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POTATO SALADS
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There
are many things that can be added to potato salads to enhance flavours.
Just add what suits your families tastes.
Suggestions
: olives grated
cucumber gherkin spring onions diced carrots mint peas diced salami diced ham bacon grease
kielbasa chunks cheese kransky
Herbs & Spices : tarragon chervil dill thyme paprika chives mint
parsley curry powder chilli powder
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Whole Potato Salad with Bacon and Beans
The ideal summer potato salad for those with home gardens
Ingredients:
500gm baby gourmet potatoes, scrubbed, boiled whole skin on 150gm fresh
garden beans, blanched 2-3 bacon rashers grilled and chopped 1 red onion sliced
1 cup traditional dressing 1 cup
unsweetened yoghurt fresh mint leaves fresh
chopped parsley
Traditional Dressing :
395gm
highlander condensed milk 1 cup vinegar
1 tsp salt 2 tsp dry or prepared mustard
Beat all ingredients together (store 2 weeks covered in
refrigerator)
Method:
Slice
the potatoes in half. Place
the potatoes, beans, bacon and onion in a serving bowl. Combine dressing
and yoghurt and pour over the salad.
Garnish with the mint leaves
and chopped parsley.
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Potato Salad with Spicy Sausage
Take 2 large spicy sausages(
chorizo or any spicy sausage)
cut in half lengthways, a diced onion and gently fry in olive oil. Cut
up into small pieces and set all aside.
Boil 500gms of washed baby spuds with skin on .Place in serving bowl .
Now gently squash the potatoes till the skin is broken. Add sausage and
pour over dressing.
Dressing:
I tbsp dijon mustard 1 tbsp red wine vinegar 1
tbsp of virgin olive oil fresh ground black pepper 1
dollop chives and parsley finely chopped
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Potato Salad V One
red onion
potatoes gherkins capsicum mayo lite
lemon juice season with salt and pepper
Cook Potatoes till just done. Drain and set aside in cool water (if you
want cool potato salad). Chop onion, cube gherkins and capsicum. Mix
into the drained potatoes
Mix mayo lite, lemon juice, gherkin juice
together to taste, season with salt and pepper and mix through potato
mix
Chill for 1 - 2 hours before serving for cold potato salad
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Potato Salad V Two
Cubed cooked potatoes 6 hard boiled eggs, chopped
1/2 cup onion slices
1 tsp salt
11/2 cups salad dressing
2 tbsp prepared mustard dash pepper
11/2 cups celery slices
6 x radish sliced and halved
1 cup chopped green capsicum cherry tomato halves
Combine
potatoes, celery, eggs, radishes, onions, green pepper and seasonings.
Add combined salad dressing and mustard; mix lightly.
Chill. Garnish with
tomato halves.
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Hot Potato Salad
6 med potatoes 2 tbsp chopped parsley 1/2 cup diced
celery 4 tbsp vinegar 4 rashers precooked bacon
4 tbsp salad oil
1/2 tbsp lemon juice salt black pepper
Cook potatoes
with jackets on in salted water. Cool, peel into slices or chunks.
Mix vinegar, salad oil and lemon juice and heat
just to boiling point. Pour half on potatoes, add bacon bits to vinegar oil
mixture, stir and then mix it into potatoes.
Mix in celery, parsley, salt and
pepper and toss gently.
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Cold Polish Potato Salad
6 med potatoes
1 med onion diced
1/2 cup salad dressing
2 hard boiled eggs, chopped
1 tsp paprika salt white pepper
Marinade:
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1/4 cup salad oil
1/4 cup cider vinegar
1 tbsp caraway seeds
Dice
cooked potatoes into large bowl. For marinade pour oil, vinegar, caraway
seeds, salt, pepper into jar, seal. Shake vigorously.
Pour marinade
over potatoes and let sit for 1 hour giving a stir . Now add onion, eggs
and salad dressing and toss. Garnish with paprika.
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Red Spud Potato Salad
Red potatoes
400g bacon celery diced 6 hard boiled eggs
chopped chives salad dressing vinegar
salt pepper
Boil potatoes with jackets on in salt water,
let
cool and slice. Set aside. Now slice up eggs,
celery and chop chives
Using a large bowl, make layer of
potato and add celery, egg rounds and chives on top. Repeat layers. Fry bacon until
crisp. Break up two rashers to small pieces
Save the grease in fry pan. Add salad dressing to pan and cook until
bubbles. Add vinegar, salt and pepper and the bacon bits. Stir. Pour over potato mixture.
Garnish
with eggs sliced in rounds on top. Sprinkle of fine chopped parsley and
the rest of bacon strips on top.
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Sour Cream Potato Salad
1/3 cup Italian salad dressing potatoes cooked in jackets in
salted water, peeled and sliced 3/4 cup sliced celery
1/3 cup sliced onion 4 hard boiled eggs.
1 cup mayo lite
1/2 cup sour cream
11/2 tsp horseradish sauce.
Pour
Italian dressing over warm potatoes, chill for 2 hours. Add celery and
onions. Chop eggs, mix with mayonnaise, sour cream, and mustard.
Add salt
and celery salt to taste. Fold into salad Chill in fridge at least
2 hours. Garnish with fine chopped parsley.
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German Potato Salad
Potatoes cooked diced raw onions 4 slices bacon 1/2 cup water
1/4 cup vinegar
1/4 cup sugar 2 tbsp flour 1/2 tsp salt dash pepper.
Slice
cooked potatoes into a bowl Sprinkle diced raw onions over
potatoes. Cut bacon into small pieces and fry. Remove crisp bacon from fat.
Save for garnish.
In a jar mix 1/2 cup water, 1/4 cup vinegar, 1/4
cup sugar, 2 tbsp flour, 1/2 teaspoon salt and a little pepper.
Shake in sealed jar.
Slowly add contents of jar to bacon fat,
stirring as you would to make a gravy. Pour over potatoes and onions.
This recipe may be doubled.
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