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Japanese Potato Salad Recipe

Japanese Potato Salad Recipe

Japaneses potato salad combines the best of classic mashed potatoes with a variety of unique ingredients. It's creamy, can be mixed with various vegetables, ham, or other leftovers to make a cozy weekday dinner or a side at a party. It's not too different than western potato salad, but is flavored with dashi and sometimes rice vinegar.
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Total Time 30 minutes
Course: Appetizer, Salad, Side Dish
Cuisine: American, Japanese
Ingredients Method Video

Ingredients
  

  • 2 eggs
  • 3 potatoes
  • 1/4 tsp salt This is needed 2 times. Once for the cucumber and once for the potatoes.
  • 1/2 tsp dashi
  • 5 tbsp mayonnaise
  • 100 g ham
  • 1/2 cucumber
  • 1 tbsp butter
  • black pepper

Method
 

  1. Boil 2 eggs for 7 minutes to make hard boiled eggs
  2. Boil hot water for potatoes
  3. Peel and chop 3 potatoes
  4. Put the 3 chopped potatoes into the boiling water and boil for 10 minutes
  5. Cut a cucumber in half
  6. Thinly slice the half cucumber and add 1/4 tsp of salt
  7. Mix the salt and the sliced cucumbers
    Sliced Cucumbers for Potato Salad
  8. Let the salt and sliced cucumbers sit for 10 minutes
  9. Slice 100 grams of ham into pieces of about 1 cm
  10. Prepare ice water for the boiled eggs
  11. Put the boiled eggs into the ice water (this isn't necessary, but makes it easier to peel the eggs)
  12. Check the potatoes' hardness. If softened, and mash the potatoes in a mixing bowl with 1 tbsp of butter.
  13. Drain the water out of the cucumbers by hand pressing them. Add the hand-pressed cucumbers to the potato mixing bowl.
  14. Add the ham and boiled eggs to the mixing bowl. Add 1 tsp of dashi, 5 tbsp of mayonaaise, and 1/4 tsp of salt to the mixing bowl. Add black pepper for taste if desired.
    Potato Salad Mixing Bowl
  15. Mix all the ingredients in the bowl. You can add additional salt for flavor if desired.
  16. Serve and enjoy!

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