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Slonie žrádlo: spicy retro ham salami and pickle salad without mayo
A retro ham salami salad with eggs, pickles, and onion in a cooked ketchup and mustard dressing, without mayonnaise. Serves 8.
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- Prep time
- 30 min
- Cook time
- 5 min
- Total time
- 2 hr 35 min
- Servings
- 8 servings
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Cuisine
- Slovak
Spicy slonie žrádlo, literally “elephant food,” is a retro salad from the Czechoslovak era: ham salami, eggs, sour pickles, and onion are finely diced and tossed with a hot dressing of ketchup, mustard, oil, and vinegar. Unlike Parisian-style deli salad or salami and processed cheese spread, it contains neither mayonnaise nor cheese. It is made in a large batch, chilled to let the flavors develop, and spread on fresh bread or slices of a soft white loaf, for example for New Year's Eve.
Ingredients
Dressing
Gluten-free. If you have celiac disease, buy cured meats, ready-made sauces, ketchup and mustard labeled gluten-free.
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Instructions
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Hard-boil the eggs
12 minHard-boil the eggs for 10 minutes from the time the water begins to boil. Cool them in cold water and peel.
Dice the ingredients
15 minFinely dice the salami, pickles, onion, and eggs and place in a bowl.
Cook the dressing
5 minCombine the oil, ketchup, mustard, vinegar, sugar, Worcestershire sauce, salt, and pepper in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly, and boil for 1 minute.
Combine
3 minPour the hot dressing over the salami, vegetables, and eggs and mix thoroughly.
Chill
2 hrLet the salad cool, cover, and refrigerate for at least 2 hours, preferably overnight. Serve spread on fresh bread or slices of a soft white loaf.
Tip: The salami absorbs the dressing in the refrigerator, and the flavor becomes more pronounced overnight. You can replace the vinegar with 4 tbsp of pickle brine.
Nutrition facts
Approximate values per serving, calculated from the ingredients
- Energy
- 238 kcal
- Protein
- 11 g
- Carbohydrates
- 7.3 g
- of which sugars
- 4.6 g
- Fat
- 19 g
- of which saturates
- 5.0 g
- Fiber
- 0.6 g
- Salt
- 1.8 g
Calculated from the raw ingredients, without frying oil. Where an amount is “to taste”, typical amounts are used. Food composition: USDA FoodData Central and product labels.
This recipe was translated from the Slovak original: Pikantné slonie žrádlo bez majonézy: retro šalát zo salámy a kyslých uhoriek, aj na Silvestra
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