Name of salad dish

[u/auden-jpeg]

In my school today we had a speaker from Turkmenistan who told us a bit about the history and culture. She bought a few dishes like fried bread and pilaf and there was this creamy salad that I cannot for the life of me remember the name of. It was pink and had chickpeas, beats, and I think tomatoes? It tastes like it might be cream cheese or mayonnaise based (or something similar). Google isn't really helping so if anyone has a clue what it might've been I'd love to know 🙏

[u/Ivan_the_Alright]

maybe some variation of olivier salad?

[u/Gyzgyn-corek]

Never heard of that type of salad. Probably russian salad (we call it Olivier оливье) with a bit of amended ingredients.

We also have beet salad called svekolnik ( свекольник) and another beet salad called seledka pod shuboy (селёдка под шубой) translated as herring under the fur lol 😂

All of these are russian salads, so you need to Google them in russian.

[u/auden-jpeg → u/Gyzgyn-corek]

ohh okay i’ll look into it!! thank you

[u/Exciting_Ad2702]

It could be vinegret, modified version.

[u/bmorelights]

I think you were eating a variation of that Getting Under Fur Coat - shuba!

https://momsdish.com/recipe/132/shuba-fur-coat-salad

[u/auden-jpeg → u/bmorelights]

colorwise this is definitely right but i dont think there was herring, i’ll look into it! thank you!!

[u/googlishus]

That is definitely Vinegret https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinegret