Recipe
Spanish Cold Potato Salad (Ensaladilla rusa)
Posted by : unknown
Preparation time : 1 Hrs 30 Min
Cooking time : 30 Min
Level of difficulty : Low
Ingredients
6 servings
- 7 medium potatoes
- 2 roasted red peppers (bottled is fine)
- 1 can peas drained
- 2 hard-boiled eggs
- 1 can tuna, drained
- 1 1/2 cups mayonnaise
- 4-5 white asparagus
- 1 cup green olives
- 2 Big carrots
Preparation
- Scrub the potatoes to clean off any lose dirt and sand.
- Pour water into a large pot, cover and bring to a boil on high heat. Place potatoes in the pot and boil them with skins on until they are cooked, but not too soft. Dont overcook the potatoes. Drain the water from the potato pot and add cold water to the pot, covering the potatoes. Change every few minutes until the potatoes are cool enough to handle with your bare hands. Peel off and cut the potatoes in medium cubes
- Hard boil the eggs.
- Boil the carrots until they are tender and slice them in small cubes.
- Put approximately 1 1/2 cups of mayonnaise into a bowl.
- Slice 1 of the roasted pepper into strips, then cut into smaller pieces and add to bowl.
- Drain tuna thoroughly, then crumble with a fork and add to bowl.
- Drain peas and add to bowl.
- Peel 1 egg, chop and add to bowl.
- Cut the olives and add to bowl
- Cut 2-3 asparagus into small pieces and add to bowl
- Mix all ingredients together.
- Add the mayonnaise mixture to the potatoes and mix thoroughly. If necessary, add more mayonnaise.
- Smooth top of potato salad, preparing for decoration. Slice remaining red pepper into thin strips and arrange on top of salad. Drain the white asparagus and slice hard-boiled eggs carefully. Use both to decorate the salad.
