• The secret of this salad is lashings of homemade mayonnaise

     

    Warm potato, pickle and spring onion salad

    Serves: 8
    Cooking Time: 25 mins

    Ingredients

    • 10 potatoes, peeled
    • 4 spring onions, thinly sliced
    • 4 pickled cucumbers, thinly sliced
    • salt and freshly ground black
    • pepper, to taste
    • 60ml (¼ cup) honey and mustard
    • vinaigrette
    • HOMEMADE MAYONNAISE
    • 2 large eggs
    • salt and pepper, to taste
    • 5ml (1 tsp) mustard
    • 30ml (2 tbsp) vinegar
    • 750ml sunflower oil

    Instructions

    1

    Boil the potatoes in salted water until just done.

    2

    Cut the potatoes into wedges and place in a bowl with the spring onions, pickled cucumbers, seasoning, homemade mayonnaise and vinaigrette, and gently toss to combine all of the ingredients.

    3

    Adjust the seasoning and, if you like, add more mayonnaise.

    4

    To make the mayonnaise, blend the eggs, seasoning, mustard and vinegar together in a food processor for 1 minute.

    5

    With the food processor still running, slowly add the oil in a thin stream (and think happy thoughts; I have been told that is the key to mayonnaise success – just think happy thoughts; it works every time). 6 Serve the salad warm or at room temperature.