How many potato salad recipes do you personally know? I'm sure you won't name a single one right off the bat, but if you dig into your memory, you will definitely get a dozen. However, you can hardly call them sophisticated. And in general, this is "well, she's tired of these potatoes"
In our country, the attitude towards potatoes is respectful and condescending at the same time. Potatoes are the "second bread", however, in our opinion, it is also the food of the poor. Like, when there is nothing to eat, we chew potatoes.
But you can cook very, very tasty dishes from it. For example, potato carbonara.
We take:
- Several potatoes - 500-600 grams in weight
- One hundred grams of bacon
- Five eggs
- Clove of garlic
- Half a glass of oil (olive oil is desirable)
- A teaspoon of lemon juice
- A clove of garlic (or two or three, if you like it sharper)
- Fifty grams of grated cheese (ideally parmesan, but if it is not, and the other will go, which you like)
- A little greens (what is) and ground black pepper
How do we cook
Boil potatoes or bake them in a peel - whatever you like more. Leave to cool, clean, cut into cubes.
Hard-boiled four eggs.
Cut the bacon into small cubes and fry in a skillet, if it is fatty, it is possible without oil. Melted fat, who does not like it, is not necessary - you can drain it.
Then we make the sauce. Raw egg yolk, garlic, a couple of beds of boiled cold water and a little salt (to taste), break through with a blender until smooth. Then carefully, continuing to beat, pour the oil into the mixture in a very thin stream. It will take about five minutes to beat. Then add the lemon juice just as carefully and beat for another minute. This makes a shiny, thick sauce. We mix it with cheese.
And now we put potatoes in a salad bowl, fried bacon on it, then hard-boiled and chopped eggs (you don't need to chop them, you can cut them into quarters or cut eighties), and... fill it all with our sauce. We mix. Voila.
Bon Appetit!