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Homemade Chef's Salad with Potatoes and Carrots
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Homemade Chef's Salad with Potatoes and Carrots with homemade pickled cucumbers

A classic, endlessly popular mayonnaise salad with potatoes, carrots, hard-boiled eggs and peas

⏱ 1 hr 1 min🍽 4 servings 🌍 Mediterranean👩‍🍳 Afoona

👨‍🍳 Method

For the Dressed Salad

  1. 1
    Cut the potatoes, carrot and eggs into small dice.
    KnifeCutting board
  2. 2
    Wash the cucumbers and arrange them in a clean jar, upright and tightly packed, with the garlic and dill between them.
    Jar
    💡Fresh, firm cucumbers, tightly packed and completely covered with water: a cucumber sticking out of the water softens and grows mold.
  3. 3
    Dissolve the salt in the water and pour over the cucumbers until they are completely covered.
  4. 4
    Close and leave at room temperature for 3–7 days, until the cucumbers turn olive green and are as sour as you like.
    💡Taste the water after a day: it should be as salty as seawater. Add salt or water as needed.
  5. 5
    Move to the fridge: the cold stops the fermentation.
    Refrigerator
  6. 6
    Add the pickles, eggs, carrot and peas.
  7. 7
    Gently mix with the mayonnaise, salt and black pepper and chill in the fridge for at least 1 hour.
    Refrigerator
411calories
14 gprotein
43 gcarbs
19 gfat
● protein 15%● carbs 43%● fat 43%

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🔧 Tools needed (3)

  • Refrigerator · Also works: Freezer (Chills faster; don't let it freeze) · Ice bath (Ice bath)
  • Cutting board · Also works: Plate (Large plate, dulls the knife)
  • Knife · Also works: Food processor (Fast, less control over size) · Kitchen shears (For herbs/dough)

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