What's so great about potato salad?First of all, it is filling: quickly make a potato salad and have it as a side dish for meat or fish, or as a separate dish. And there are so many recipes for potato salads! For example, the well-known Olivier salad – isn’t it a potato salad? And what about vinaigrette? It can also be called a potato salad. In principle, any salad that contains potatoes fits this definition. But only the salad where potatoes predominate and the other ingredients only complement its taste can be called a real potato salad. We offer you a choice of potato salads in seasonal and national interpretations, as well as recipes that are distinguished by their originality or ease of preparation.
Potato salad in a peasant way
Ingredients:
- Potatoes;
- Onion;
- Mustard;
- Vegetable oil;
- Greenery, salt, pepper.
Preparation:Boil well-washed potatoes (about five pieces) in their skins and cool, then cut them into slices. Chop the onion, wash, dry and chop the greens. Mix for dressing a tablespoon of prepared mustard, two tablespoons of vegetable oil and a tablespoon of vinegar. Salt, pepper and shake well. Put the potatoes, onions and greens in a salad bowl, mix them and pour the prepared sauce over them.
"Spring" salad
Ingredients:
- Potatoes - 500 g;
- Green peas (canned) - 200 g;
- Leaf salad - 1 bunch;
- Radish pink - 1 bunch;
- Green parsley - 1 bunch.
For filling:
- Egg yolk - 1 piece;
- Vegetable oil - 100 g;
- Mustard - 1 teaspoonful;
- Sour cream - 2 tablespoons;
- White wine - 50 g;
- Lemon juice - 1 teaspoon;
- Salt, powdered sugar, ground black pepper - to taste.
Preparation:Boil, cool, peel and dice the potatoes. Sort out the lettuce leaves, wash, dry and chop into large "noodles". Wash and cut the radish into circles. Put all this in a salad bowl, add a can of green peas, chopped parsley (also washed) and season with sauce. For the sauce, grind a hard-boiled egg yolk with lemon juice, add powdered sugar and salt to taste, and then gradually begin to pour in vegetable oil, constantly stirring the sauce. After mixing everything into a homogeneous mass, add mustard, white wine, sour cream and black pepper to the sauce.
Salad "Autumn"
Ingredients:
- Potatoes - 2-3 pcs .;
- Sweet pepper - 3 pieces;
- Fresh cabbage - 150 g;
- Onion - 1 pc .;
For the sauce:
- Table vinegar - 2 tablespoons;
- Vegetable oil - 1 tablespoon;
- Sugar and salt are at your discretion.
Preparation:Boil, cool, peel and cut the potatoes into strips. Chop the cabbage and onions. Remove the seeds, wash and cut the bell peppers into strips. Place the cabbage and onions in a salad bowl and lightly crush them with your hands to release the juice. Then add the potatoes and peppers and season with the sauce. For the sauce, mix the vegetable oil with vinegar, season with salt and sugar to taste and shake well.
Lettuce salad
Ingredients:
- Potatoes young - 300 g;
- Eggs - 3 pieces;
- Green string beans - 100 g;
- Fresh cucumber - 1 piece;
- Green onions - 100 g;
- Sour cream - half a glass;
- Salt and greens.
Preparation:We select small potatoes from the new harvest, wash them, boil them in their skins, peel and cool. Boil the eggs hard, cool and peel them. Boil the green beans as well. Next, we start cutting the ingredients. Cut the bean pods into several pieces, cut the eggs into slices, dice the cucumber and onion, and leave the potatoes whole. After that, put everything except the eggs in a salad bowl, add salt, sour cream and mix. Serve the salad, garnished with herbs and egg slices.
Winter salad
Ingredients:
- Potatoes - 500 g;
- Beet - 250 g;
- Root of horseradish grated - a tablespoon;
- Vegetable oil, salt and pepper for refueling.
Preparation:Boil, cool and peel the beets and potatoes. Cut the cooled vegetables into small cubes, add horseradish and season with vegetable oil. Add salt and pepper to taste. Mix the salad thoroughly and let it sit.
Onions basket salad
Ingredients:
- Green onions;
- Rye bread;
- Salted sticks (straws);
- Potatoes - 4 pcs .;
- Fresh cucumber - 2 pieces;
- Sour cream for refueling.
Preparation:Boil, cool, peel and dice the potatoes. Wash the cucumber and cut it into cubes or sticks. Mix the vegetables, add salt and season with sour cream. Then start making the basket. Cut two slices from a round loaf of rye bread. If the slices are square or rectangular, cut them into two semicircles, this is the bottom of the basket. Insert salted sticks into the bottom (along the circumference and at an outward angle). Then start braiding the sticks with green onion feathers - from the bottom up. Put the salad in the basket and decorate it with greens.
Salad with potato strips
Ingredients:
- Potatoes - 2 pieces;
- Chinese (Peking) cabbage - 1 small kochechok;
- Carrots - 2 pieces;
- Beet - 1 piece;
- Vegetable oil;
- Mayonnaise and salt for refueling.
Preparation:First, let's make potato strips. Grate the peeled potatoes on a special grater or cut them into very thin strips. Then rinse them, changing the water several times to remove excess starch. Quickly fry the washed and dried potatoes in melted vegetable oil over high heat. Boil or bake the beets in the microwave, wash and peel the carrots. Cut the peeled beets and raw carrots into strips, and shred the cabbage. Mix them and season with salt and mayonnaise. Put the seasoned vegetables in a salad bowl, put the potato strips on top and salt again.
Neapolitan (Italian) salad
Ingredients:
- Potatoes - 3 pieces;
- Carrots - 2 pieces;
- Marinated cucumbers - 2 pcs .;
- Small beets - 1 piece;
- Celery root - 1 piece;
- Game - 200 g;
- Salt, pepper and mayonnaise.
Preparation:Boil the game fillet (you can use domestic duck or goose) in salted water. Boil all the vegetables except the pickled cucumbers, cool and peel. Cut all the ingredients into cubes, add salt, pour mayonnaise and mix. Serve the salad, garnished with herbs and black olives.
Canadian salad with baked potatoes
Ingredients:
- Potatoes - 3-4 pieces;
- Canned corn - 300 g;
- Bulgarian pepper - 2 pcs.
For filling:
- Mayonnaise;
- Sour cream;
- Lemon juice;
- Mustard;
- Garlic;
- Paprika and black pepper.
Preparation:We will make this potato salad with potato straws. Cut peeled raw potatoes, rinse the straws in cold water, put them in a frying pan and fill with water (slightly covering the potatoes). Then bring to a boil, cover the frying pan with a lid and simmer the potatoes over low heat for about three minutes. After that, take the straws out of the water, lay them out on a baking sheet, salt and sprinkle a little vegetable oil. Bake the potato straws in a hot oven until they are covered with a crispy crust. Meanwhile, prepare the dressing. Mix a glass of mayonnaise and a third of a glass of sour cream, add lemon juice, mustard, chopped garlic and spices to taste. The dressing is ready. Peel the bell peppers from seeds, wash, cut into thin strips and put in a salad bowl. Then add corn, cooled potato straws and season the salad with the prepared sauce.
Potato salad with fresh vegetables
Ingredients:
- Potatoes - 3 pieces;
- Bulgarian pepper - 1 piece;
- Tomatoes - 1 piece;
- Cucumbers - 1 piece;
- Onions - 1 head;
- Vegetable oil - 2 tablespoons;
- Vinegar - 1 tablespoon;
- Salt, pepper and greens.
Preparation:Boil the potatoes in their skins, let them cool, peel them and cut them into strips. Wash and cut all the fresh vegetables: tomatoes into slices, cucumbers into circles, peppers and onions into half rings. Mix all the ingredients and season with sauce, for which we combine vegetable oil with vinegar, salt and pepper. Decorate the finished salad with herbs. Well, now you know how to make potato salad and can apply your knowledge in practice. Moreover, any season is suitable for this dish, potatoes are always available in every home, and additional ingredients are also sure to be found. All you have to do is look in the refrigerator, choose the right products and make the salad. Cook with pleasure! We recommend reading:
