What's so good about a potato salad? First of all, the satiety: I made a quick salad with a potato and - on a garnish for meat or fish, or you can and as an independent dish. And the recipes of potato salads are simply apparently invisible! For example, everyone knows Olivier - what is not a potato salad? And what about the vinaigrette? And it can be called potato. In principle, any salad, which contains potatoes, is suitable for this definition. But really potato can be called only that salad, where the potatoes prevail, and the remaining ingredients only complement its taste. We offer you a choice of potato salads in seasonal and national interpretation, as well as recipes that are distinguished by originality or simplicity of preparation. 
Potato salad in a peasant way
Ingredients:
- Potatoes;
- Onion;
- Mustard;
- Vegetable oil;
- Greenery, salt, pepper.
Preparation: Well-washed potatoes (about five pieces) boil in a uniform and cool, and then cut it into slices. Shred the head of the onion, pomosh, we will chop and chop the greens. We mix for serving a tablespoon of finished mustard, two tablespoons of vegetable oil and a tablespoon of vinegar. Let's salivate, pepper and shake well. Put the potatoes, onion and greens in a salad bowl, mix them and cook with the sauce.
"Spring" salad
Ingredients:
- Potatoes - 500 g;
- Green peas (canned) - 200 g;
- Leaf salad - 1 bunch;
- Radish pink - 1 bunch;
- Green parsley - 1 bunch.
For refueling:
- 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, clean and cut into cubes potatoes. Lettuce leaves are sorted, washed, dried and shred by a large "noodles". Mine and cut the radish slices. All this is laid out in a salad bowl, we add a jar of green peas, chopped parsley (also washed) and dressing with sauce. For the sauce, grind the egg yolk with boiled hard-boiled egg yolk, add sugar powder and salt to taste, and then start gradually pouring the vegetable oil, without stopping stirring the sauce. Mixing everything in a homogeneous mass, we 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 sauce:
- Table vinegar - 2 tablespoons;
- Vegetable oil - 1 tablespoon;
- Sugar and salt are at your discretion.
Preparation: Boil, cool, clean and cut straws into potatoes. Shinkle cabbage and onions. We peel the Bulgarian pepper from the seeds, mine and chop the straw. We put in a salad bowl with a cabbage and onions and lightly mute their hands, so that the vegetables give juice. Then add potatoes and peppers to them and season with sauce. For sauce mix vegetable oil with vinegar, season it with salt and sugar 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 of a new crop, mine it, boil it in a peel, clean and cool it. Cook hard-boiled eggs, cool and clean them. We also boil green beans. Then proceed to cutting the ingredients. Beans are cut into several parts, we cut eggs with lobules, cucumber and onion - cubes, we leave whole potatoes. After that, we shift everything except the eggs in a salad bowl, salt, add sour cream and mix. We serve a salad, decorating it with greens and slices of eggs.
Winter salad
Ingredients:
- Potatoes - 500 g;
- Beet - 250 g;
- Root of horseradish grated - a tablespoon;
- Vegetable oil, salt and pepper for refueling.
Preparation: Cook, cool and peel the beets and potatoes. Chopped vegetables cut into small cubes, add horseradish to them and season with vegetable oil. Salt and pepper are put to taste. Thoroughly mix the salad and let it brew.
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, clean and cut into cubes potatoes. Cucumber and cut with cubes or cubes. Mix vegetables, salt and season with sour cream. Then we start to make a basket. Cut off from a round loaf of rye bread two slices. If the slices are square or rectangular, then cut them out with two semicircles, this is the bottom of the basket. In the bottom we insert salty sticks (on a circle and under an inclination outwards). Then we begin to braid the sticks with the feathers of the green onion - from the bottom up. In the basket we put the salad and decorate it with herbs. 
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 we prepare straws from potatoes. Peeled potatoes we will rub on a special grater or we will cut very thin straws. Then we wash it, several times changing the water to remove excess starch. Washed and dried potatoes quickly fry in the pasted vegetable oil on high heat. Beets are cooked or baked in a microwave, washed and cleaned carrots. Purified beets and raw carrots are also cut into strips, and cabbage is chopped. We mix them and fill it with salt and mayonnaise. We put the dressed vegetables in a salad bowl, put the potato straw on top and saline 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: Fillet of game (you can use a domestic duck or goose) boil in salted water. All vegetables except pickled cucumbers, too, boil, cool and clean. All the ingredients are cut into cubes, salted, with mayonnaise and mixed. Salad we serve, decorating it with greens and black olives.
Canadian salad with baked potatoes
Ingredients:
- Potatoes - 3-4 pieces;
- Canned corn - 300 g;
- Bulgarian pepper - 2 pcs.
For refueling:
- Mayonnaise;
- Sour cream;
- Lemon juice;
- Mustard;
- Garlic;
- Paprika and black pepper.
Preparation: We will make this potato salad with potato straw. We cut the peeled raw potatoes, we rinse the straw in cold water, put it into the frying pan and fill it with water (slightly covering the potatoes). Then bring to a boil, cover the frying pan with a lid and potemm potatoes on a slow fire for three minutes. After that, we remove the straw from the water, spread it on a baking tray, salt and sprinkle a little with vegetable oil. Bake the potato sticks in a hot oven until it is covered with crispy crust. In the meantime, we are preparing a gas station. Mix a glass of mayonnaise and a third of a glass of sour cream, add lemon juice, mustard, chopped garlic and spices to them. The dressing is ready. We will peel the Bulgarian pepper from the seeds, wash it, cut it into thin strips, and put it into a salad bowl. Then add to it corn, cooled potato straw and dress 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: Welded potatoes in a uniform cool, clean and cut into strips. All fresh vegetables will be washed and cut: tomatoes - slices, cucumbers - circles, peppers and onions - half rings. We mix all the ingredients and dress the sauce, for which we combine vegetable oil with vinegar, salt and pepper. Ready lettuce and greenery. Well, now you know how to prepare a potato salad and will be able to apply your knowledge in practice. Moreover, any season is suitable for this dish, there is always potato in every house, and additional ingredients will also be found. You just have to look in the fridge, choose the right foods and make a salad. Cook with pleasure! We advise you to read:
