Name: My Mother-in-Law’s Potato Salad (Okaasan no Potato Sarada)
Yield: Serves 8 as a side dish
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: Cherry tomatoes or strawberries, stems removed and halved through the stem end, for garnish; 3 slices smoked or boiled ham, cut into small pieces; About ½ cup mayonnaise; Freshly ground pepper; ½ Granny Smith or other tart apple; ½ yellow onion, quartered and sliced paper thin; ½ large English cucumber; ½ large carrot, peeled, halved lengthwise, and cut into ¼-inch-thick half-moons; 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice; Salt; 4 russet potatoes, about 2 pounds total weight

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Serves
8
as a side dish

Difficulty
Easy

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Let's Cook Japanese Food!

By Amy Kaneko

Published 2017

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I was surprised when potato salad showed up first in a bento (lunch box) I bought for lunch every day from the corner store, and then on my mother-in-law’s dinner table. Finally, something I recognized! Japanese-style potato salad is a widely popular “adopted” side dish.

The additions of cucumber, apple, and ham are typical of the universally accepted Japanese version of this Western classic. This salad is a great side dish to Hamburg

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