Albanian New Years Eve Salad Sallate Ruse Recipes

ALBANIAN NEW YEAR'S EVE SALAD (SALLATE RUSE)

Steps:

• Soak the beans in water overnight.
• Add beans to instant pot or pressure cooker, add about 3 cups of water and cook in the beans/chili setting for about 1 hour. Add a little longer if you didn't soak the beans. Use natural release function to release the steam.
• Peel the potatoes, dice them and add to a small pot. Start cooking them. Do the same with carrots. Cook separately. Add green peas to a separate pot and cook them too. These 3 vegetables are cooked separately because they need different cooking times.
• Cook peas, potatoes and carrots until you can pierce them with a fork but not until they become so soft like puree. You want the salad to have some shape to it, not become mush.
• Drain the beans, peas, potatoes and carrots. In the meantime dice the dill pickles and slice heart of palm.
• Start by combining potatoes, peas and carrots in a salad bowl. Then add pickles, beans and heart of palm.
• Finally add mayonnaise, lemon juice and salt. Start mixing everything carefully, almost like you're folding the vegetables into the mayonnaise. You don't want to vigorously mix everything together.
• Place salad bowl in the refrigerator.
• Boil eggs and beets separately. Drain roasted peppers (this I used from a jar).
• When salad is ready to be served, add sliced eggs on top, beets and roasted peppers. Decorate with chopped parsley. Serve cold.