Golden Potato Salad

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Now, I whipped this up the other day when I had some new potatoes to use up and as we are approaching potato salad season felt it was as good as time as any to blog :-) I was inspired by this Lemony Potato Salad recipe on BBC Good Food but made a few changes - I omitted the chilli as I wasn't after anything spicy here, increased the turmeric to get it really golden in colour, (and also added turmeric to the water to boil the potatoes in) omitted the ginger - but really, only because I didn't have any, swapped the black mustard seeds with regular as again that's what I had on hand, and reduced the lemon juice a bit.

It's a lovely light and lemony potato salad with just a hint of cumin and turmeric to give it a lift and would be a wonderful side dish to summer barbecue meals.

Golden Potato Salad:

450g new potatoes, preferably fingerling, halved lengthwise, skin on
½ tsp each toasted mustard seeds and toasted cumin seeds
2 Tbsp olive oil
3 Tbsp lemon juice (I was lazy and used bottled!)
1 large clove of garlic, minced
½ tsp turmeric
½ tsp salt
Freshly ground black pepper - about 6 grinds
Bunch of fresh chives, chopped

Bring 1.5 litres of water to the boil, add 1 tsp of turmeric and 2 tsp salt. Boil the new potatoes for 15 mins or until tender, drain then plunge into a bowl of ice water just so they are cool enough to handle. Remove from the water and if the skins are falling off then go ahead and remove the skins, if not, just leave them on. Transfer to a large bowl.

Whisk together the olive oil, lemon juice, garlic, salt, turmeric and pepper. While still warm, gently toss the potatoes with the dressing, seeds and chives. It may seem like it's swimming in dressing but it'll absorb more as it sits in the fridge. Cover and pop in the fridge to fully cool, giving it a stir once or twice.

Nutritional Information: for the whole recipe, serves 4 as a small side dish.

Calories: 614

Protein: 10.1g

Fat: 29.1g

Sat Fat: 4.2g

Fibre: 10.6g

Carbs: 84.2g

Sugar: 4.4g

Sodium: 1201mg

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