Russian Salad is a delicious food with raw meat, yellow tomatoes, purple cabbage, lettuce, shredded carrots and raisins as the main ingredients, with tomato sauce, manes, salt, pepper and sugar as the auxiliary materials. Russian salad is usually served as an appetizer with mandarin oranges and champagne at New Year's. Another variant is called "Capital Salad", the difference is usually that there are no carrots.