Three Onion and Potato Salad

Name: Three Onion and Potato Salad
Ingredients: 1 small clove garlic; 2 spring onions; Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper; 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard; 2 teaspoons red wine vinegar; 6 tablespoons olive oil; 2 medium white onions, thinly sliced; 2 medium red onions, thinly sliced; 1½ lb (700 g) very small new potatoes; 2 oz (50 g) butter

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Potato Year

By Lucy Madden

Published 2015

About

Good food is, I think, about contrast in flavours, colours and textures. Sometimes this contrast can become conflict and taste is sacrificed in the cause of novelty. This salad is full of contrast – warm and cold, sharp and bland, red and white – which I think works well.

Ingredients

1½ lb (700 g) very small new potatoes
2 oz (50

October
Wedding/Marriage
Vegetarian

Method

Melt the butter in an ovenproof dish and put in the cleaned potatoes. Bake in a hot oven, gas mark 7/425°F/220°C for 20–30 minutes until they are well browned.

Meanwhile, put the onions into a wide bowl. Make a dressing by crushing the garlic in the salt and pepper, stirring in the mustard and then the