Mom’s Potato Salad and Coleslaw

Name: Mom’s Potato Salad and Coleslaw
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 2.5 ml salt, plus extra for seasoning; 250 ml mayonnaise; 2 medium carrots, peeled and grated; 6 large potatoes; 375 ml mayonnaise; 3 large eggs, hard-boiled; 400 g finely shredded white cabbage; 60 ml seedless raisins

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Simply Delicious

By Zola Nene

Published 2016

About

These two salads never go amiss on the family dinner table and the recipes are very simple. For some reason, however, when my mom makes potato salad, it just tastes better than when I make it. These are best accompanied by Dad’s braaied lamb chops.

Ingredients

For the potato salad

6 large potatoes
2.5 ml salt, plus extra for seasoning
3 large

Dinner
Vegetarian
Gluten-free

Method

To make the potato salad, place the unpeeled potatoes into a large saucepan. Cover with cold water and add the salt.
Boil the potatoes until fork tender and then drain and set aside to cool completely.
Once cooled, peel and dice the potatoes into bite-size pieces. Tip into a serving bowl.
Peel and grate the eggs on the finest part of your gr