Potato Salad
In my opinion, shop bought potato salad is just not worthwhile. The potato seems undercooked and more powdery/bitty than real potato salad should be. So during the summer, when I fancy potato salad I’ll cook up my own. New potatoes are in the shops from around April/May time. The smaller the better but midsize ones are okay too, you just have to cut them down to size. Potato salad is so versatile it goes with virtually everything. I think of summer dinners and I can see a bowl of potato salad on the table. BBQs, Quiche, Steak, Chicken dinners, Fish, and more. In fact potato salad is so good it can just be eaten with some salad.
You need:
New potatoes, baby new potatoes are best but anything small and ideal is fine. Keep the skins on.
Mayonnaise – personally I prefer Hellmans, original or Light goes fine
Some olive oil
A handful of fresh Chives
Method:
Boil the potatoes in water, in their skins. New potatoes do not go as soft as winter potatoes so use a skewer or sharp point of a knife to check on them. When the skewer goes through semi easily then they’re ready. Allow them to cool for at least 20 minutes. You can cook up a batch and leave the rest in the fridge if you wish. Potato salad can be made from semi warm potatoes and cold potatoes. Once they’ve cooled, put the small ones into a bowl and chop the larger ones to smaller manageable sizes and place them in the bowl too. Then chop your chives in 0.5-1cm long sections. Put all of the chives into the bowl with the potatoes. Then drizzle over some olive oil and add a little mayonnaise.
Depending on how many potatoes you have depends on how much oil and mayonnaise you need. Why the oil? The oil means you can use less mayonnaise which can sometimes have an overpowering flavour. You could also mix a little sourcream in with the mayonnaise as this gives a creamier taste.
The chives in this dish really make a difference. I’ve never tried garlic chives in it however normal chives gives a little hint of an onion taste. Perfect for any meal with salad.
- June 23rd '06
I agree about shop potato salad. L makes a beaut potato salad similar to your’s but with boiled egg.
Hmm boiled egg. Never tried that. Could add boiled egg and some chopped spring onion too!
Ack I’m getting hungry now…!