RECIPE
Dutch
‘huzarensalade’ This delicious salad is perfect as a summer meal, but also works great as a buffet dish.
INGREDIENTS ✔ 1 kg potatoes ✔ 6 large Kesbeke gherkins ✔ ½ cup carrots ✔ 2 large shallots ✔ 200 gram cooked beef or veal ✔ ½ cup frozen peas ✔ 8 tbsp mayonnaise ✔ 2 tbsp gherkin juice ✔ salt and pepper ✔ Garnishes of preference
INSTRUCTIONS Peel the potatoes. Quarter large ones, leave small ones whole. Place in a pan, cover with water, season with some salt. Boil and cook. Finely dice the gherkins, shallots (both 0,25 cm cubes), carrots and cooked meat (both 0,5 cm cubes). Bring a pan of water to the boil, add the carrot cubes, cook for 30 seconds, then add the frozen peas and cook another 15 seconds. Drain immediately and place in a bowl. Make the sauce by combining the mayonnaise and gherkin juice. Season strongly with salt and pepper. Slice the potatoes in cubes of 1 cm. Mix the potatoes, gherkins, carrots, shallots, peas, meat and sauce carefully. Dutch people like to eat this salad fridge-cold. Present and garnish in the way you like.
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