Potato Salad

Name: Potato Salad
Yield: Serves 6-10
Ingredients: 1 bunch chives, snipped, or spring onion greens, finely chopped; salt and pepper; 1 tbsp red wine vinegar; 1 red onion, peeled and finely chopped; 1 tbsp Dijon mustard; 8 tbsp olive oil; 2 kg large new potatoes; a handful of flat-leaf parsley, stalks removed

Preparation info

Serves
6-10

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Soho Cooking

By Alastair Little

Published 1999

About

This salad is best when the potatoes are dressed while still hot. The difference between this recipe and the more normal practice of tossing old cooked potatoes in a commercial mayonnaise is enormous; you might be forgiven for not recognising it as the same dish.

Ingredients

2 kg large new potatoes
salt and pepper

Gluten-free
Vegan

Method

Scrub the new potatoes until they are nearly peeled. A wire pan scourer is brilliant for this. Place in a pan and cover with cold water, at least 3 cm above the spuds, add salt and bring to the boil. While this is happening, make the dressing.

Put all the dressing ingredien