Classic meat salad

Simple hearty vegetable salad with boiled meat. Meat salad can be cooked all year round. All the products for its preparation are available to every housewife. In winter, products for its preparation can be taken from stocks, and in summer it can be prepared with a fresh harvest: young potatoes and lightly salted cucumbers.

Anna

Recipe author

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Composition / ingredients

Servings:

Beef (boiled, can be replaced with pork or turkey)

200

Potatoes (boiled)

Carrots (boiled)

Eggs (boiled)

Pickles

Green peas (canned)

100

Onion

0.5

Sour cream

Mayonnaise

Salt

to taste

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 33 % 6 g

Fats 28 % 5 g

Carbohydrates 39 % 7 g

95 kcal

GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 10 min

Step 1:
How to make a classic meat salad? Boil the vegetables in advance until tender and cool. Peel the boiled potatoes and cut them into small cubes. Put the sliced potatoes in a deep bowl or salad bowl.
Step 2:
Peel boiled and cooled carrots, cut off the tips and cut into small squares. Add to the salad bowl to the sliced potatoes.
Step 3:
Remove the pickles from the jar, cut off the tips. Finely dice and add to the previously chopped vegetables. You can use salted or pickled cucumbers.
Step 4:
Peel boiled and cooled eggs from the shell and cut into small squares. Add the eggs to the previously chopped ingredients.
Step 5:
Boiled chilled meat - it can be beef, pork, turkey (or chicken if desired) - finely chop and add to the salad.
Step 6:
Open the tin of canned peas carefully, drain the liquid and add the required amount of peas to the salad.
Step 7:
If desired, onions or salad onions are added to the salad. It should be peeled from the husk and very finely chopped. If the onion is very sharp, then it can be pre-scalded with boiling water. Add the chopped onion to the salad.
Step 8:
In a separate bowl, mix sour cream and mayonnaise in equal parts, mix. If desired, you can add ground pepper. Add salt to the salad to taste, season with a mixture of sour cream and mayonnaise and mix.
Step 9:
Serve the finished salad chilled as a separate dish or as a cold appetizer to the main course.

Such salads with similar ingredients: "Olivier", "Stolichny", "Winter", "Meat" are very popular with housewives. The products for its preparation can be boiled in advance, so it does not take much time to prepare the salad itself. The result is a delicious hearty salad, which can act as an independent dish for lunch or dinner, and also become a decoration of the festive table as a snack.

It is better to prepare mayonnaise yourself. It will be tastier and healthier. See here interesting recipes for homemade mayonnaise.
Also, as a dressing, you can use not only mayonnaise, but also sour cream or natural yogurt. They can be taken separately or mixed with mayonnaise in any proportion to your taste - this will reduce the calorie content of the dish.

How to cook hard-boiled eggs? So that the eggs do not crack when cooking, put them in cold water and put them to cook on a small fire. Boil the eggs for 9 minutes after boiling, then pour cold water and cool. From a sharp temperature drop, the shell will be better cleaned.