Lenten Olivier salad

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 15 mins

1. STEP 1

   

   How to make Lenten Olivier salad? Prepare your food. Boil the vegetables first. Wash the potatoes and carrots, cover with cold water and cook for half an hour from the time the water begins to boil. Boil them directly with the skin on, without cutting off the ends. Cooked vegetables will easily slide off the knife if you pierce them in the middle. Drain the water and cool the vegetables. Drain the liquid from the peas. Do not pour out this brine; it will be needed to prepare mayonnaise.

2. STEP 2

   

   Using a small sharp knife, peel the vegetables. Cut potatoes, carrots, cucumbers and apples into small cubes. The salad will look beautiful and neat if you cut all the ingredients into pieces of the same size and shape.

3. STEP 3

   

   Add peas. The salad is ready, all that remains is to mix it and season with mayonnaise, which we will make ourselves.

4. STEP 4

   

   Prepare mayonnaise. Prepare food for him. Take odorless vegetable oil, it can be either olive or sunflower.

5. STEP 5

   

   Pour the pea brine, lemon juice, salt and sugar into a tall glass and start blending with an immersion blender. The liquid should turn white and slightly increase in size.

6. STEP 6

   

   Continuing to work with the blender, begin to pour in vegetable oil in a thin stream in portions. Do not hurry! The slower you pour, the better the mayonnaise will thicken. Whisk until it becomes a thick sauce.

7. STEP 7

   

   I got the mayonnaise right on the second try. The first time I poured out all the oil at once, and it did not thicken. The second time I poured the oil quietly, and everything worked out. Taste the mayonnaise for salt and add if necessary.

8. STEP 8

   

   Season the salad with the resulting sauce and serve immediately. Bon appetit!

Comments on the recipe

katyshaa

23.10.2023

5

Thanks to the author for the recipe. I always try to dress salads with homemade mayonnaise, or even better without mayonnaise. See Olivier salad with yogurt. Diet recipe.

Natalia M

23.10.2023

4.5

I prepared the Lenten Olivier salad not for Lent, but simply out of interest. It turns out that in this recipe the meat component is replaced with an apple. I took a sweet apple with a red skin. The apple looks beautiful in the salad, but the skin is still a bit harsh, it was necessary to peel it off) By the way, my husband didn’t really like the apple in the Olivier salad, but I really liked it. It was such a fresh note among the cooked vegetables. I would also add green onions here for a sharper taste and brightness. I already had experience with lean mayonnaise based on pea brine, and that time my mayonnaise also came out liquid. This time I did everything according to the instructions. Lenten mayonnaise turned out thicker than last time, but store-bought mayonnaise is still thicker) In principle, this is not so important. The main thing is that the taste of brine mayonnaise goes well with the salad ingredients. A very interesting option for a change! It's delicious and beautiful! Thank you)