Easy Russian Salad Recipe with Sweet Creamy Dressing
Hello everyone, I am Sumaira. Today I have brought you a very special recipe — my Russian Salad. So let’s start making it.
This is the creamy salad that comes out on our desi (Indian & Pakistani) table for parties and special dinners. Boiled vegetables and fruit together, all folded through a sweet cream dressing — the apple and pineapple are what make it. It looks like a lot of chopping, but everything is cut small and simple, and the whole thing comes together in one bowl.
Everything is step by step below, with pictures from my video. If you want to see any step being done, tap the watch link under the picture and the video will open at that exact moment.
Ingredients
The full list with exact quantities is in the recipe card at the bottom. For the salad you need carrots, potatoes, cucumber, peas, apples and a pineapple. The dressing is cream, mayonnaise and powdered sugar with black pepper, white pepper and salt. Two things that sometimes confuse people: powdered sugar is the same as icing sugar — it is in the baking aisle; and white pepper sits right next to the black pepper in the spice aisle. If you do not have white pepper, black pepper on its own works too.
How to Make Russian Salad
Cut the vegetables and fruit small. Take 4 carrots and cut them into small pieces, and 2 potatoes, cut the same way. Take 1 cucumber and cut it into small cubes. You also need 1 cup of peas. Then the fruit: 2 apples, cut small, and 1 pineapple, cut into small cubes.
Boil the carrots, potatoes and peas. Now boil the carrots, potatoes and peas in water — boil them separately. Boil the potatoes well, but do not over-boil the other vegetables.
Start the dressing. In a bowl, add 1/2 cup cream, 1/2 cup mayonnaise and 1 tablespoon powdered sugar. Mix them well.
Season the dressing. Add 1/2 teaspoon black pepper powder, 1/2 teaspoon white pepper powder and 1/2 teaspoon salt. Mix everything well. Our dressing is ready.
Add everything to the dressing. Add the boiled potatoes, the chopped cucumber, the peas, the apples, the pineapple and the carrots.
Mix and serve. Mix all the vegetables and fruit together well. Our Russian Salad is ready — dish it out in a serving plate. Look at this, a very delicious Russian Salad. Serve it as the creamy side with lunch or dinner — and if you want a fresh green side beside it, try my Green Salad too.
Do try it, and share it with your friends. If you make it, tell me in the comments how it came out.
Easy Russian Salad with Sweet Creamy Dressing
Ingredients
Equipment
Method
- Cut the carrots and potatoes into small pieces. Cut the cucumber into small cubes. Cut the apples small, and cut the pineapple into small cubes.
- Boil the carrots, potatoes and peas in water, each one separately. Boil the potatoes well, but do not over-boil the other vegetables.
- In a bowl, add the cream, mayonnaise and powdered sugar. Mix them well.
- Add the black pepper powder, white pepper powder and salt. Mix everything well.
- Add the boiled potatoes, the chopped cucumber, the peas, the apples, the pineapple and the carrots to the dressing.
- Mix all the vegetables and fruit together well. Dish out in a serving plate and serve.
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Notes
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