Best Potato Salad Ever!*
Serves 4
500g waxy salad potatoes
6 tbsp mayonnaise (ready-made is fine)
3 tbsp natural yoghurt
1 tsp dijon mustard
4 spring onions, finely chopped
2 gherkins, roughly chopped
Salt and ground black pepper
2 tbsp fresh chives, finely chopped
1 Scrub the potatoes and boil whole in their skins (if using the waxy variety) in a large pan of salted, boiling water for about 15 minutes, or until tender. Drain and refresh under cold running water. Drain thoroughly and allow to cool enough to handle.
2 While potatoes are boiling, make the dressing by mixing the mayonnaise, natural yoghurt and mustard in a large bowl. Stir in the chopped spring onions and gherkins and check seasoning.
3 Halve the potatoes (or thickly slice if large) and add, while still warm, to the mayo mixture. Stir carefully: don’t break the potatoes. (Stirring the warm potatoes into the. mayonnaise mixture seems to improve the flavour as the dressing is slightly “cooked”.
Sprinkle chopped chives to serve.
I tried three different potato salad recipes from the Guardian and this one was that produced the best results for the efforts made. It's very easy, but so good.
*This is the name provided in the Guardian for this recipe. Not my label, but not wrong.
