Recipe | Salad
Potato Salad

A few variations on potato salad.

Potato Salad (Inspired by Bee Tolman and Simon Hurley)

One of the best pototo salads I ever had was prepared by Bee Tolman and Simon Hurley. Their advice was to only use North American mayonnaise - it certainly worked for them. This isn't exactly what they made, but a slightly healthier version based on yoghurt.

200 ml natural, unsweetened, yoghurt (Greek style or some such)
3 large tablespoons of North American style mayonnaise
Salt & Pepper
1 teaspoon Dijon mustard

  • Mix to make dressing

750 grams new potatoes, boiled
Bunch fresh chives, chopped

  • Put in bowl.
  • Pour over dressing
  • Mix

Potato Salad Meal (Steven Thomas & Galit Haviv-Thomas)

A good solid meal in itself. Tasty and easy to make. Doesn't need any accompaniment.

750 grams new potatoes, boiled
1 punnet of salad cress, with heads chopped off (or chives or something)
1 onion, chopped into half rings (Galit likes her onion chunky)
4 eggs, boiled

  • mix solids

1 1/2 teaspoons mustard with seeds
2 tablespoons of good olive oil
1 tablespoon mayonnaise (preferably North American)
Juice of one lime or lemon
Salt and pepper

  • mix dressing
  • mix dressing with solids

Kumara and Banana Salad

For those who don't know, Kumara is the Maori name for Sweet Potato, although the variety in New Zealand is different to what I can find in the UK.

3 large kumara (900 g), scrubbed

  • microwave on high for 9-11 minutes

  • cut into chunks

2 bananas, sliced
1/4 cup peanuts, chopped blanched
2 spring onions, chopped
1 tablespoon lemon rind
2 tablespoons lemon juice
2 tablespoons oil
1 tablespoon sugar
black pepper

  • add to kumara

  • serve warm or cool

Japanese / Irish / American Potato Salad (Brian)

Brian seemed to just throw a whole bunch of things together, but it worked. That particular flat always used North American style Mayonnaise, and like Bee and Simon's version mentioned above, this seems to make a difference.

Potato, hot, cooked
Real Mayonnaise
Onion
Asparagus, steamed
Lettuce
Wasabi – a smidgeon

  • Chop, mix and serve