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Japanese Potato Salad

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. It also makes a great bento box filling!








There are many potato salads out there, but why is this one called “Japanese” Potato Salad and what is so special about it?  It is the texture and flavour that really makes this a must try recipe. You can have variety of textures in one salad: a typical potato “hoku hoku” texture, a crunchiness from ingredients like apple and carrot, and a creaminess from Japanese kewpie mayonnaise.





Ingredients

·         500 g Potato
·         50 g Onion
·         25 g Carrots or substitute for 50 g apple instead like I did this time
·         25 g Cucumber
·         50 g Ham
·         3 tbs Kewpie mayonnaise
·         1 tbs milk
·         Salt and Pepper to taste

Instructions

1.       Slice the onion thinly then put them on a plate, cover with cling wrap and microwave for      2 minutes on 500w and set aside.*1
2.       Repeat step 1 with the carrot, chopped into small pieces (if using). *2
3.       Peel the potatoes and cut into small chunks. Boil for 10 minutes. Check if the potatoes           are cooked by inserting a skewer. If it goes through, the potato is cooked.
4.       Strain the water from the potatoes, put them back in the pot and shake them around to           rough up the outsides a little.
5.       Mash the potatoes a little, but ensure you leave some potatoes still in shape. *3
6.       Rip or slice the ham into small pieces and slice the cucumber and carrots/apples thinly.
7.       Combine mayonnaise and milk.
8.       Place the mashed potato, onion, carrot/apple, cucumber, and ham into a bowl and add           the  mayonnaise mixture and mix to combine. *4
9.       Add salt and pepper to taste then serve.
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Recipe Notes

*1. Cooking the onion in the microwave brings out the onion’s sweetness.
*2. If you used apple, don’t cook it in microwave like carrot. Just chop them up into small pieces and add.
*3. Mash while the potatoes while they are still hot because the pectin layer containing the potato starch is more elastic when it is hot. If you mash the potatoes after they’ve cooled down, the pectin layer loses its elasticity and starchiness which results in a mashed potato texture like “mochi” (a texture which is opposite to “hoku hoku”).
*4. Add mayonnaise mixture while the mashed potatoes are cooled down to about 50-60 degree Celsius (120-140 Fahrenheit). Mayonnaise penetrates better at around that temperature and also stops the mayonnaise from separating. Other ingredients suggestions are boiled egg chopped up, green peas, sliced apple, raisins.








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