How to make homemade Russian salad and ideas to make it delicious

Ingredients of the Russian salad

The Russian salad, also known as Olivier salad, is a salad based on cooked vegetables (usually potato, carrot, green beans and peas) mixed with mayonnaise (here is the formula to make homemade mayonnaise and do not cut it!) and, almost always, boiled egg and canned tuna.

Ingredients for 4 people: 2 potatoes - 2 or 3 carrots - 100 g of round green beans - 50 g of shelled peas - 1 roasted red pepper - 2 eggs - 100 g of tuna in oil - 250 g of mayonnaise - 50 g of olives pitted greens - olive oil - black pepper and salt.

Prepare the vegetables

To make the Russian salad, first, you have to prepare the vegetables. Peel the potatoes, scrape the carrots, trim the green beans and wash all three. Cut the first two into cubes and dice the last.

CLARA trick. If you are in a hurry, you can grab a bag of frozen vegetables containing potatoes, carrots and beans, which is one of the processed foods considered healthy.

Cook the vegetables and eggs

Put the vegetables in a saucepan with plenty of salty water and cook for 10 minutes. Add the peas and boil 2 more minutes. Drain them and let them cool. In parallel, put a saucepan with salted water on the fire and bring it to a boil. Add the eggs, cook them for 8 minutes and remove. Refresh them in cold water, peel them, chop them and reserve them. Find out here how to make the perfect hard boiled egg.

Clara trick. If you want the vegetables to be firmer, when the cooking is finished and before draining them, pass them through very cold water.

Make the mix

Drain the tuna and olives, shred the tuna and cut the olives into rings. Arrange the vegetables in a large bowl and add the mayonnaise, the tuna, the olives and the chopped egg. Drizzle with a thread of oil, salt and pepper, mix well and reserve the Russian salad in the fridge until ready to serve.

CLARA trick. If you want to lighten it up a bit, you can put a light yogurt sauce in place of the mayonnaise.

How to decorate it

Once you have the mixture ready, it's time to decorate it.

CLARA trick. One possibility is to top it with some whole olives, grated egg yolk, chives stalks and accompany it with breadsticks, for example.

Russian salad with piquillo peppers

It is also very typical to add chopped piquillo peppers to the Russian salad or use them in strips to decorate it.

CLARA trick. The pepper can be canned or roasted or roasted. And if you don't have tuna, you can put canned anchovies or sardines instead.

Avocados stuffed with Russian salad

If you want a more current and appetizing version, you can use it to fill some avocados. You just have to cut them in half, remove the bone and part of the pulp, add this to the salad and fill the avocados.

Clara trick. So that the avocado does not blacken, sprinkle it with a few drops of lemon and keep it well covered with kitchen film (without leaving spaces with air) until it is time to fill it.

Russian salad with prawns

Do you want a party version? Put prawns or prawns instead of tuna.

CLARA trick. You can use frozen prawns and sauté them or some prawns they sell already cooked.

Russian salad tartlets

To give it a spectacular look, you can serve it as an appetizer in pre-cooked tartlets and top it with prawns, mussels, baby eels …

CLARA trick. You can also serve it in shots or small glasses if you don't want to add more calories.

Russian salad with smoked salmon

And it is also delicious with smoked salmon instead of tuna.

CLARA trick. For a spectacular presentation, spread salmon slices, spread the Russian salad on top, roll them up and serve them on a bed of lettuce or tender shoots. It is one of our delicious recipes with smoked salmon.