Decided to make potato salad today since mum had all the ingredients. I remember that I owe this blog entry to Miss Elaine too. She been bugging me for the recipe eversince she ate my potato salad. I bet she wanna make it for her dearest zz coz she did mention he loves potato salad alot! Lucky zz. This is a very simple recipe. Shld be easy for anyone and its great to bring along for parties. Potato salad seems to be a well-liked dish for many. I am always responsible for the potato salad during the food gatherings with my good friends. My mum used to make them for me. But since it is really easy to do, i learnt to do it for my own. This is a dish you cannot go very wrong. Safe!
Today i am adding tuna in my potato salad..jus for a different taste. You can also add bacon bits for extra flavour. Bacon bits are really easy to make. Jus slice yr bacon into tiny pieces( not too tiny cause they shrink when fried), fry them and soak the oil from the bits using paper towel. You can do this earlier and stock it in the fridge so you can use it whenever u want.
Obviously u need potatos for this. Boil the potatos till cooked (usually ard 20-30mins). Wait for it cool. Peel and cut into cubes as shown above.
The other ingredients i require: Salad cream, Japanese mayo and tuna. Love this japanese tuna! Yum yum! And its serving is small. Jus nice for my salad.
Add pepper and salt to taste. I love to use crushed black pepper for its nice fragrance. Add mayo and salad cream. Addition of mayo and salad cream is up to yr own taste. I usually add more mayo than salad cream because i dun wan my salad to be too sourish frm the salad cream.
The tip is to add moderately.. taste and add more as u deem fit.
I usually add shredded carrot in too. This was 1 of my mum's way to get me to eat carrot and she likes the nice colour it gives to the salad. Its really easy. Jus shred the carrot. Strain away its juice and throw it the carrot shreds into the salad.
Toss everything together well to make sure everything is mixed evenly. Dun over toss! else yr potato will be too mashy.
Here i pour in my whole can of tuna! Toss again!
I like my salad cold. So at this stage, i put my salad in the fridge to cool. I leave the lettuce to the last(jus before you are ready to eat) mum said the lettuce will "give out water" and then the salad will be watery. Not nice.
MY hard boiled eggs! Hmm... i think eggs take ard 10 mins to be hardboiled. Mum cooked the eggs for me. haha!
Mum's good tip. Once the egg is cooked, soak and cool in cold water. Then it wun have that greyish rim-like thing ard the yoke. Look. its true! the yoke is really pretty! No grey rim.
Salad is cooled and i am ready to eat. Twist the lettuce and scatter on top of the potatoes. Slice the egg into eighths and place on top. You can use and egg cutter for this. Usually i will add tomato too but i am jus too lazy today. heez! Toss and its ready to serve.
Thats all you have to get yourself a potato salad. QED!
Time for me to sit back and enjoy my salad!
