As I love potato salad today, I would like to share with you guys how I make mine at home.
It’s rather simple but for me the important ingredient is the potato itself and I want to put the natural potato flavor in front rather than adding too strong flavors which would put the potato flavor to the background.
Even they sell so many types and brands of pre-made potato salad in supermarkets, not one comes close to the taste of a fresh home made one.
The things that are important for a good result are:
Peel after cooking
Cook 20% of the potato a bit longer to have 2 different structures.
Give it some time for the flavors to mix before serving.
Hope you guys will try this one out and give us a comment on how it went.
Ingredients (2 Persons)
500 gr waxy potatoes
5 tbsp mayo
4 tbsp chopped curly parsley
4 tbsp chopped chives
3 tbsp chopped pickled cucumber
Salt and pepper
Equipment
1 cutting board
1 pot (to cook)
1 bowl
Preparation
1. First step is cooking the potatoes, don’t peel them before cooking because we will lose too much flavor. Use waxy potatoes, they have less starch and are better to make a potato salad.
TIP: Recommendation is to cook 80% of the potato until they are just done so they dice without breaking too much and 20% I leave cooking for 3 more minutes, so they become like a smooth puree around the potato cubes.
2. Meanwhile chop the parsley, chives, and pickled cucumber.
TIP: Use curly parsley and no regular parsley, the difference in taste is huge.
3. Next, peel the potatoes and cut them in cubes, size however you prefer them.
4. Put the diced potatoes in a bowl.
5. Add the mayo and the chopped curly parsley, chives, pickled cucumber, salt, and pepper and give this all a good mix. I prefer doing it when my potatoes are still a bit warm, meaning around 30 degrees so the herbs give more taste to the salad.
6. Leave the whole mixture to cool down in the fridge for some hours.
TIP: Making the salad a few hours or even a day in advance will improve the taste, but when making it in advance the potatoes will absorb the mayo a bit more and look dry, so often I advice to put an extra tbsp of mayo and mix it up again just before serving.
7. Enjoy!
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