Authentic Western Potato Salad
1.
Wash the potatoes, carrots, and celery first. Steam the potatoes in the pot.
2.
Put the eggs and carrots at about the same time, because the eggs and carrots cook quickly, you can put them later to taste good, otherwise the eggs will be hard and the carrots will be too soft. Steam it until you can easily pierce the potatoes with chopsticks. Try the same method to try the ripeness of the carrots.
3.
In the process of steaming potatoes, you can dice celery or cucumber. The leaves can also be chopped together, if you put ham, the ham should also be chopped. The onion should be finely chopped into chopped onions, not diced onions. After steaming, peel the potatoes and cut into cubes, not too small, between 1.5 cm and 2 cm in size. Peel and dice carrots. Peel and dice eggs
4.
Put the salad dressing in the cut potatoes and stir well,
5.
Add diced eggs and carrots one after another,
6.
Add celery or diced cucumber, pepper, diced ham and chopped onion (you can ignore this step if you don't put it), and mix well.
7.
Finally, add white vinegar to enhance the flavor. Put in the salt, be sure not to salt it, just keep the amount of it yourself.
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Finally, add crushed black pepper (the kind that is freshly ground, not the purchased black pepper)
9.
Let it cool and put it in the refrigerator. It will taste better the next day.
10.
Finished product
Tips:
If you don’t have mayonnaise dressing, you can make it yourself. In the past, the western chefs used an egg yolk (don’t need the egg white, you can steam it and chop it and put it in the salad), add olive oil or salad oil drop by drop (don’t use peanut oil, it tastes), and keep stirring , Until it becomes a thick sauce, add pepper, a little white vinegar and salt, and stir again. The oil must be put drop by drop, otherwise it will be easy to leak, and it will not become a sauce. If it fails, it can be used to make the taste.
This potato salad is a more authentic one. You can also add a small amount of milk. Be careful not to mash the potatoes. It's too thin and doesn't look good. Someone added diced apples, corn kernels, etc., which belonged to the scope of free play, but lost the authentic flavor.