Potato Salad with Crunchy Vegetables for a Weekend Snack
A soft potato salad enhanced with pickled vegetables and butter for great texture and rich flavor.
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Boiled potatoes are tossed with pickled cucumbers, carrots, and onions soaked to remove their bite, creating a crunchy texture without being dry. Melting butter into the potatoes while they are hot adds a rich, savory depth, making it also perfect as a sandwich filling.
- Servings
- about 2–3 servings
- Cook time
- 20 minprep not included
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Spiciness
- Not spicy
Ingredients
Ingredients
- Potato3, 300 g
- Cucumber1/3, 80 g
- Carrot1/4, 40 g
- Onion1/4, 50 g
- Butter1 piece, 15 g
Cucumber and carrot seasoning
- Salt1/2 tsp
- Vinegar1 tbsp
Sauce
- Sugar1 tbsp
- Salt1/2 tsp
- Mayonnaise3 tbsp
- Mustard sauce1 tbsp
- Ground black peppera little
- Lemon juice1 tbsp
- Add 1/2 tsp salt and 1 tbsp vinegar to the sliced cucumber and carrot, and let pickle for about 20 minutes.
- Imitation crab meat, ham, or bacon also go very well with potato salad, so feel free to add them.
- If you have cucumber pickles in the fridge, try using them as an ingredient in the salad. It is delicious because you can just slice and add them without any pickling process.
Steps
Prepare and slice the ingredients
Prepare the ingredients for the potato salad: 3 medium potatoes, 1/3 cucumber, and a little bit of carrot and onion.
To eliminate dryness and give the potato salad a nice texture, prepare a small amount of vegetables.
Imitation crab meat, ham, or bacon also go very well with potato salad, so feel free to add them.
Slice the cucumber into thin rounds, and slice the carrot thinly into half-moons.
Finely chop the onion.
Boiling the potatoes
Boil the potatoes
Pour enough water over the potatoes to submerge them and boil. Boil for about 15 to 20 minutes; when a fork pierces through smoothly, they are fully cooked.
If you cut them into small pieces before boiling, it will shorten the cooking time.
Prepping the vegetables
Prep the vegetables
Add 1/2 tsp salt and 1 tbsp vinegar to the sliced cucumber and carrot, and let pickle for about 20 minutes.
Carrots contain an enzyme that destroys vitamin C, and adding citric acid is said to inhibit this enzyme.
Therefore, when cooking raw vegetables rich in vitamins together with carrots, using lemon or vinegar rich in citric acid preserves the nutrition and enhances the flavor.
Pour bottled water over the finely chopped onion and let it soak briefly to remove the pungent bite.
Squeeze the moisture out of the pickled carrots and cucumbers thoroughly. To get a nice, crisp texture, it is important to remove as much moisture as possible.
Drain the onion in a strainer once its pungency has dissipated somewhat. If you like the bite of onions, you do not need to soak them in water.
Making the potato salad
Make the potato salad
Remove the boiled potatoes from the water and mash them while hot. While the residual heat remains, add the butter, 1/2 tsp salt, and 1 tbsp sugar, and mix evenly.
Add the cucumber, carrot, 3 tbsp mayonnaise, 1 tbsp mustard sauce, a little ground black pepper, and 1 tbsp lemon juice, and mix well.
Taste and adjust the sauce ingredients to suit your preference.
With that, the potato salad is finished.
Making potato salad sandwiches
Make potato salad sandwiches
Spread the potato salad thickly on one slice of bread, and I topped it with two slices of cheese. Spread strawberry jam or ketchup on the remaining slice of bread to complete the sandwich.
When making sandwiches and spreading sweet jam, you can adjust the amount of sugar in the potato salad.
Ppunwife's tips
- To get a nice, crisp texture, it is important to remove as much moisture as possible.
- When cooking raw vegetables rich in vitamins together with carrots, using lemon or vinegar rich in citric acid preserves the nutrition and enhances the flavor.
FAQ
Is there a faster way to boil the potatoes?
Cutting the potatoes into small pieces before boiling can reduce the cooking time.
Can I use pickles instead of cucumber?
If you slice and add store-bought cucumber pickles, you can easily finish the salad without a separate pickling step.
How do I reduce the pungency of the onion?
Soak the finely chopped onion in water for a short time, then drain well to mellow its sharp bite.
What other ingredients are good to add besides vegetables?
Depending on your preference, adding ham, bacon, or imitation crab meat makes it even heartier and more enjoyable.
