Make a potato salad by picking a recipe from the ones offered here. It could be the simplest version with onion and cucumbers, or a familiar "dressed herring," Olivier or vinaigrette salad in a new take. For example, in the form of a roll or potato tartlets. There are several classic American recipes that came from the potato's homeland. There are vegetarian, lean and Korean-style salads. Look over dozens of presentation ideas, use them as a starting point and come up with your own original way to decorate and serve.
The five most filling potato salad recipes:
| Name of the dish | Cooking time | Calories per 100g | User Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Olivier salad with beef tongue and cucumbers | 1 hour 40 min | 424 | +54 |
| Quick salad | 2 h 50 min | 342 | +8 |
| Quail's nest salad | 1 h | 261 | +5 |
| Tenderness salad with cod liver | 1 hour 15 min | 252 | +197 |
| "Delicious" salad | 1 hour 30 min | 241 | +20 |
The main ingredient — potatoes — is most often boiled in its skin, "in the jacket." Sometimes it's boiled in pieces, baked or fried. Here are a few little tricks that will help any cook.
- Potatoes are cooked "in the jacket" not only in a pot. Try using a microwave. Put the washed tubers in a bag, tie it up and cook for 15–25 minutes.
- Old, green or spoiled ones must be peeled. To keep them from falling apart, put the potatoes in hot water and add a little acid — lemon juice or vinegar.
- Before frying, rinse the sliced pieces in cold water, dry them and dust them lightly with flour. Then they won't stick together.
Five ingredients most often used to make potato salad:
| Product | Calories per 100g | Protein g per 100g | Fats g per 100g | Carbohydrates g per 100g |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Potatoes | 80 | 2 | 0.4 | 18.1 |
| Carrots | 33 | 1.3 | 0.1 | 6.9 |
| Eggs | 157 | 12.7 | 10.9 | 0.7 |
| Onion | 41 | 1.4 | 0 | 10.4 |
| Chicken eggs | 80 | 12.7 | 10.9 | 0.3 |
Making potato salads is very simple. The longest part of the prep is the heat treatment of the potatoes, eggs, meat and mushrooms. To start, try making the simplest recipe.
- Boil the potatoes in their skins and let them cool.
- Cut into cubes of about 5–6 millimeters.
- Finely chop the onion; you can marinate it briefly.
- Mix everything together, add salt and pepper, and dress with sour cream or fragrant sunflower oil.
Here you can add fresh or pickled cucumbers, fried or pickled mushrooms, cooked sausage or boiled meat.
Keep a few important points in mind:
- you can dress these salads with almost anything — mayonnaise, yogurt, sour cream, vegetable oil, French dressing, mustard dressing;
- the dressing is added about 10 minutes after all the ingredients are mixed, so they have time to release their juices;
- at the same time, the potatoes should still be warm to soak up the dressing, but not hot.