Olivie - Famous Russian Salad

Russians like to cook a lot of different salads "Venegret", "Mimoza", "Olivie" and so on: Actually the best part of the meal is the starters (zakuski) often with sour cream or mayonnaise; meats or fish, vegetables, and eggs.

The classic Russian salads are
  Olivie (Potato Salad),
  Mimoza (Layered Fish & Egg Salad),
  Shuba (Layered Fish & Vegetable Salad)
  Carrot salad
  Venegret (Vegetable Salad)
  Beets with nuts salad

Olivie is the most favorite Russian salad.



There is no Russian party without this salad.
There is no Russian holiday without 'olivie' salad. For Russians it's as traditional as turkey at Thanksgiving table for American family!

This salad is very easy to make. Try our Olivie recipe:

  6 large potatoes
  2 average carrots
  6 eggs
  4 pickles
  1/2 lb of your choice of cooked meat (beef or chicken) or mushrooms (vegetarian version) or shrimps (seafood version)
  1/2 can of sweet green peas
  salt and pepper
  mayonaise or sour cream

Boil potatoes, carrots, and eggs.
Peel and cut all the vegetables in small cubes. Cut pickles. Chop your choice of meat, chicken, mushrooms or shrimps.
Mix everything together. Add peas.
Season with mayonaise or sour cream.
Add salt and pepper for your taste.

Try to make Olivie! It's so delicious!

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Enjoy Russian food and Bon appetite!

Traditional Russian cuisine, an important part of Russian national culture. Bar & Restaurant Stoli goal is to introduce you to the Russian national cuisine, with all its authenticity and originality. Traditional Russian food is a homemade food always prepared from scratch, not a fast food. Russian cuisine chefs prepare wonderful things using meat, cabbage, potatoes, and dough (both bread and pastry).

Lots of choices, such as Golubtsy (cabbage rolls), Zapekanka (meat, potato and cheese casserole) and Blini - crepes filled with beef, chicken, vegetables or fruits, or sweet dumplings called Vareniki or Pelmeni, boiled dough filled with beef, chicken, potato, farmer's cheese or cherries and topped with sour cream, borscht (beet soup), Chicken Kiev, Draniki (potato pancakes), Pirozhki (small pies). Russian dishes include: Russian appetizers (salads) look and smell very delicious, and stimulate appetite, Russian soups are served as the first course, Russian meat dishes are served with vegetables (mostly fried) or with mashed potato, noodles or cereal as well as Russian fish dishes ( sturgeon, salmon are delicacies).