled doctor's sausage instead. What you use depends on your preference.

Ingredients:

• Potatoes - 4 pcs. medium
• Carrot - 1 pc.
• Eggs - 4 pcs.
• Boiled sausage "doctor's" (or boiled beef) - 300 g
• Pickled cucumbers - 4 pcs. medium size
• Canned peas - 1 can weighing 200 g
• Provencal mayonnaise - 200-300 g
• Parsley and dill leaves, optional, for garnish
• Salt, freshly ground black pepper - to taste

Cooking:

Boil potatoes in their uniforms and carrots in one pan. In another egg. Do not boil the eggs for a long time, because if they are overcooked, the yolk will turn blue, which will spoil the appearance of the salad, because it is beautiful when the yolk is bright yellow.

Cool boiled vegetables, peel. Eggs to clear from a shell.

Cut potatoes and carrots into cubes. Chop the eggs.

Pickled cucumbers, cut into cubes, yes, exactly salty! In Soviet times, this salad was made with them. Housewives often twisted pickles themselves and always opened a jar before the new year.

Boiled beef or boiled sausage is also cut into cubes.

Open a jar of peas and drain the liquid.

Pour all the ingredients into a salad bowl, mix. Salt and pepper a little, season with mayonnaise.

Remember that the taste of mayonnaise greatly affects the final taste of the salad. Therefore, for the festive table, choose a good and tasty mayonnaise, or better yet, make it yourself!

The festive classic Soviet Olivier is ready, you can serve it to the table! Enjoy your meal!

Capital Olivier

As you know, the Olivier salad was invented by the French restaurateur Olivier, who worked at the Hermitage restaurant in Moscow. the real salad according to his recipe was very different from the current adapted version. It included hazel grouse, capers, crayfish tails, other ingredients and a delicious sauce that the chef kept a secret.

Later, in the Moscow restaurant, chef Mikhail Ivanovich Ivanov repeated this salad, since Ivanov had previously worked as an assistant to the Frenchman Olivier. Only in the salad the fritillaries were replaced with chicken. The salad became very popular, because it was very similar to the original Olivier salad and was called Capital. Let's try and cook this salad.

Salad Olivier Ingredients:

• Boiled chicken fillet - 300 gr
• Boiled potatoes in uniforms - 300 gr
• Eggs - 3 pcs
• Pickled cucumbers - 200 gr
• Canned green peas - 100 gr
• green onion
• Mayonnaise
• Salt and ground pepper to taste

Cooking:

So, we found out how Olivier differs from Stolichny salad, in Stolichny the meat ingredient is boiled chicken fillet, and also because carrots are not put in Stolichny.

Boil potatoes and eggs. Be careful not to overcook the eggs and turn the yolk blue, as this will spoil the look of the salad.

Cool the boiled potatoes and peel them. Peel the eggs too.

Boil chicken breast.

Meat, potatoes and pickles cut into cubes. Chop the green onions finely. Finely chop the eggs as well.

Mix all ingredients, add canned peas and mix again.

Add salt and pepper to taste. Season with mayonnaise. Choose high-quality and tasty mayonnaise so that the taste of the salad is not spoiled.

Salad Olivier Capital is ready! Transfer it to a beautiful salad bowl or portioned bowls or cups, garnish with a sprig of greens and serve.

Enjoy your meal!

Salad Olivier with pork tongue "Bourgeois"

This salad is perfect for the holiday table. The familiar and beloved Olivier will sparkle with other notes if you use boiled pork tongue instead of boiled sausage or meat. Also, such "bourgeois" ingredients as red caviar and crayfish necks go to the salad. We use quail eggs.

Ingredients:

Cooking:

Boil potatoes in their skins and cool. Also boil the eggs.

Boiled tongue, pickles, potatoes and eggs cut into small cubes.

Pour all the ingredients into a large salad bowl, add the crayfish tails and mix. Salt, pepper and season with mayonnaise.

We spread the salad in a clean salad bowl and decorate with quail eggs, red caviar and crayfish tails. You can serve the salad in batches.

Salad Olivier Bourgeois is ready!

Olivier salad with beef

Ingredients:

• Boiled beef - 100 gr.
• Hard boiled egg - 2 pcs.
• Potatoes - 2 pcs.
• Pickled cucumbers - 2 pcs.
• Fresh cucumbers - 2 pcs.
• Canned peas - 100 gr.
• Boiled carrots - 1 pc.
• Onion - 1 pc.
• Salt and ground pepper - to taste
• Mayonnaise Provencal - 80 gr.

Cooking:

Boil the beef. Cool and cut into cubes.

Boil vegetables (carrots and potatoes) and eggs, cool, peel and cut into cubes in the same way.

Place the ingredients in a salad bowl and mix. Cut salted and fresh cucumbers into cubes.

Add cucumbers to salad bowl. Drain the water from the canned peas and add the peas to the rest of the products. To mix everything. Finely chop the onion, you can marinate it in vinegar for 10 minutes.

Salt, pepper and dress Olivier salad with beef mayonnaise.

Put the salad in a festive salad bowl or serve in portions in glasses or bowls.

Enjoy your meal!

Aspic Olivier

Salad Olivier can be served as aspic. Such an unusual version of the salad will delight and surprise your guests.

It is done quite simply, first prepare the salad itself. When the salad is ready, dissolve 10 g of gelatin in 120 ml, dissolve for 5 minutes. Add gelatin to salad and mix.

We lay out the salad in molds, and put in the refrigerator for 3-4 hours.

Before serving, take the aspic Olivier out of the molds, garnish with herbs and you are ready to serve!

How to arrange Olivier salad on the festive table

No New Year's table is complete without this favorite salad. But I want to somehow diversify and get creative with the design of the salad. Serving in a common salad bowl is of course the easiest option, but on a holiday you want something unusual, more festive and beautiful! Therefore, let's look at how you can beautifully decorate the Olivier salad on the festive New Year's table. And there are many options! Tartlets, bowls and cups to help if you want to serve salad in portions. You can also serve salad in the form of a roll. Fantasy, as they say, rules!

For you, a selection of photos, beautiful and original design. Choose!

Portion salad

Olivier in tomatoes, or appetizer of tomato stuffed oliviers

Olivier salad in tartlets

The most creative design of Olivier salad

Rubik's Cube Salad.

Jellied salad Olivier

Salad "New Year's wreath"

Olivier can be decorated in the form of a wreath for the Christmas or New Year's table. To do this, use sprigs of fresh dill and red currants or cranberries, you can decorate with blueberries.

Olivier "Gift"

And the salad can be presented as a gift with ribbons. Make ribbons from fresh cucumber, and around make flowers from boiled carrots and olives.

Sometimes you can hear the opinion that many are already tired of Olivier for the New Year. Like, how much can you put on the table this familiar, traditional and so simple salad in terms of ingredients. But New Year's traditions were not created so that they could be easily abandoned.

If you want to make this salad somehow unusual and special during the meeting of the next year, then you should think about how to decorate Olivier for the New Year 2018 in an original way. If you approach the issue of decorating this salad correctly, you will see that Olivier for the New Year you can still surprise!

Features of New Year's Olivier decoration:

The simplest and most exquisite decoration of Olivier salad is to pour the dish with mayonnaise, and put parsley, dill, green onions, lettuce and celery stalks on top. You can find different ways of laying greenery: separate branches or leaves;

Green peas, cucumber and egg slices, carrot circles are also an easy way to decorate a dish. Of these vegetables, you can easily cut Christmas trees and snowflakes, stars at home. To make the shape neat, you can use molds for small cookies;

From those vegetables that are part of the salad, you can make truly themed decorations. For example, the hands of the clock, which will show the time of the festive midnight or chamomile on the bow, so that the winter salad will return to summer;

The most original decoration will look products that are not part of the salad. How beautiful to decorate Olivier in this case? You can use lemon slices or apples, grapes, olives. Decoration elements can be laid out on the surface of the salad in a chaotic manner, or you can lay out some kind of thematic decoration with a plot, come up with original patterns;

A salad will look beautiful if you make a mesh of mayonnaise on it, and put an olive or a grape, a handful of pomegranate seeds in each cell;

And you can also make a mesh of Korean carrots, as in ours.

If you don’t have any ideas at all how to decorate a New Year’s salad with the help of existing products, then you can simply use the successful color ratio of the products. On a white background of mayonnaise or grated protein, orange or green spots will look advantageous. Just scatter carrot cubes on the surface, this will already make New Year's Olivier bright and original.

No matter how Olivier “gets bored” for the New Year, the decoration of the salad should still be moderate so as not to cover the surface of the salad. After all, the guests who will be at the table must definitely consider the dish. Moreover, fortunately, most Slavs still love and do not represent the New Year of Olivier's basin troubles.

And if some of your guests do not eat meat, then we suggest you cook.

It is interesting! Mayonnaise for salad decoration can be made colored. To do this, you can add a little beetroot juice or red wine (to get a red tint), tomato puree (to get an orange color), spinach or sorrel juice (for a green color), a little mustard (for a yellow color) to the finished mayonnaise.

If you can’t figure out how to decorate an Olivier salad for the new year, then you can try to experiment not only with the appearance of the salad, but also with the ingredients that make up it. For example, replace sausage with fish (salmon or trout). You can decorate such a fish Olivier with quail eggs, red caviar and shrimp. There will be a very bright and rich dish on the New Year's table, moreover, traditional.

Another option for an interesting salad serving is to lay it out in an unusual shape. For example, you can lay out Olivier with a Christmas tree, with branches of which you can make dill. You can also lay out Olivier in the form of a Goat's head or a small Goat. If you don't feel like adding so much creativity to the shape of your salad, then use simple geometric shapes like a circle, triangle, or square. It is important to understand that even a slight deviation from traditionality in serving Olivier will cause surprise and, if you try a little and make an effort, even delight.

Connect more imagination, try to make this New Year's salad during the celebration of 2018 carry not only traditionalism, but also some unusual actual New Year's symbols.

It is interesting! Housewives who like to quickly and simply decorate dishes will help onions. To make beautiful onion lilies, you need to cut the onion in the middle with cloves to the center. Next, disassemble into cups, fold in the shape of a flower and put on a salad. The bright center of the lily can be a carrot, cut into strips.

You can just take colored mayonnaise, how to cook it was written a little higher in this article, and write some kind of congratulation on the salad or just the phrase “Happy New Year!” or just "2018". Much here depends on the imagination of the hostess and on how much time she is willing to spend on serving Olivier to the unusual New Year's table. But, in this article, we have collected the most interesting, useful and applied ideas on how to decorate Olivier for the New Year 2018. Combining ideas or simply using them will definitely help make Olivier the center of the New Year's table again!

A Christmas tree or a Christmas wreath will look spectacular on the table. This is easy to do, the main thing is to show a little imagination.

So, for a wreath you will need:

• festive flat plate;
• glass containers;
• decoration products.

Put a glass jar in the middle of a beautiful dish. Carefully place the appetizer around and smooth with a spoon. On top we decorate with sprigs of fresh parsley or dill, who likes what more.

Then cut out stars from red bell pepper and Dutch cheese (3 each). Arrange on greens, if desired, you can scatter green peas and sweet corn grains.

Putting an edible Christmas tree on the New Year's table is not difficult. To do this, spread the salad on a flat dish. Needles - dill sprigs, lay them in one direction.

As toys, chop red and yellow bell peppers into cubes (make a star), you can also use carrots.

Salad in tartlets

Edible bowls are sold in every supermarket. They can be made from shortcrust or waffle dough in various sizes. Serving appetizers is quite simple, but at the same time original.

Put the salad in the finished tartlets, decorate Olivier for the New Year with a sprig of parsley. As an additional decor, you can cut a rose from boiled carrots or simply sprinkle with green peas.

Important! Salad in edible dough salad bowls is laid out strictly before serving snacks on the table. Otherwise, they will become soft and lose all their original appearance.

You can replace tartlets with simple bell pepper. To do this, rinse the pods under water, get the seed box. Cut into rings 5-7 cm high. We put on a beautiful salad bowl and put a cold appetizer in them. Decorate with pickled cucumber slices.

Advice! For Olivier decoration, it is better to take red or yellow pepper.

Green peas: original decoration options

Consider several options for decorating the New Year's traditional cold appetizer:

Almond decoration

Put the salad on a flat plate, giving it an oval shape. We clean the nuts, and to improve the taste, lightly fry in a dry frying pan.

In one direction, spread one after another, giving the salad the shape of a cone. We decorate empty places on the plate with fluffy sprigs of dill.

More ways

So we figured out the question: "How to decorate in an original way and how beautifully to serve Olivier salad for the New Year." Do not be afraid to experiment and fantasize, surprise your loved ones with delicious and beautiful dishes.