Venetian salad: A festive twist on a classic dish
I often spend New Year's Eve in an intimate setting with family or friends. Everyone brings something to eat, and the time to midnight pleasantly passes with conversations and board games. A salad that you can reach for at any moment is perfect for such gatherings.
A safe solution for the veggie snack is the Venetian salad, which retains the components of the traditional dish but also introduces an element of freshness. One ingredient is key.
A salad that tastes best the next day
There is little time for cooking between Christmas and New Year's Eve. Many people travel between relatives, sometimes hundreds of kilometres away from their current location. That's why a salad you can prepare the day before works so well at this time. Just like the classic vegetable salad, the Venetian salad also reaches its full flavour the next day.
The secret ingredient of the Venetian salad
What adds vigour to the traditional vegetable salad is ham. You can choose a milder poultry cold cut, like turkey, or lean pork ham.
To prepare a large bowl of salad, you need:
- 400 grams of ham,
- 4 medium-sized potatoes,
- 2 carrots,
- 4 eggs,
- 4 pickles,
- 200 grams of canned peas,
- 4 tablespoons of mayonnaise,
- 1 teaspoon of table or Dijon mustard,
- salt and pepper to taste.
Simple recipe for salad with ham and vegetables
- Start as usual – boil the potatoes and carrots with their skins until soft. Be careful not to overcook them, as the delicious salad will turn into a sticky mush.
- After cooling, peel the vegetables and cut them into cubes.
- Boil the eggs until hard and also cut them into cubes, as well as the pickles.
- If you have sliced ham, cut it into squares about 1.5 centimetres in size.
- Add canned peas, mayonnaise, mustard, salt, and pepper.
- Finally, add chopped dill. Mix all the ingredients in a bowl and store the salad in a closed container in the refrigerator.
