I love vegetables. Ideas for a vegetarian dinner. Not a big production .

Olivier has been adopted by a dozen other cultures, usually called Russian Salad or Olivier.

Greeks, Italians, Spaniards, Iranians, Cubans, Colombians, the French, most Spanish speaking countries- have something called Russian salad.

Persian Olivieh

Many of the ensalada rusas in Spanish speaking countries that I read online call for beets, potatoes and mayo.

The Finns, Germans, Norwegians, Swedes , Danes have potato and beet salads with a sour cream and/or mayo dressing.

Can’t remember which Russian Salad recipe called for capers- maybe a Greek version of Russian salad. Maybe random, but they work.
With capers below

FWIW, this suggests the original 19th C Olivier Salad included
Capers ! :slight_smile:
http://www.kolarsky.com/family/cookbook/olivier_salad.htm

This type of beet potato mayo salad is common in Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania.

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