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Ensaladilla - Spanish Potato Salad

This is a very traditional tapas dish and is served all over Spain. It is the most common tapa to be served with a beer.

You will need:

3 medium potatoes
150g fresh frozen peas
120g green beans
1 large carrot
1 small onion
1 small red pepper
2 tablespoons green olives
2 hard boiled eggs
1 medium tomato
1 tablespoon capers

For the dressing:
200ml mayonnaise
1 teaspoon French mustard
1 tablespoon lemon juice

Method

• Wash the potatoes and cut into chunks or thick slices. Peel and dice the carrot. In a saucepan, cook the potato and carrot until just tender. Then add the peas and green beans to the same pan and cook for a further 5 minutes until all the vegetables are done.

• Drain the vegetables and place in a large bowl or serving dish.

• Peel and finely chop the onion, finely dice the pepper and tomato and slice the hard boiled eggs.

• Add the pepper, onion, eggs, capers, tomato and olives to the other vegetables and mix together.

• Make a dressing by mixing together the mayonnaise, mustard and lemon juice in a separate bowl.

• Spoon the dressing onto the salad a tablespoon at a time and mix together, you don't want to overload the salad with the mayonnaise dressing.

• Serve with a garnish of chopped parsley and ground black pepper.