Also known as: Salată de Boeuf, Romanian Beef Salad
About this dish
A festive salad of finely diced boiled vegetables, meat and pickles bound with mayonnaise and decorated on top.
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Ingredients
🥔4 potatoes, boiled and finely diced
🥕3 carrots, boiled and finely diced
🫛1 cup peas, cooked
🍗400g boiled beef or chicken, finely diced
🥒6 pickled cucumbers, finely diced
🫑2 pickled red peppers (gogoșari), diced
🫙1.5 cups mayonnaise, plus extra to coat
🫒Olives and extra pickles, to decorate
Method
Serves 4
1
Dice all the cooked vegetables, meat and pickles to roughly the same small size.
2
Squeeze the pickles well so the salad isn't watery.
3
Mix everything with the mayonnaise and season with salt, pepper and a little mustard.
4
Shape on a platter and coat the top with a thin layer of mayonnaise.
5
Decorate with olives, pickles and peppers, and chill before serving.
✓ What Makes it Authentic
Salata de boeuf is a must at Romanian Christmas, New Year and celebration tables, and families compete over how finely they dice the vegetables and how elaborately they decorate it.
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