
Cooking Foods Italian Recipes – Tuna & Pickles Russian Salad
Not really coming from Italian tradition, this tuna variation of the famous Russian salad is one the most common appetizer in Italy: tasty and easy to make I am sure you will enjoy this dish. You can make the pickles and the mayonnaise sauce by yourself or buy them in the market: this is up to you.
Ingredients:
Egg – three
Pickles – two pounds
Tuna, canned – half pound
Potato – one pound
Carrot – one pound
Mayonnaise sauce – two pounds
Capers under vinegar – a bunch
Extra virgin olive oil
I use the following pickles: celery cucumber, carrot, onion, pepper bell, cauliflower.
Use the colander to drip off the vinegar.
Boil the eggs and the potatoes, I add two pinches of marine salt to the water.
Add a bunch of capers to the pickles.
Use the blender to chop tuna, pickles and capers.
Cooking Foods Italian Recipes – Tuna & Pickles Russian Salad
After this add the potatoes and the eggs.
Chop everything small.
Cooking Foods Italian Recipes – Tuna & Pickles Russian Salad
Put in to a bowl.
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Add the mayonnaise.
Mix well.
Then it is ready to be used or conserved in the fridge.
If you keep in the fridge cover with a small amount of extra virgin olive oil.
You can use it on the side of beef or fish dishes.
Just adding ham and bread you can make tramezzino sandwiches with it.
You can also set in a nice plate and decorate with carved pickles, shrimps, capers, olives and send in table as an elegant vegetarian main course to be eaten with fresh bread.
Cooking Foods Italian Recipes – Tuna & Pickles Russian Salad
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