Christmas and New Year holidays are always filled with pleasant troubles, anxious expectation of a miracle, joy, meeting with friends. Holiday decorations, of course, is the beauty-tree and decoration Christmas table - all your favorite Christmas salads, "Olivier" and "Caesar," herring "under a fur coat" and "Mimosa", "Garnet Bracelet" and crab. Every housewife prepares them to your, favorite, recipe. And how did these all your favorite dishes?

Hermitage and Olivier

In the second half of the XIX century, a young French chef Lucien Olivier, who has lived for several years in Moscow, decided to open a restaurant. Following the Russian tradition, he called his brainchild restaurant. Soon he realized that his company lacks something special, a French flair. And then a young Frenchman began to cook French cuisine, familiar to him from childhood. And as a sauce he used an improved recipe of mayonnaise. The family was taken in by Olivier add mustard mayonnaise and secret spices that gave the sauce sharpness and piquancy. Soon the restaurant was renamed the Hermitage Restaurant, and surprisingly delicious hearty salad was served as an appetizer Low calorie snacks He received the name of the creator - Olivier.

The recipe known throughout the classical version of "Olivier" includes cooked sausage (which can replace ham, beef or chicken), potatoes, carrots, eggs, pickled (salted, fresh), cucumbers, green peas, mayonnaise, onion and salt. To the dish was tender, the ingredients are cut as finely as possible.

The building, which housed the restaurant "Hermitage", survived until our days. Maybe someday it will place a memorial plaque dedicated to the salad "Olivier".

Great "Caesar"

This salad has appeared relatively recently, less than a century ago. The young Italian chef Cesare Cardini contained in Mexico, a small restaurant called «Caesar's Place», Independence Day, July 4, 1924, was horrified to find that the supply of food ended and he had nothing to feed the restaurant guests gathered to celebrate the holiday. And then an enterprising Italian mixed all that was left in the kitchen and invited guests this institution. To the great surprise of the restaurateur, the resulting dish was pleasant to visitors. What young Cardini surprise guests?

On that memorable day in the kitchen remained bread, lettuce, garlic cloves, a lot of olive oil, eggs Chicken eggs: a universal and irreplaceable product   and delicious Parmesan cheese. Share on lettuce sauteed in olive oil and seasoned with garlic bread slices, Cesare poured their eggs. It is filled as eggs lain exactly 60 seconds in hot, but not the seething water, and acquired the consistency of the sauce. It is this salad, sprinkled with grated Parmesan cheese, salad is a classic version of "Caesar."

Herring "under a fur coat," as a symbol of unity

Loved by many salad has an interesting history of origin. In the troubled 1918 Anastas Bogomil landlord offered the guests an interesting salad. His chef, Aristarchus Prokoptsev, picked herring, which symbolized the proletarians added boiled potatoes (the symbol of the peasantry), bright red beets (blood color and a symbol of the Bolshevik banner) and a French Provencal mayonnaise (a sign of international unity).

Laid out like a salad layers visitors. And to this day herring "under a fur coat" remains very popular salad, but the symbolic value of its ingredients, chefs often do not even suspect.

Salad "Mimosa" - a native of the USSR

Gentle air salad "Mimosa", too, has its own history. The name he received because of the resemblance with flowers mimosa personifying spring. And he appeared in the seventies of the twentieth century in the Soviet Union and rapidly gained popularity.

The basis of lettuce make canned fish, boiled eggs, grated butter, grated cheese, onions and mayonnaise - the products that were available even in the era of deficits. The incredible popularity of lettuce has led to a wide variety of recipes. Now, it is cooked with potatoes and carrots, and rice.

The mystery of origin "Garnet Bracelet"

Another amazingly beautiful salad that will decorate the New Year table - "Garnet Bracelet". Unfortunately, it is not known who the author of this delicious, gentle and original dishes. Easy to prepare, tastes surprisingly harmonious, spectacular design: this wonderful salad on the right is one of the dominant place in the series of festive salads.

Exquisite taste of this dish is explained by a kind and harmonious combination of ingredients. The main components of the salad - it is boiled beets, potatoes, carrots, fresh onions, boiled chicken, boiled eggs, walnuts, garlic, salt, pepper, mayonnaise, and, of course, pomegranate seeds. Everything is laid out in the form of layers bracelet, top salad decorated with pomegranate seeds, laid out in serried ranks.

Salad of Louis XIV

But the stories of the origin of a great variety of crab salad. The most common theory links the origin of salad with Louis XIV, king of France, and a great lover of gourmet variety of delicacies. Second, as unsubstantiated, the hypothesis states that the salad is named after Louis American Davenport, who owned a small hotel in the state of Washington, in which the salad and serve.

Nowadays, crab meat, the entrance to the original recipe salad, crab sticks replaced Crab sticks . Taste this certainly hurt, but the cost of food has decreased significantly. The rest of the recipe has remained unchanged: there are sweet canned corn, boiled egg, cucumber and mayonnaise. Salad is always attractive looks and tastes good.

Maria Bykov

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