The perfect: Salad Olovieh (Salad Olivieh)

This is the vegetarian variety without chicken.

Ingredients:
Potatoes 500g: Good quality [suggestion]

Carrots x 3 normal size: Optional [suggestion]
Fresh or Frozen Petits Pois peas 100g [suggestion]
Free range Eggs x 3 [suggestion]

 

Fresh Lime x 2

Hellmann's Real Mayonnaise 600g [suggestion]

Sweet corn – small can

Gherkins 680g: Make sure there's no sugar listed in the ingredients [suggestion]

Onions – 1 x large
Turmeric 1/2 teaspoon

Mustard Powder full teaspoon
Sea Salt - 1/2 teaspoon
Black pepper - 1/2 teaspoon

Mixed herbs – teaspoon full


1. Get the Potatoes ready:
Heat Electric Oven 220°C, Fan 200°C, Gas 7 for 1-11/2 hrs.
Preheat oven. Wash the potatoes well. Dry and prick the skin with a fork. Place directly onto an oven shelf and bake for 1 - 11/2 hours or until the skin is crisp and the flesh tender.

 

If you’re using frozen peas then this would be a good time to prepare those too. Stick them in the oven for a few minutes with a little bit of butter on top, alternatively you can steam these with your carrots.

 

Now start on the eggs.

 

 

 

 

2. Get the Eggs ready: Boil the eggs until the yoke isn’t runny

 

3. Get your carrots ready – you can cut these into small chunks and steam them for 20 minutes for best results.

 

4. While we’re waiting for the potatoes to cook and the eggs to cool, let’s start mixing the rest of the ingredients:

 

In a large mixing bowl, add your

- Sweet corn

- Mustard powder

- Salt and pepper

- Soy sauce

- mixed herbs

- Tabasco to taste

- Juice of two limes

- Turmeric

 

 

 

 

 

5. Chop your onion into very small pieces and add to the bowl

 

 

6. Chop the gherkins into very small cubes and add with the peas to the mixture

 

 

7. Add mayonnaise and mix well

8. In a large mixing bowl, mash up the potatoes and eggs with a fork. Keep them fairly chunky – unless you want your salad ‘creamy’!

 

9. Add your potatoes and eggs to the rest of your ingredients and mix.

 

 

10. Cover the salad with a thin layer of mayonnaise then cover with a cling film and leave to rest in the fridge for about an hour or two to set.

11. Serve on its own or with warm crusty bread.

Let me know what you think.