To cook Russian salad you need 3 or 4 potatoes, some medium carrots, 5 or 6 eggs, a jar of pickled cucumbers, a tin of peas, an onion some meat or boiled sausage and mayonnaise. First of all, you need to boil potatoes, carrots and eggs and peel them. Then you need to chop all the ingredients. After that, you need mix the ingredients and add some mayonnaise. At the end of the cooking you may add a pinch of salt and pepper to your liking.