New potatoes in green sauce

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    2-4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Good Table: Adventures In and Around My Kitchen

By Valentine Warner

Published 2013

  • About

This is a fantastic accompaniment to barbecued or steamed fish, goes very well with all meat, and is simply a very pleasant little lunch in its own right.

Ingredients

  • 500 g new potatoes
  • flaked sea salt and black pepper

Method

To make the sauce, mix the herbs, garlic, shallot and anchovies together in a bowl. Stir in the mustard, vinegar or lemon juice and oil and leave, covered, for half an hour or so at room temperature to become what it’s meant to be.

Put the potatoes in cold water with a teaspoon of salt and bring them up to a gentle simmer. Cook them for 14 minutes until tender. It is essential that they