With a few tips, the potato salad, popular on New Year's Eve, is quick and easy.
Two kitchen appliances are particularly suitable for this.
When preparing
potato salad
,
cutting the potatoes
is particularly
tedious.
But there are tips on how consumers
can chop
potatoes
quickly.
Two
kitchen tools
can do wonders for slicing potatoes.
Offenbach -
potato salad
is definitely one of the Germans' favorite side dishes.
If only there wasn't always the annoying chopping of
potatoes
.
Sometimes the slices or cubes are too thick, sometimes too thin and, in general, cutting them often takes a lot of time.
With these
tricks
you doing the
cutting
of
potatoes
for potato salad quickly out of hand and you can even kitchens professionals to compete.
Potato salad: Annoying potato cutting is very easy with these tips
Hobby chefs from all over Germany meet in the forum area of the “Chefkoch” portal.
When it comes to
potato salad,
one user reveals
her trick to make
cutting potatoes a
lot easier.
Instead of
cutting
the
potatoes
right after cooking, she prefers to prepare them a day earlier.
If you leave the potatoes for the potato salad to stand overnight, they are much firmer than freshly cooked potatoes.
This makes even and, above all, fast
cutting
much easier.
Recipe for a classic potato salad with broth |
|
---|---|
1 kilogram |
waxy potatoes |
120 grams |
Onions |
4 tablespoons |
Sunflower oil |
1 tablespoon |
medium hot mustard |
350 milliliters |
Vegetable broth |
5-6 tablespoons |
White wine vinegar |
80 grams |
diced raw ham |
1 bunch |
chives |
At will |
Salt, pepper, sugar |
Source: Lecker.de |
However, the user points out that the
potatoes will
then no longer absorb as much of the broth.
Another user also swears that the potatoes should cool down before cutting and also has a
tip
for the reduced absorbency of the tuber.
Because after cutting he uses hot
broth
for the
potato salad
.
That way, the potatoes would take on the taste of the salad dressing better.
Potato salad: a few tips for quick-cut potatoes
Another user talks about a trick by his Swabian aunt.
She prefers to use a kitchen utensil to cut the potatoes.
She doesn't pick up a knife, but a grater.
This will shred the
potato slices
quickly and evenly.
However, you need very waxy potatoes for this, otherwise it won't work.
A completely different trick is revealed on the “Frag-Mutti” portal when it comes to potato salad.
Again, cutting with a knife is not recommended.
Instead, you should
simply
chop
the
potato
with the
egg cutter
.
By using the kitchen appliance, uniform slices are obtained with comparatively little expenditure of time.
If you want to invest some money, you can also
buy
a special
potato
cutter.
This works similarly to an egg cutter, but is also suitable for large
potatoes
.
Delicious potato salad: sauces with cucumber water and mayonnaise for delicious recipes
Have you ever added pickle water to
potato salad
?
Cucumber water is good for your health and gives the salad the final pep in taste.
A user on Instagram recommends
using 200 milliliters of cucumber water
for one kilogram of
potatoes
.
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Homemade potato salad: The low-calorie variant is very easy
The Instagram user also has a tip on how to make the
potato salad
lower in calories.
Instead of just
using
mayo
or similar, rich variants, she stretches them with a little yogurt.
This preserves the consistency of the sauce for the potatoes and saves a few calories.
But there
is another trick
that can be used to make
potato salad
, which is actually made with mayo, lower in calories.
The portal “fein cooked” explains this simple trick in a video.
Simply use ingredients that are similar but lower in calories than conventional mayo for the dressing.
For two kilos of
potatoes
, the portal recommends as a dressing:
4 egg yolks
3 tablespoons of sunflower oil
200 grams of whole milk yogurt
150 grams of sour cream
2 teaspoons of mustard
3 tablespoons of white wine vinegar
and, if you like, salt and pepper
(Sophia Lother)