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Larisa
Just read this recipe and it made me crave some of this salad so bad. Haven’t made it in a long time. 🙂
By the way, I love your site! Great Job!
God bless,
LarisaEstera
I make this salad too but instead of eggs I add chicken breast. It’s delicious.
Oksana K
My hubby boiled potatoes and carrots last night without even saying a word, so i guess i’m making this salad today after work, lol! 😀 He did boil quiet a bit of those, so i might make olivie and shuba (since he boiled beets too, and bought seledka) :-p i wonder how do YOU make shuba? there are so many recipes out there, i haven’t seen one on your site.. yet. Hope you will post it one day 😉 Also, my whole life i did olivie with only picles, so now i want to try with cucumbers and picles!
Thank you so much Olichka!!! <3olgak7
Wow! I guess he was craving some Russian salads:). Very smart of him.
I’ll have to post my shuba recipe sometime. It’s definitely a classic.
Here’s how I put it together:
Seledka, a tiny bit of onions (not a big fan of raw onion, so I add only a smidge), potatoes, mayo, eggs, mayo, carrots, mayo, and top it off with beets. Another way is to place the seledka in the center, it turns out great! Potatoes, mayo,eggs, mayo, seledka, onion, carrots, mayo, and beets. I’ll put up step by step instructions sometime. I actually already took pictures of it and wrote out the recipe, but never posted it:).Oksana K
Thanks a lot for your reply, my olivie turned out to be soo good! the only difference was that i added fresh cucumbers per your recipe, and that make this difference HUGE! Sooooooooooo good! I’m glad i tried 😀
So as far as shuba, yes, you do put it together differently and i’d like to try it your way too… Will wait for your post though, i want to see maybe you have a special technique on applying mayo, as it is such a hassle… 😀T
Try some mayo in a zip loc bag with corner snipped off, just squeeze in a square or circle patterns all over each layer. What I like about this method is that you can control the amount of mayo with size of the hole you cut.
Jennifer
Not sure my family will go for bologna. Would diced hap be okay or is bologna essential for the flavor?
olgak7
Sure, you can use whatever you like, it will just have a different flavor.
milana
THANK YOU for this recipe i loved it my hubby loved it too i use to do the same salad but different and i loving it
GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY!!!!!
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Oksana
Hello dear could you please post salad Shuba? Holidays are almost here and want to practice making this.
olgak7
I’ll try to do it soon, Oksana.
Alicia
Hi Olga! I happened upon your blog while looking for a recipe for salad Olivier. Your blog is just beautiful, and my curiosity was piqued, so I read your “About” section and saw your adoption story. We adopted our beautiful sons from Russia (in 2003 and 2007), and my heart just breaks for families like yours whose dreams were crushed, and of course for all the kids who are left in orphanages there. I know you’ve moved on to foster care, and I pray that you are finding happiness, and hopefully a child to forever be yours. I, like you, just felt compelled to adopt. There was something so balanced about it, to me, to parent a child who already needs a parent, rather than just to create more children. God bless you and your husband. You are both adorable, and I can tell you’ll be wonderful parents. By the way, one of my very good friends, who also gave Russian lessons to my son for several years, is from Belarus, near Minsk. Small world! 🙂
olgak7
Hi Alicia! Thanks for stopping by:).
I appreciate your kind words. We are very happy and love fostering. It’s very rewarding.
lizzie
When I was growing up my mom made Russian salad using diced beets instead of bologna. The salad has a beautiful pink color. Delicious.
olgak7
I think you mush be talking about “Vinegret”. It IS an awesome salad. My Mom made it a lot when I was growing up. You just got me craving it, Lizzie:).
Jess J.
I made this for my Russian language class and they loved it! Thank you for the recipe!
Rose
We are having a baby shower with about 60 people, half are from Russia. I am making American potato salad and Olivie salad. How much Olivie salad should I make?
olgak7
That’s hard to say, Rose. It depends on how much other food you are going to be serving and if your guests will like the “Olivie” salad. I personally would make 3-5 times the amount of this salad, but like I said, it would depend on the people I was having at the shower and how many other food I was serving.
Peggy McNary
My son-in-law is Russian (a naturalized American citizen now), so we make this traditional salad every New Year in honor of his beginnings. The salad is so much better if pickles cured in brine are used, rather than pickles cured in vinegar. Unfortunately, you might have to locate a Russian store or market with European food offerings to find them, but I highly recommend it! We also use chicken instead of game or hot dogs/sausage. Good stuff!
olgak7
This is certainly a traditional salad to have on New Year. I like it with chicken too:).
jd
If you have to choose sweet pickles or dill pickle, which should I go with?
Thank you
fritzi
I made this exactly as posted. I used ring bologna, it was fantastic! Used more mayonnaise at table. Thank you for a great recipe. Your photos are gorgeous and so is that beautiful uniform dice.
Greg Buchanan
Thank you so much for this recipe — just made a quadruple batch of it for an event at my college tomorrow but I fear that more than a little will have disappeared by then. Used a mix of sweet and sour gherkins and a mixture of ham, bolgona and olive loaf for the meats. It’s amazing and I’m shoveling it in my mouth as I type. Thanks again.
olgak7
I’m so happy to hear that you enjoyed the Olivie salad, Greg! That’s awesome:). We make it a lot for family parties and holidays.
Jody W
Hello Olga:
I didn’t see instructions to peel the potatoes or carrots, although your photo shows them unpeeled while being cooked. Do you peel them after, or use with the skins?
olgak7
Peel the carrots and potatoes after cooking them, before chopping them. I will clarify it in the instructions.
stacey
Hi Olga, We made this salad for my daughters girls scouts around the world party where each child brought a dish from somewhere of there choosing. I can say without a doubt it was the best ,most tasty dish there!
People were scraping the empty pans just to get another taste 🙂 We have made it for ourselves now on several occasions. It is simply delicious, thank you for sharing you great recipes!olgak7
That’s wonderful, Stacey! I’m so happy to hear it was such a big hit:). Thank you for taking the time to write.
Kate
This salad came out soooo good! I came here from your sister Milanas video. Thanks for sharing the recipe!
olgak7
Welcome! I’m so happy you enjoyed this Russian recipe:).
Donna Murray
I will definitely make this, what type of pickles do you use, sweet or dill?? Thank you so much. I have never seen your videos, I will look them up. Saw the salad on Milana volg. I’m excited to follow you!!…thank You
olgak7
Welcome! We use dill pickles.
Nancy G Le Claire
Loved it! I would make this again in a heartbeat!
Left out the cucumbers and onions.
olgak7
So glad you enjoyed the recipe, Nancy. Thanks for taking the time to write.
Angelica Kaner
My mother, Olga, would make a combination of Olivie and Vinegret. She would not use meat or sauerkraut. She’d use eggs and beets. Add them to potatoes, carrots, onions, peas. A light mayonnaise. To that I like to add sweet pickles (not too much) and fresh dill. I might add some ham next time. Thank you for this site!
Libby
Olga, I love peas, but hate canned peas. Have you ever used thawed frozen peas?
olgak7
I have used frozen or fresh peas as well, so you can use those instead, Libby.
N. Wilson
Love this salad. Made several times. Always comes out perfect
Marge Boas
I have had this salad. Can’t wait to make it at home!
Thank you.
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