Potato salad (Japanese)
Potato salad (Japanese)

Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, potato salad (japanese). It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

I had Japanese potato salad for the first time a few weeks back at a Zaar luncheon held at a Japanese Tea Garden. I liked it so much that I had to come home and look it up online. I learned that although potatoes weren't a part of traditional Japanese cuisine, potato salad has since become a daily fixture in Japanese lunch boxes.

Potato salad (Japanese) is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Potato salad (Japanese) is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook potato salad (japanese) using 12 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Potato salad (Japanese):
  1. Get 6 large potatoes
  2. Get 1 tsp salt
  3. Prepare 2 tbsp vinegar
  4. Make ready 8-10 tbsp mayonnaise
  5. Get 4 eggs
  6. Make ready 1/2 onion
  7. Make ready 2 cucumber
  8. Take 1 carrot
  9. Make ready 1 tsp salt
  10. Prepare 1 pkg ham
  11. Get Black pepper
  12. Make ready Optional spices: mustard, mustard, lemon or garlic powder

The classic Japanese potato salad is made of mashed potato (leaving some chunks behind), sliced cucumbers and carrots, eggs and sometimes hams. The ingredients are not too different from the western version, but flavoring wise, the Japanese version is always seasoned with Japanese mayonnaise and sometimes rice vinegar. Japanese Potato Salad is a staple in Japanese-household's home-cooking because it's so easy to make, and uses ingredients everyone usually has at home! It has vegetables, carbs, and protein so it could make a nice little meal on its own, but it is usually used as a side dish.

Instructions to make Potato salad (Japanese):
  1. Boil eggs
  2. Peel and chop potatoes into evenly sized pieces
  3. Boil chopped potatoes with 1 tsp of salt
  4. Chop onion, cucumbers and carrot into fine slices.
  5. Mix veggies in a bowl with 1 tsp of salt. Let it sit for 5 minutes for salt to draw the moist out.
  6. Wash extra salt out of veggies and squeeze washing water out of veggies with your hands.
  7. When you can stick a chopstick through a potato without pushing are they ready. Spill out the water and heat 1 minute without water to get moist out.
  8. Mash potatoes so that they remain little bit clumpy. Add vinegar to hot potatoes.
  9. When potatoes have cooled to skin temperature, mix in mayonnaise.
  10. Chop ham into small pieces. Fried bacon or wiener sausage works too.
  11. Peel and chop eggs into small pieces
  12. Mix everything together. Add all spices. This being black pepper. Optionally mustard, mustard, lemon or garlic powder
  13. When mixed, partition and serve or store for later in fridge.

It also makes a great bento box filling! Try out this Japanese potato salad, and we promise that you will not be disappointed. Unlike the potato salads we know and love in the UK, Japanese potato salad contains other exciting vegetables and proteins (ham, egg, cucumber, carrot), as well as an umami-rich dressing full of Japanese seasonings (the most prominent of which being kewpie mayonnaise). What makes Japanese potato salad Japanese? … the secret is in mayonnaise. To make 'Japanese' Potato Salad, you have to use Japanese mayonnaise.

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