Poached Sausage and Hot Potato Salad

Name: Poached Sausage and Hot Potato Salad
Ingredients: 2 large potatoes, scrubbed; 1 smoked sausage; 1 teaspoon mustard powder, or 2 teaspoons French mustard; 1 teaspoon mustard powder, or 2 teaspoons French mustard; 4 tablespoons oily French Dressing; salt and black pepper; salt and black pepper; 1 tablespoon finely chopped onion; a little chopped fresh parsley (optional); pickled onions or gherkins, to serve; pickled onions or gherkins, to serve

Preparation info

2-3
servings

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Paupers Cookbook

By Jocasta Innes

Published 2014

About

A hot potato salad, if you have never tried it, combines very pleasantly with those smoked sausage rings stocked by most supermarkets and delicatessens.

Ingredients

2 large potatoes, scrubbed
1 smoked sausage
1 teaspoon mustard powder

Main course
Gluten-free

Method

Bring two pans of water to the boil. Put the potatoes in one and the sausage ring in the other. The sausage should simmer, not boil, for 5-10 minutes until hot. I think the flavour is improved by removing the polythene wrap, never mind what the makers tell you.

After about 20 minutes, test the potatoes with a fork. When they are tender, take them out and peel them, holding them in a clo