Olivier Salad (aka Russian Potato Salad)
Olivier Salad (aka Russian Potato Salad)

Hey everyone, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, olivier salad (aka russian potato salad). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook olivier salad (aka russian potato salad) using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Olivier Salad (aka Russian Potato Salad):
  1. Take 1 1/2 lb red potatoes skin on
  2. Prepare 2 large carrots peeled & diced
  3. Prepare 2 large celery stalks diced
  4. Take 1 cup frozen peas
  5. Take 1 cup diced pickles (I like claussen)
  6. Prepare 5 tbsp dijon mustard (yellow is fine)
  7. Take 1/2 cup sour cream
  8. Take 1 cup mayo
  9. Make ready 4 boiled eggs (peeled and chopped)
  10. Take 1 green apple diced (grannysmith)
  11. Take 1 salt to taste (start with a teaspoon)

Everything is in this Olivier salad recipe: vegetables, meat and even a healthy dose of cholesterol with mayonnaise and eggs. Well, after all, you can adjust the dose. Olivier Salad, or Russian potato salad, is a meal on its own. Loaded with lots of vegetables, meats and eggs and finished with creamy mayo, this Russian salad is so satisfying and filling!

Steps to make Olivier Salad (aka Russian Potato Salad):
  1. Get your potatoes boiled until cooked through. About 30 to 40 min once boiling starts. Check doneness by placing a knife through potatoe… Should slide right off the knife when done. Peel the skin off the potatoe after its cooked. The skin should slide right off. Some people prefer boiling with out the skin, but that makes the potatoes watery and mushier. You decide.
  2. Drain potatoes. Let potatoes cool until you can handle them. About 30 min. Dice potatoes and place in a very large bowl.
  3. Add your carrots, celery and peas to a small pot with water and boil for 5 min. Drain water.
  4. Add all of your ingredients to the potatoes and mix very well. Taste. Add more salt until it reaches desired seasoning.
  5. Cover with plastic wrap and chill overnight. Serve as a potatoe salad side dish.
  6. As the salad sits over night the flavors will come together and you won't believe how amazing this potatoe salad is!

While I was born and raised in Mongolia, I grew up in a small Russian community. Russian Potato Salad (Olivier Salad) - this fancy potato salad is traditionally made for holidays in all Slavic families. It is made of potatoes, eggs, carrots, sausage, pickles, peas and mayo. Using smoked sausage in this salad ups the flavor of this salad and makes it all that much more delicious! This Russian potato salad recipe aka salad Oliver is a combination of potatoes, eggs, chicken, pickles and herbs in a flavourful mayonnaise based What is Russian Potato Salad Olivier?

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