Salad

Salad is considered one of the most popular, tasty and light. Every year, he always appears on the tables in the New Year's Eve. Every year, thousands of housewives prepare it. And millions of people still love salad more than others.

History salad starts with the 60s of the 19th century, when the French chef Lucien Olivier worked in the restaurant "Hermitage". It was there, according to witnesses, salad was presented to the people, where all at once and loved. The recipe of preparation, Lucien Olivier kept in the strictest confidence, and then carried him to the grave, and not revealing public process for the preparation of one of the most delicious salad.

After the death of a French chef, salad underwent terrible metamorphosis, its ingredients have changed the tastes and possibilities of cooks and housewives, even despite the fact that the main part of the salad was known. Perhaps the salad and did not keep all its ancient appeal, but the form in which it has reached us, the taste was amazing

Prescription Lucien salad prepared from meat grouse, although today it is increasingly replaced with boiled meat, ham, sausage. All this hopelessly spoiled salad, and very far from the recipe takes original appearance. Sausage - a cold appetizer, which is necessary in itself. It is very hard to reconcile with the salad ingredients. In order to prepare the most delicious salad, do not need to use the pickles and pickled, not sour apples, and sweet. Cucumbers, apples should be cleaned from the skin, so get sweeter salad. Another prerequisite - all products must be subtle and finely chopped flat cubes. Do not be lazy at least once to try to do so, you will not regret!

In all other salad preparing the usual way. Before serving salad on New Year's table, you should decorate it with sprigs of parsley, slices of chicken.

There is another small trick that will tell you how much to prepare salad. Do not know how to put something to salads enough for all the guests? Take a basis for potatoes - how many people at the table, so many potatoes. Other usual proportions.

When preparing a salad, do not be afraid to experiment, add new ingredients and flavoring stuff. Who knows, maybe your masterpiece will go down in history?