Olivier salad

A festive Russian salad of boiled potatoes, carrots, eggs, salted cucumbers, peas and sausage cut into cubes and dressed with mayonnaise, as a cold appetizer.

Olivier salad is a festive Russian layered or mixed salad of boiled potatoes, carrots, eggs, salted or pickled cucumbers, green peas and boiled sausage (or boiled meat, chicken, tongue) cut into cubes and dressed with mayonnaise, with a mild, filling, slightly salty-sourish taste. It is served chilled as a cold appetizer at any festive table.

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Olivier rolls in omelette pancakesRussian cuisine | Appetizers

So, before us is not a conventional, but a very real basin with leftover Olivier. And late or newly arrived guests, to whom this Olivier should be served under the guise of a new appetizer. The first thing that comes to mind are all sorts of salad trees and towers, which the Internet is overflowing with on the eve of the holidays, but this is more a reason for irony than an example to follow. But Olivier in the form of rolls is quite the opposite. We spied this idea in one sushi restaurant. But there, rice was used as a wrapper for Olivier , and rice and potatoes are too much ballast. Nori sheet is also not an option, it goes better with fish salads, not with meat. But egg pancakes are just right. They look sunny and taste great with everything, because an egg is one of the ingredients of the salad, so we put like with like.