Salad with potatoes, egg, and cucumber
Simple but very tasty, and no mayonnaise. This salad with potatoes, egg, and cucumber uses just a few ingredients you'll always have on hand. It's great for a family lunch or a picnic — it doesn't take much time and turns out quick, tasty, and satisfying.
Cooking method
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Step 1:
How do you make a salad with potatoes and egg? Gather all the ingredients. Boil the eggs for 12 minutes, drain off the hot water, and cover them with cold. Let them cool completely.
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Step 2:
Boil the potatoes in their skins, cool, peel, and cut them into medium cubes. There are two tricks for cutting potatoes more easily into neat cubes. The first: boil them ahead of time, cool them, and let them sit in the refrigerator overnight. Then they won't stick to the knife and you'll get clean, even cubes. If you don't have that much time, just peel them, cut them into cubes, and boil them that way. Then drain and cool.
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Step 3:
Wash and dry the cucumber, cut it into cubes, and add it to the bowl with the potatoes. Be sure to taste the cucumber first — it can be bitter.
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Step 4:
Peel and dice the eggs. Add them to the bowl with the potatoes and cucumber. To make the eggs easier to peel, crack the shells and let them sit in water for a few minutes — the water seeps under the shell and it comes right off.
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Step 5:
Toss the salad gently so it doesn't turn to mush. Add salt, pepper if you like, and the sour cream. You can swap the sour cream for plain yogurt, mayonnaise, or vegetable oil. Rinse and chop the green onion, scatter it over the top, and serve right away.
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Step 6:
Enjoy!
- To keep your eyes from stinging when you slice onions, rinse the onion and the knife in cold water. Rubbing the cutting board with a piece of lemon before slicing keeps it from soaking up the onion smell.
- How can you tell if an egg is fresh? Crack it into a separate dish. First of all, there should be no off smell. The white of a fresh egg will be clear and clean. The yolk shouldn't run; it'll be shiny, domed, and even.
- Since everyone's tolerance for salt, sweetness, bitterness, heat, acidity, and spice is different, always add spices and seasonings to your own taste!
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Ripe potatoes - 80 kcal/100g
- Baked potatoes - 70 kcal/100g
- Mashed potatoes - 380 kcal/100g
- Boiled potatoes - 82 kcal/100g
- Potatoes in uniform - 74 kcal/100g
- Fried potatoes - 192 kcal/100g
- Fresh cucumbers - 15 kcal/100g
- Sour cream with 30 % fat content - 340 kcal/100g
- Sour cream of 25% fat content - 284 kcal/100g
- Sour cream with 20% fat content - 210 kcal/100g
- Sour cream of 10% fat content - 115 kcal/100g
- Sour cream - 210 kcal/100g
- Chicken egg - 157 kcal/100g
- Egg white - 45 kcal/100g
- Egg powder - 542 kcal/100g
- Egg yolk - 352 kcal/100g
- Ostrich egg - 118 kcal/100g
- Ground black pepper - 255 kcal/100g
- Green onion - 19 kcal/100g
- Salt - 0 kcal/100g
