Salad with Marinated Mushrooms and Apples
This salad rides on contrasts: springy marinated mushrooms with a tang, sweet peas, crumbly potato, and a fresh note of apple. Combinations like this are a signature of Soviet-era Ukrainian home cooking, where marinated button mushrooms or honey mushrooms counted as a festive treat.
The key to texture is cutting everything to roughly the same size and going easy on salt — the mushroom marinade already brings salt and vinegar, so dress with restraint. Choose a tart-sweet apple like Granny Smith and grate it right before serving, or it darkens and weeps.
An unusual detail is the dressing of oil whipped with salt and pepper: beating it lets the oil coat each piece more evenly than if you just poured it on. Want it gentler? Swap part of the oil for a spoonful of smetana (Eastern European full-fat sour cream; plain sour cream works). Don’t skip the fresh bell pepper garnish — it adds crunch and color.
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Ingredients
Instructions
Cut the mushrooms into strips and dice the boiled potatoes small.
Grate the apples.
Combine the prepared ingredients and add the green peas.
Before serving, dress the salad with oil whipped with salt and ground pepper.
Garnish with sliced sweet pepper.
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