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Simple Potato Salad

Written by Published on Updated on May 30, 2019 in Lunch, Salads, Side Dish

Hey everyone!! I hope you are all doing well 🙂  So, summer time picnics, great food, gorgeous weather, good friends, does it get any better??? 🙂  Our weekend was nice we had fun, laughed, and just enjoyed our friends company. 🙂 

During the weekend I got a chance to do some power walking early Saturday morning,  on Sunday I decided to just take the day off.  🙂  I try to get out as early as possible before the sun is completely up because power walking, jogging, or just walking in the sun is definitely not something I enjoy.   Even when I was living in Greece, I tried to get everything done early in the morning during the weekends to avoid the sun.  I love the sun when I am at the beach otherwise you will never catch me sitting in the sun like most people do while drinking coffee or eating. I absolutely prefer the shade 🙂

Ok, so about this recipe, it is a simple potato salad greek style 🙂  The original recipe that my mom used to make had no mustard 🙂  I guess because the mustard we had back then was and still is quite strong, that’s why you put it on Hot Dogs! 🙂 whereas if you use Mild Dijon Mustard it is a much better option to spice up the mayonnaise just a tad bit.   So, the next time your going on a picnic to the park or just spending the day in the garden, balcony, terrace, and your having friends over or you just want to enjoy this recipe  yourself 🙂  give it a try and let me know how it turned out. 🙂

SIMPLE POTATO SALAD

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Ingredients
  

  • 500 grams boiled potatoes cut into cubes
  • 300 grams Mayonnaisse
  • 2 tablespoons Mild Dijon Mustard
  • 1 Lemon Juice and Lemon Zest
  • 2 tablespoons Dill diced
  • 2 tablespoons Scallions chopped
  • 300 grams Greek Yogurt
  • Pepper

Instructions
 

  • In a large sauce pan add salted water and the potatoes, and boil on medium heat. When boiled drain water and set aside to cool.
  • In the meantime diced the dill.
  • When the potatoes have cooled off add them into a large bowl along with the diced dill.
  • In a separate bowl add mayonnaise, mustard, yogurt, and whisk.
  • Continue by adding the lemon zest.
  • Whisk until combined and slowly start to pour in the lemon juice.
  • Add the yogurt mixture into the potatoes and combine thoroughly. I added some fresh scallions into my potatoes and also topped the potatoes with fresh scallions. 🙂

 

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Welcome to a small corner of my Greek Heritage. Growing up in New York from Greek parents, was a challenge of its own...but the traditional food, tastes and aromas that my mother cooked always travelled me back to Greece. My mother is a wonderful cook, our house would always have that smell of home cooked food. I remember very clearly that we were only allowed fast food, once a week, that was a huge day for myself and my brother. Jumping up and down in the back car seat, laughing, just being kids. It is true that we all like to eat different foods, taste, smell, even try food that looks different than our regular meals at home and I think that is so natural. In my teens, I was not really into cooking, I enjoyed my magazines after school, listening to music, and just taking a breather. There were times that I would glance at some of my mom's recipes, more out of curiosity than to actually try to cook them. At that time I did not realise that cooking would become my passion one day. Slowly, I would start to look into my mom's recipes a bit more each day and I started to find it interesting as a hobby. Each month I would go into our neighborhood bookstore and pick up my monthly book, until one day I decided to stroll over into the cooking section. That summer was the first time I actually bought a cooking magazine....and I loved it. Cooking and baking started out as a hobby, but now after many years it is my passion. Exploring the cuisines, the spices, the oils, the scents, the variety of smells and tastes that exist. It was and still is an amazing journey without limits. So, come along with me on this adventure, and I hope you enjoy my recipes. Sophie

39 Comments

  1. Ramyarecipes
    July 9, 2018 at 9:52 am  ·  Reply

    Perfect n healthy salad 👍

  2. The Karavali Wok
    July 9, 2018 at 11:16 am  ·  Reply

    Yummy salad 😋

  3. Vero and Canito in the kitchen
    July 9, 2018 at 12:07 pm  ·  Reply

    Delicious salad, Sophie! 🙂 I love potato salads in any way… and will definitely try this one 🙂

  4. mistimaan
    July 9, 2018 at 4:46 pm  ·  Reply

    So tasty

  5. dtills
    July 9, 2018 at 5:55 pm  ·  Reply

    Yummy potatoes!! 😋

  6. Margaret from soulfood101blog
    July 9, 2018 at 7:19 pm  ·  Reply

    I love potato salad! This one sounds yummy!

  7. Diana Tyler (Eccentric Muse)
    July 9, 2018 at 7:41 pm  ·  Reply

    I love potato salad a lot!

  8. PlantsandBeyond
    July 9, 2018 at 7:52 pm  ·  Reply

    Delicious and so filling, Sophie

  9. a little Swiss, a little Canadian
    July 12, 2018 at 2:05 am  ·  Reply

    Delicious potato salad Sophie!😍😋

  10. foodzesty
    July 12, 2018 at 6:03 pm  ·  Reply

    hahahahahhahaahhahahahahaahahha

  11. foodzesty
    July 12, 2018 at 6:03 pm  ·  Reply

    hahahahhahhaha I hear you!!! I am also on a diet so everyone else is eating what Im making hahahahahah

  12. foodzesty
    July 12, 2018 at 6:05 pm  ·  Reply

    ahahahahhah I can absolutely understand what you are going through!! I am also on a diet and everyone else is eating what I m making 🙂

  13. PS
    July 13, 2018 at 7:03 pm  ·  Reply

    Simple easy and perfect side dish!

  14. The Girl Next Door
    July 17, 2018 at 7:00 am  ·  Reply

    I absolutely love potatoes, and love the sound of this salad! 🙂
    We make a potato salad here in Bangalore, India, where I live, too, but it uses curd and is completely different from this one.

    • foodzesty
      July 19, 2018 at 8:06 am  ·  Reply

      Thank you so very much for your kind comment. I had responded to your message but it was not posted uffffff

  15. nafiseseyedbagher
    July 22, 2018 at 7:02 am  ·  Reply

    Can you share more posts for low calories food?

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