Ingredients

• 115 gm - potatoes
• 115 gm - carrot
• 55 gm - turnips
• 115 gm - green peas
• 55 gm - French beans
• 1 - hard boiled egg
• 1/2 bunch - lettuce leaves
• 1 - tomato
• 2 - egg yolks
• 1 tsp - mustard powder
• Sugar - a pinch
• 1 pinch - white pepper powder
• Salt to taste
• 1 tsp - vinegar
• 130 ml - salad oil
• 1/2 - lime
• 3 tsp - mayonnaise sauce.

How to Make Plain Russian Salad

• First make mayonnaise sauce.
• Mix yolk of egg with sugar, salt, mustard in a bowl.
• Add pepper and mix well to a cream texture.
• Add salad oil drop by drop, keep beating nicely with a wooden spoon.
• | As sauce gets thicker, moisten slightly with vinegar, and keep adding salad oil and keep beating.
• Taste for seasoning and lastly add lime juice
• Peel potatoes, turnips and carrots and boil separately in salted water.
• Shell the green peas, string and cut French beans into 0.75cm pieces and boil till cooked.
• Mix all the boiled vegetables with mayonnaise sauce, pile over a bed of lettuce leaves.
• Decorate with sliced hot boiled eggs and slice tomato.