Japanese Potato Salad
The potato salad of Japanese bento boxes and izakaya menus — half-mashed potato seasoned hot with rice vinegar, then folded with cucumber, carrot, egg and ham in rich Japanese mayonnaise.
Ingredients
Ingredients
- 600 g floury potatoes
- 1 small carrot, cut into thin quarter-rounds
- 2 eggs
- 1 small cucumber
- 0.5 onion
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tbsp rice vinegar
- 80 g sliced ham
- 5 tbsp Japanese mayonnaise, such as Kewpie
- to taste black pepper
Nutrition (estimated)
high confidenceRecipe total: 1322 kcal · P 45.1g · C 123.2g · F 73g
Estimated from 9 of 10 ingredients
Approximate estimate, calculated from the ingredients.
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Steps
Steps
- 1Peel the potatoes, cut them into large chunks and put them in a pan of cold salted water. Bring to the boil and cook for 12–15 minutes, until soft right through, adding the carrot for the last 4 minutes. Boil the eggs separately for 9 minutes and cool them in cold water.
- 2Slice the cucumber and onion paper-thin, toss both with half the salt, leave for 10 minutes and squeeze out the water.
- 3Drain the potatoes and carrot, return them to the pan over low heat for 1 minute to steam off the moisture, then lift out the carrot. Roughly mash the hot potatoes with the vinegar and the rest of the salt, leaving some chunks: half-mashed is the texture you want, and hot potatoes absorb the vinegar.
- 4Leave to cool to room temperature, or the mayonnaise will turn oily.
- 5Chop the eggs, cut the ham into short strips and fold them into the potatoes with the carrot, cucumber, onion, mayonnaise and plenty of pepper.
- 6Chill for 30 minutes before serving.
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Questions and answers
How long does Japanese Potato Salad take to make?
About 45 minutes: 25 min prep and 20 min cooking.
What ingredients do you need for Japanese Potato Salad?
10 ingredients: floury potatoes, carrot, eggs, cucumber, onion, salt, rice vinegar, sliced ham, Japanese mayonnaise, black pepper.
How many servings does this Japanese Potato Salad recipe make?
4 servings. The servings buttons above the ingredients rescale every amount.
How many calories are in a serving of Japanese Potato Salad?
About 331 kcal, with 11.3 g protein, 30.8 g carbohydrate and 18.3 g fat. This is an estimate from the ingredients, not a lab analysis.
What cuisine is Japanese Potato Salad?
Japanese Potato Salad comes from Japanese cuisine.
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