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