Capital salad - 1 cooking recipes

Like its closest relative, Olivier salad, Stolichny is prepared with a different composition and set of products. That is, it is quite possible to find recipes for Stolichny salad with chicken or pork, beef or sausage, even with fish and other seafood. However, the most classic version began with a single version - with chicken.

In the canteens of the middle of the last century they called it “Soviet Olivier”. Its creator was a certain Ivan Ivanov, the chef of the Moscow restaurant in the capital. After the appearance of canned green peas in the country (which, among many other food industry products, was produced using American technologies on their own equipment), Ivanov compiled a recipe for Stolichny in 1930.

It included boiled chicken, green peas, crab meat, and mayonnaise. There were no onions or carrots. Later, when the food situation in the country changed for the worse, some things were added to the salad recipe, others were replaced or removed altogether. As a result, only one mayonnaise remained in the salad from the Ivanovo classic. Instead of chicken, they began to put boiled sausage, eliminated crabs, and added the common onions and carrots, pickled or pickled cucumbers.

Nowadays, as mentioned above, you can find a variety of types of Stolichny salad. Some are so dissimilar that they are difficult to categorize. Nevertheless, the salad is very popular both in our country and abroad. It is simple, tasty, quick to prepare, and decorates any table. And, by the way, it is one of the first to be eaten. Many Russian manufacturers produce it ready-made in plastic packaging. Some cook according to their own recipes. The same composition in them can be reproduced in different proportions, which gives the dish a new taste.