- This recipe is the Greek version of the classic potato salad recipe.
- This Greek potato and feta salad is an easy dish to make, and is best served as an accompaniment to a main meal, or as a light lunch or supper.
- The warm potatoes accentuate the flavour of the lemon and herbs.
- Mixed with a Greek dressing, this salad makes such an appetising dish. This wonderful lemony herb potato dish smells and tastes delicious.
- As with many Greek meals, this is best left to sit awhile for the flavours to infuse and then serve at room temperature.
Ingredients:
- 500g, 1 1/4lb small new potatoes
- 3 spring onions, finely chopped
- 1 tbspn rinsed bottled capers
- 8-10 black olives
- 115g, 4oz feta cheese
- 2 tbspn finely choped fresh flat leaf parsley
- 1 tbspn finely chopped fresh dill
- salt and freshly ground black pepper
Dressing:
- 8 tbspn extra virgin olive oil
- juice of 1 lemon, or to taste
- 3 tbspn Greek yogurt
- 1 tspn french mustard
Preparation:
- Leaving the potatoes whole, in their skins, cook in boiling salted water for 25-30 minutes or until tender.
- Don’t cook them too long to become mushy and start to disintegrate.
- Drain the potatoes and leave to cool.
- When cool enough to handle, pull the skins off with your fingers.
- Cut the peeled potatoes into quarters or cubes if the potatoes are large.
- Place in a large mixing bowl.
- Crumble the feta cheese over the potatoes.
- Add the spring onions, capers, olives, fresh herbs, freshly ground salt and black pepper.
- Toss gently, just enough to mix, being careful not to break the potatoes.
- To make the dressing
- Place the extra virgin olive oil and lemon juice in a small bowl and whisk together thoroughly for a couple of minutes until the dressing thickens and emulsifies.
- It if doesn’t thicken, you may need to add more olive oil.
- Whisk in the mustard, yogurt and season to taste with salt and pepper.
- Pour the dressing over the potato salad and toss gently until the salad is mixed and coated with the dressing.
- If you have time, the flavours will be enhanced if you leave the salad at room temperature for 1 hour before serving.