CARNIVAL POTATO SALAD. Low-fat, Low-cal

Potato Salad: a staple of picnic meals in North America

It's a relatively inexpensive carb.  It can be as simple as potatoes with a few sliced green onions, or potatoes with chopped celery, or potatoes with sliced hard boiled eggs.

Mayonnaise is the binding agent but this recipe used lower-fat, lower-cal yoghurt mayonnaise.  The yoghurt in the dressing needs to be strained for 4 hours or overnight until it takes on the consistency of mayonnaise.

In this recipe 67goingon50 used baby new potatoes, suprisingly inexpensive, for speed.  In the summer, try Sweet Pepperinos, colourful sweet baby peppers, or the lovely thin-skinned red pointy peppers.  But any cooked potatoes and raw peppers will be fine.

Cost: min £2.50
Feeds: 6-8

Ingredients:
   1 kilo baby new potatoes
   100-150 gms raw peppers  
       (67 uses Sweet Pepperinos or thin-skinned red pointy peppers or bell peppers). 
   4-6  hard-boiled eggs 

   2 1/2 cups 0-fat yoghurt-mayonnaise

Method:

1. Line a sieve with a clean wet j-cloth; add 0-fat yoghurt. Leave to strain in the fridge 4 hours or preferably overnight
2. Cut new potatoes into equal sizes.  Drop into a pan of boiling salted water.  Reduce heat to med high.  Cook for 13 minutes or until knife slides through without resistance.  Drain and leave to cool.
3. Wash peppers; remove tops; halve, remove white pith.  Cut into fine dice.
4. Chop eggs coarsely.
5. Mix potatoes, peppers and eggs in a large bowl.
6. Mix 3/4 c/180 ml strained 0-fat yoghurt with 1/4c/60 ml mayonnaise.  Season with salt and pepper.  Add gradually to potato mix until the mixture is well coated.  (You may have some yoghurt-mayo left for use another time.)  
7. Refrigerate until ready to serve.

Tips:

• add a tin of tuna to make a whole meal salad
• for hard-boiled eggs without a sulphurous ring, bring water to boil; add eggs, turn off heat, cover and leave 10 mins.  Drain and run cold water over until cool

More potato salads on NavBar: Recipes II/Salads

Copyright: This recipe has been developed by B M Lee/ Bright Sun Enterprises and may not be reproduced, in any form, without the author's written permission.