Potato Salad

Potato salad (olivier salad, ruska salata) is a traditional Russian dish. Lucien Olivier created it. It is popular in the post-Soviet states and around the world. In Russia and other post-Soviet states and Russophile communities across the globe, salad has become one of the main dishes on zakuski—snacks tables served during New Year (“New God”) celebrations. In Poland, people serve it at Christmas and Easter. I crave potato salad.
You’ll agree, so I hope you’ll try it soon.

You will need:

6 medium potatoes
200 g beef
3/4 cup mayo
2 small carrots
5 cucumber pickles
1 cup canned peas
3/4 cup sour cream
2 tablespoons vinegar
2 tbs parsley
Salt and black pepper

Procedure:

First, cut the beef into cubes. In a pot, brown the meat on all sides, add water (about 3/4 litre) and simmer until the meat is tender and falls apart. I usually cook the meat for 1.5 hours. I can let it cool completely and set it aside. Boil the potatoes and carrots. Drain the potatoes, carrots and cool. Mix the chopped potatoes, meat, cucumbers, carrots, peas, parsley, salt, black pepper, olive oil, vinegar, mayonnaise and sour cream in a large bowl. Use the remaining parsley and cucumber for decoration.

Vinegar – Property – Sweet, sour, warm; liver and stomach meridians entered.
Actions – Resolve stasis to stop bleeding, calm ascaris, and remove toxicity.
Indications – Jaundice, hematemesis, nose bleeding, abdominal mass, sores and boils, pruritus vulvae, hematochezia, yellow sweat, postpartum anemic fainting, food poisoning

Pickled cucumbers – Property – Sweet, slightly cold; spleen and stomach meridians entered.
Actions – Strengthen the stomach, harmonize the spleen and stomach, promote the secretion of saliva and relieve thirst.
Indications – Diabetes, poor appetite.

Potato – Property – Sweet and neutral.
Actions – Tonify qi, harmonize the stomach, strengthen the spleen, remove toxicity and resolve swelling.
Indications – Stomachache, sores and boils, scalds, mumps and eczema.

Seed of garden pea – Property – Sweet, neutral; spleen and stomach meridians entered.
Actions – Harmonize the spleen and stomach, direct qi downward, remove toxicity, induce diuresis.
Indications – Sores and boils, barbiers, choleraic myospasm.

Beef – Property – Sweet; spleen and stomach meridians entered.
Actions -Tonify the spleen and stomach, replenish qi and blood, strengthen the tendons and bones.
Indications – Weakness of the spleen and stomach, qi and blood deficiency, diabetes, edema, abdominal mass, vomiting with diarrhea, sores and weakness of the waist and knees, consumptive disease.
Cautions – It is contraindicated in case of eating the dead and the sick.

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