If the familiar "Olivier" with boiled sausage is fed up, the hostess can safely experiment with its meat component. For example, adding beef, pork, smoked foods or poultry. Especially delicious is Olivier with chicken.

Classic Olivier Chicken Salad Recipe

Ingredients: large chicken breast, 3-4 large eggs, 1 pc. carrots, 3 potatoes, pickles, 5 tbsp. tablespoons green peas (canned), salt, sauce.

  1. Fresh vegetables are boiled until soft and cut into a small cube. They can immediately be sent to a salad bowl and salted.
  2. Peas pour out without brine.
  3. Chicken is cooked in water with salt and seasoning until tender. Then it is randomly cut and poured to the rest of the ingredients.
  4. The cucumber is crushed with a cube along with the peel and also goes to the salad bowl.
  5. Hard-boiled eggs are cut in the same way.
  6. It remains to mix all the products well and season with the sauce. For example, light mayonnaise.

You can slightly modify the classic Olivier salad recipe with chicken to your taste. For example, exclude carrots from it, use boiled peas instead of the canned component, or replace pickled cucumber with fresh vegetable.

With apples - step by step

Ingredients: 3 medium potatoes, 2 fresh strong cucumbers, 2-3 small carrots, large pickled cucumbers, a can of peas, 5 large eggs, 330 g chicken, 2 sour apples, salted mayonnaise mixed with sour cream.

  1. Root crops are baked in the oven until soft, and then cut into cubes.
  2. Eggs are boiled to a solid yolk and are chopped in arbitrary pieces.
  3. Chicken can be boiled until cooked, and sautéed in butter until golden brown. Then it is cut into medium slices.
  4. Both types of cucumbers are chopped into small cubes.It is advisable to put the pieces in a colander so that the excess liquid does not appear in the snack.
  5. Apples are also crushed. If the fruits do not immediately go to the salad, then it is worth sprinkling them with lemon juice so that they do not darken.
  6. The components are mixed, peas are poured out to them without marinade.

The finished "Olivier" with chicken and apple is seasoned with sour cream and mayonnaise sauce.

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Smoked chicken

Ingredients: large smoked chicken breast, 3-4 medium potatoes, 2-3 large chicken eggs, 3 barrel pickles, half a can of canned peas, carrots, 2 large tablespoons of sour cream and mayonnaise, table salt.

  1. Fresh vegetables are baked or boiled until soft. Then they are cleaned and crushed in cubes.
  2. Eggs are boiled. They are also cut into tiny pieces.
  3. Smoked chicken is chopped with short and thick straws. Pickles are also cut.
  4. The components are mixed and salted. Peas are sprinkled to them without marinade.

Dressed "Olivier" with smoked chicken with a mixture of sour cream and mayonnaise.

With mushrooms

Ingredients: onions, 2 fresh strong cucumbers, 2-3 chicken legs, 4 pre-cooked eggs, 2 potatoes, 370-390 g champignons, half a lemon, a handful of seedless olives, salt, half a can of pickled peas, sour cream and mayonnaise.

  1. Legs are boiled in salt water until tender. Next, meat is cut from the bones and cut into small pieces.
  2. Onions are diced and pickled in freshly squeezed citrus juice. It will take about an hour.
  3. Mushrooms are very finely chopped and fried in hot oil with salt. You can add any fragrant herbs to them.
  4. Diced eggs of the same size cut boiled eggs, fresh cucumbers without skin. Potatoes boiled to softness are also crushed.
  5. For dressing, mayonnaise and sour cream are mixed in proportions of 2 to 1. Salt and very finely chopped olives are added there.
  6. All prepared ingredients are seasoned with sauce. Including peas without marinade and onions squeezed from lemon juice.

"Olivier" with chicken and mushrooms is served to guests after a couple of hours of insisting in coolness.

Add shrimp recipe

Ingredients: 130 g of boiled potatoes and a small boiled carrot, 3 hard-boiled eggs, 2 barrel pickles, 140-160 g of smoked chicken, half a red apple, 90 g small cocktail shrimps, 3 tbsp each. tablespoons of fat sour cream and mayonnaise, salt, 1 tbsp. a spoonful of soy sauce.

  1. Smooth neat cubes chopped potatoes, carrots, eggs, pickles.
  2. Before slicing, the apple first removes the peel and seed box.
  3. Shrimps dip in salted boiling water for 3 minutes and then cool. They can be cut in half or added to the whole salad.
  4. Smoked chicken chopped into strips.
  5. Liquid is drained from peas.
  6. For dressing, soy sauce, mayonnaise and sour cream are combined.
  7. All ingredients are mixed, salted and poured with sauce.

Serving such an appetizer in portioned glasses looks especially impressive. You can leave a few shrimp for decoration.

Dietary option with chicken

Ingredients: 2 sour apples, carrots, 180 g chicken, 1 potato, 2 fresh strong cucumbers, 3 boiled eggs, onion, half a can of peas (canned). 4 large spoons of Greek yogurt, salt, 1 teaspoon of mustard.

  1. Root crops are wrapped in foil and baked until cooked, after which they are cut in identical pieces.
  2. Similarly, fresh cucumbers, cooled eggs, onions, apples without peels and seeds are crushed.
  3. Fillet is cooked in salted boiling water for 17-20 minutes, after which it is divided into fibers.
  4. Peas get rid of marinade.
  5. Products combine and salt.

Dressed with a mixture of mustard and Greek yogurt.

What to choose, pickled or fresh cucumbers?

Both salted and fresh cucumbers are great for the salad in question. The classic appetizer includes salted or pickled vegetables. But fresh slices make it more flavorful and light.

Which option to choose, the culinary specialist decides, taking into account the tastes of all the home. By the way, it is not forbidden to combine two types of cucumbers in a salad at once.

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