Curried Dill Potatoes

Name: Curried Dill Potatoes
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: South African
Ingredients: 1½ kg potatoes; 1 tbsp white wine vinegar or lime juice; 1 tbsp white wine vinegar or lime juice; 60 g dill leaves, picked off their stalks; salt and white pepper to taste; 2 cups mayonnaise; 2 tsp curry powder; ½ tsp cayenne pepper; 2 tsp sugar; salt and white pepper to taste

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

A Week in the Kitchen

By Karen Dudley

Published 2012

About

I ate something similar at a baby shower a few years ago and then endeavoured to make my own. The sweetness of the dill marries beautifully with the curry mayonnaise. We sometimes call this “Darts in the Garage” Potato Salad – again a hankering towards favourite South African salads of the late ’70s and ’80s.

Ingredients

1½ kg potatoes
2 cups mayonnaise
2 tsp

Africa
South Africa
Side dish
Vegetarian
Gluten-free

Method

Boil the potatoes whole in a large pot of water. Once tender (about 30 minutes), drain and set aside to cool.

Whizz all the remaining ingredients together in a food processor or with a hand blitzer (we call it the zigzigger).

Once the potatoes are cool enough to handle, break them apart gently with your hands into bite-sized pieces. This will make them more receptive to the dres