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Burmese Potato Salad Recipe. best potato salad recipes. Copyright © 2021 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

Best Potato Salad Recipes – 8 Potato Salads You Can Eat All Year

Our best potato salad recipes include recipes for a Japanese potato salad that’s part mashed potatoes, a Burmese potato salad with tamarind, chilli, fried onion, and fragrant mint, and my Russian salmon potato salad with jammy soft-boiled eggs, capers, gherkins and dill. While fantastic for summer and spring, these potato salads can be served year-round.

Who doesn’t love a potato salad? Being of Russian-Ukrainian heritage, with mayonnaise running through my veins, I could live on potato salad. Almost. Some of our best potato salad recipes are some of our best summer salads, but they are also fantastic eaten in winter.

One thing I adore about our best potato salad recipes is that they can be eaten year-round. In cool weather, you can serve potato salad warm or at room temperature, while in spring and summer you can refrigerate potato salad overnight and serve it chilled.

Another thing I love about potato salads is that they can easily accompany almost anything, from pork chops and roast chicken to fried chicken to rich curries, as Burmese potato salads often accompany in a family meal.

We have potato salads from everywhere from Japan to Russia, with some of our best potato salad recipes being my Russian potato salad recipes, that include the traditional potato salads my Russian grandmother and mum made, as well as family recipes that I’ve tweaked over the years.

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Best Potato Salad Recipes – 8 Potato Salads You Can Eat All Year

Our best potato salad recipes include potato salads from right around the globe that can be eaten chilled in summer or warmed-up or at room temperature in winter.

German Potato Salad Recipe for a Warm Potato Salad with Bacon, Celery and Scallions

This German potato salad recipe makes a warm potato salad – also called a hot German potato salad – with a dressing of fried celery, scallions or spring onions, and bacon, and it’s another of our best potato salad recipes.

Time things right and you can deliver it hot to the table in autumn or winter or serve it warm-ish or at room temperature in spring or summer. It’s fantastic with chicken schnitzel (or a chicken schnitzel burger) and a side of coleslaw.

While we have the Spanish conquistadors to thank for taking potatoes to Europe in the 16th century – Peru is where potatoes were first cultivated thousands of years ago – and we have the Germans to thank for inventing the classic potato salad.

Northern Germany is where the classic creamy potato salad with mayonnaise originated, which more closely resembles the Russian potato salads I grew up with, such as the Olivier salad.

Southern Germany is the provenance of this German potato salad recipe for a warm potato salad, made with slices of pink waxy potatoes, bacon and onion or scallions, and a hot dressing that was traditionally made with bacon fat, vinegar and mustard.

Of course, the reality is that there are more than just two German potato salads, with regional variations and an infinite array of potato salads made in German homes, in the German diaspora, and in countries where Germans settled, such as the USA.

German Potato Salad Recipe for a Warm Potato Salad with Bacon, Celery and Scallions

Japanese Potato Salad Recipe with Cucumber, Carrots, Corn, Eggs and Ham

Our Japanese potato salad recipe makes a quintessential Japanese potato salad and it’s one of our best potato salad recipes. If you’ve travelled in Japan you may have come across it on the menus at Japanese izakayas (drinking taverns), discovered it in that bento box you bought on the bullet train, or enjoyed it as a side served with tonkatsu. It’s also one of the most versatile potato salad recipes you will make.

While a typical Japanese potato salad comprises partly-mashed diced potatoes, finely sliced cucumbers and carrots, corn kernels, boiled eggs, ham, and Japanese mayonnaise, it’s acceptable to add anything to it really. Japanese cooks will often use it as an excuse to clear out their refrigerator vegetable drawer. There are a few things you shouldn’t change, however…

Thanks to starchy potatoes, the texture of Japanese potato salads is somewhere between a classic potato salad and potato mash, although I have spotted some Japanese potato salads that look like mashed potatoes. Finely sliced carrots and cucumbers are essential and can be sliced with your sharpest kitchen knife or you can use a mandoline. You should also use Japanese mayonnaise, such as Kewpie mayonnaise, along with Japanese rice vinegar

This Japanese Potato Salad Recipe is One of the Most Versatile Potato Salad Recipes You Will Make

Burmese Potato Salad Recipe with Tamarind, Chilli, Fried Onion and Fragrant Mint

This Burmese potato salad recipe makes a light potato salad with tamarind, chilli, fried onion, and fragrant mint. A kick of heat from the mild green chillies, a little sweetness and sourness from the tamarind juice, crunch from the fried shallots, and the perfume of fresh mint make this one of the best Burmese salads to accompany your curries, and another of our best potato salad recipes.

This is a light mayonnaise-free potato salad that can even satisfy potato salad lovers raised on mayonnaise. The simple tamarind-based sweet-sour salad dressing, the crunchy raw onions, fresh perfumed mint, chillies, and crispy fried shallots give this potato salad enough flavour and texture that you won’t miss the creamy mayo one bit.

While this is a fantastic salad for the barbecue or picnic basket, in Myanmar salads typically accompany rich Burmese curries, as they provide such a fantastic contrast to Myanmar’s oily curries, alongside rice and a relish or two. I’ve adapted this potato salad slightly from my favourite Burmese cookbook, Mi Mi Khaing’s Cook and Entertain the Burmese Way, published in 1978, which I highly recommend if you’re a lover of Burmese cuisines.

Burmese Potato Salad Recipe With Tamarind, Chilli, Fried Onion and Fragrant Mint

Fragrant Potato Salad Recipe with Garden Peas, Fresh Herbs and Aromatic Spices

This potato salad recipe with peas, fresh herbs and fragrant spices makes a bright, aromatic salad inspired by some of my favourite potato salads and fresh herb salads. It comes together quickly – you’ll spend more time waiting for the potatoes to boil then cool down than you’ll spend cooking – and is a fantastic side to so many dishes.

My recipe makes a fragrant potato salad that’s something of a fusion salad. It’s inspired by a perfumed herb salad by chef Chalee Kader of one of our favourite Bangkok restaurants, the zesty Burmese potato salad above, a Persian salad by Lucy and Greg Malouf which I came across in Australia Gourmet Traveller from their book New Feast, and Russian potato salads, and it’s absolutely delicious.

A lover of potato salads, I’ve been pondering whether I could combine a potato salad with Chalee’s herb salad since we first fell in love with it at his restaurant, 100 Mahaseth, some years ago, but I didn’t think it would work. It took a few other potato salads, each of which provided food for thought, to convince me it would. Fortunately, it did, and now I’m hooked.

Fragrant Potato Salad Recipe with Garden Peas, Fresh Herbs and Aromatic Spices

Russian Salmon Potato Salad Recipe with Soft-Boiled Eggs

One of my favourite potato salads, my Russian salmon potato salad recipe with soft-boiled eggs, capers, gherkins and dill makes a filling salad that you can definitely eat year-round. In the cool season, you can serve it with warm potatoes and seared salmon straight from the pan, while in summer it can be refrigerated for warm weather meals, such as barbecues and picnics.

In summer and spring, I suggest dressing it with little else but extra virgin olive oil, quality sea salt and good ground black pepper, but in winter, I strongly recommend adding creamy mayonnaise and combining everything well. In that case, the runnier the eggs the better, but otherwise, in warm weather, soft jammy eggs are what you want. Terence has an excellent guide to boiling perfect eggs every time.

This Russian salmon potato salad recipe is another of our best potato salad recipes. It was a bit special and generally only made appearances on holidays, such as Russian Orthodox Easter and Russian Christmas (which is today!) when baba and mum would top it with spoonfuls of Russian caviar. If you enjoy this, you’ll find more of my Russian family recipes here.

Russian Salmon Potato Salad Recipe with Soft-Boiled Eggs, Gherkins, Capers and Dill

Russian Beetroot Potato Salad Recipe

This Russian beetroot potato salad recipe makes vinegret (ВИНЕГРЕТ in Russian), a creamy pink potato and beetroot salad that is fragrant with dill and delightfully tangy, thanks to the gherkins and capers. Based on my Baboushka’s recipe, it was a staple at family meals and holiday feasts, Sunday lunches and summer picnics, and it’s another of our best potato salad recipes.

I’ve been making it for as long as I can remember, and always make it for Russian Christmas and Russian Easter when I spend some days cooking the Russian food I learnt to make in the kitchens of my mother and grandmother as a child growing up in western Sydney. There would rarely be a family meal without this Russian beet potato salad and my mum made it every time we had a backyard barbecue.

Despite the fact I can make it in my sleep, this beetroot and potato salad turns out a little differently each time and the main difference is the colour. It could be a pale pink like the salad below or a deep dark ruby-pink in this photo. Fresh beetroots always result in a more vibrant colour than tinned beetroots. I definitely recommend the former.

Russian Beetroot Potato Salad Recipe for Family Meals and Holiday Feasts

Russian Potato Salad Recipe for the Olivier Salad

This Russian potato salad recipe for Olivier Salad is another of our best potato salad recipes. It makes a Russian salad dating to the 1860s, when it was invented at a celebrated Moscow restaurant. Served at family meals, especially at Russian Easter and Christmas, it’s another fantastic potato salad for barbecues and picnics but is also a filling winter salad served as a side to steak, sausages or roast.

My potato salad recipe makes the modern take on the Olivier salad, which was invented by the chef of a famed Moscow restaurant in the 19th century, and popularised in the 20th century during the Soviet period. The potato salad recipe would then go on to travel the world, becoming known as ensalada Rusa (see below) everywhere from Madrid to Mexico, Barcelona to Buenos Aires.

The typical Soviet-era Russian potato salad ingredients list included potatoes, carrots, onion, peas, gherkins, and mayonnaise, which was ever-present. Mayonnaise was considered to be the glue that bound the Soviet states together.

The original Olivier salad was more luxurious, comprised of seasonal ingredients such as crayfish tails, caviar, smoked duck, veal tongue, grouse, and capers. While ingredients were diced, it didn’t contain potato.

Russian Potato Salad Recipe for the Olivier Salad Also Known as Ensalada Rusa

Spanish Potato Salad Recipe for Ensaladilla Rusa

This Spanish potato salad recipe makes ensaladilla Rusa or ensalada Rusa, one of the most popular Spanish tapas dishes found in tapas bars in Spain and abroad, and it’s another of our best potato salad recipes.

‘Ensalada’ means ‘salad’ in Spanish and when you see ensalada Rusa on a menu, it will usually come as an appetiser size that’s called ‘raciones’. ‘Ensaladilla’ means little salad and is a smaller size potato salad in the typical tapas snack size. And ‘Rusa’ of course means Russia.

My recipe is based on an ensaladilla Rusa recipe by British born chef Marc Fosh who has lived in Spain for decades. In his original recipe, the chef boils the potatoes, carrots, peas, and beans. I don’t love soft olive-coloured peas and beans, so I blanche the beans and peas so they’re still bright green and firm. 

The chef includes green olives in his recipe but I like more tang, crunch and acidity, so I’ve included a teaspoon of pickled onions (see my recipe for pink pickled shallots), which I’ve chopped finely, and tiny capers in brine. If you can only find the larger capers, best to chop them in thirds.

In Spain, this creamy potato salad is typically served with crunchy mini breadsticks called picos, but we mostly serve it with toasted baguette slices brushed with extra virgin olive oil.

Spanish Potato Salad Recipe for the Popular Spanish Tapas Dish Ensaladilla Rusa

Do let us know if you make any of our best potato salad recipes in the comments below, by email or tag us on social media if you share them. We’d love to know how they turn out for you.

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A travel and food writer who has experienced over 70 countries and written for The Guardian, Australian Gourmet Traveller, Feast, Delicious, National Geographic Traveller, Conde Nast Traveller, Travel+Leisure Southeast Asia, DestinAsian, TIME, CNN, The Independent, The Telegraph, Sunday Times Travel Magazine, AFAR, Wanderlust, International Traveller, Get Lost, Four Seasons Magazine, Fah Thai, Sawasdee, and more, as well as authored more than 40 guidebooks for Lonely Planet, DK, Footprint, Rough Guides, Fodors, Thomas Cook, and AA Guides.

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Still looking for Christmas cooking inspo? Check o Still looking for Christmas cooking inspo? Check out our seafood recipe collection, especially if you celebrate Christmas on Christmas Eve with a fish focused meal in the Southern Italian tradition, transformed by Italian-Americans into the Feast of the Seven Fishes, or like Australians, who celebrate Christmas in the sweltering summer, feast on seafood for Christmas Day lunch, we’ve got lots of easy seafood recipes for you.

Our recipes include a classic prawn cocktail, blini with smoked salmon, a ceviche-style appetiser, and devilled eggs with caviar. We’ve also got recipes for fish soup, seafood pies and pastas, salmon tray bake, and crispy salmon with creamy mashed potatoes.

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If you’re still looking for food inspo for Chris If you’re still looking for food inspo for Christmas Eve or Christmas Day meals, my smoked salmon ‘carpaccio’ recipe is one of dozens of recipes in this compilation of our best Christmas recipes (link below). 

The Christmas recipe compilation includes collections of our best Christmas breakfast recipes, best Christmas brunch recipes, best Christmas starter recipes, best Christmas cocktails, best Christmas dessert recipes, and homemade edible Christmas gifts and more.

My smoked salmon carpaccio recipe makes an easy elegant appetiser that’s made in minutes. If you’re having guests over, you can make the dish ahead by assembling the salmon, capers and pickled onions, and refrigerate it, then pour on the dressing just before serving. 

Provide toasted baguette slices and bowls of additional capers, pickles and dressing, so guests can customise their carpaccio. And open the bubbly!

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If you haven’t visited our site in a while, I sh If you haven’t visited our site in a while, I shared a collection of recipes for homemade edible Christmas gifts — for condiments, hot sauces, chilli oils, a whole array of pickles, spice blends, chilli salt, furakake seasoning, and spicy snacks, such as our Cambodian and Vietnamese roasted peanuts. 

I love giving homemade edibles as gifts as much as I love receiving them. Who wouldn’t appreciate jars filled with their favourite chilli oils, hot sauces, piquant pickles, and spicy peanuts that loved-ones have taken the time to make? 

Aside from the gesture and affordability of gifting homemade edibles, you’re minimising waste. You can use recycled jars or if buying new mason jars or clip-top Kilner jars, you know they’ll get repurposed.

No need for wrapping, just attach some Christmas baubles or tinsel to the lid. I used squares of Cambodian kramas (cotton scarves), which can be repurposed as napkins or drink coasters, and tied a ribbon or two around the lids, and attached last year’s Christmas tree decorations to some.

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This crab omelette is a decadent eggs dish that’ This crab omelette is a decadent eggs dish that’s perfect if you’re just back from the fish markets armed with luxurious fresh crab meat. It’s a little sweet, a little spicy, and very, very moreish.

Our crab omelette recipe was one of our 22 most popular egg recipes of 2022 on our website Grantourismo and it’s no surprise. It’s appeared more times than any other egg recipes on our annual round-ups of most popular recipes since Terence launched Weekend Eggs when we launched Grantourismo in 2010.

If you’re an eggs lover, do check out the recipe collection. It includes egg recipes from right around the world, from recipes for classic kopitiam eggs from Singapore and Malaysia and egg curries from India and Myanmar to all kinds of egg recipes from Thailand, Japan, Korea, China, Mexico, USA, Australia, UK, and Ireland.

And do browse our Weekend Eggs archives for further eggspiration (sorry). We have hundreds of egg recipes from the 13 year-old series of recipes for quintessential egg dishes from around the world, which we started on our 2010 year-long global grand tour focused on slow, local and experiential travel. 

We’re hoping 2023 will be the year we can finally publish the Weekend Eggs cookbook we’ve talked about for years based on that series. After we can find a publisher for the Cambodia cookbook of course... :( 

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I’m late to share this, but a few days ago Angko I’m late to share this, but a few days ago Angkor Archaeological Park, home to stupendous Angkor Wat, pictured, celebrated 30 years of its UNESCO World Heritage listing. 

That’s as good an excuse as any to put this magnificent, sprawling archaeological site on your travel list this year.

While riverside Siem Reap, your base for exploring Angkor is bustling once more, there are still nowhere near the visitors of the last busy high season months of December-January 2018-2019 when there were 290,000 visitors. 

Last month there were just 55,000 visitors and December feels a little quieter. A tour guide friend said there were about 150 people at Angkor Wat for sunrise a few days ago.

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Our soy ginger chicken recipe will make you sticky Our soy ginger chicken recipe will make you sticky, flavourful and succulent chicken thighs that are fantastic with steamed rice, Chinese greens or a salad, such as a Southeast Asian slaw. 

The chicken can be marinated for up to 24 hours before cooking, which ensures it’s packed with flavour, then it can be cooked on a barbecue or in a pan.

Terence’s soy ginger chicken recipe is one of our favourite recipes for a quick and easy meal. I love the sound of the sizzling thighs in the pan, and the warming aromas wafting through the apartment. 

It’s amazing how such flavourful juicy chicken thighs come from such a quick and easy recipe.

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Who can guess the ingredients and what we’re mak Who can guess the ingredients and what we’re making with my market haul from Psar Samaki in Siem Reap — all for a whopping 10,000 riel (US$2.50)?! 

Birds-eye chillies thrown in for free! They were on my list but the seller I spent most at (5,000 riel!) scooped up a handful and slipped them into my bag. She was my last stop and knew what I was making.

My Khmer is poor, even after all our years in Cambodia, as I don’t learn languages with the ease I did in my 20s, plus I’m mentally exhausted after researching and writing all day. I have a better vocabulary of Old and Middle Khmer than modern Khmer from studying the ancient inscriptions for the Cambodian culinary history component of our cookbook I’m writing.

So when one seller totalled my purchases I thought she said 5,000 riel but she handed back 4,500 riel! The sum total of two huge bunches of herbs and kaffir lime leaves was 500 riel.

Tip: if visiting Siem Reap, use Khmer riel for local shopping. We’ve mainly used riel since the pandemic started— rarely use US$ now as market sellers quote prices in riels, as do local shops and bakeries, and I tip tuk tuk drivers in riels. I find prices quoted in riels are lower.

Psar Samaki is cheaper than Psar Leu, which is cheaper than Psar Chas, as it’s a wholesale market, which means the produce is fresher. I see veggies arriving, piled high in the back of vehicles, with dirt still on them — as I did on this trip. 

The scent of a mountain of incredibly aromatic pineapples offloaded from the back of a dusty ute was so heady they smelt like they’d just been cut. More exotic European style veggies arrive by big trucks in boxes labelled in Vietnamese (from Dalat) and Mandarin (from China), such as beautiful snow-white cauliflower I spotted.

Note: the freshest produce is sold on the dirt road at the back of the market.

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My Vietnamese-ish meatballs and rice noodles recip My Vietnamese-ish meatballs and rice noodles recipe makes tender meatballs doused in a delightfully tangy-sweet sauce, sprinkled with crispy fried shallots, with carrot-daikon, crunchy cucumber and fragrant herbs. 

The dish is inspired by bún chả, a Hanoi specialty, but it’s not bún chả. No matter what Google or food bloggers tell you. Names are important, especially when cooking and writing about cuisines not our own.

This is an authentic bún chả recipe:  https://grantourismotravels.com/vietnamese-bun-cha-recipe/ You’ll need to get the outdoor BBQ/grill going to do proper smoky bún chả meat patties (not meatballs).

My meatball noodle bowl is perhaps more closely related to dishes such as a Central Vietnam cousin bún thịt nướng (pork skewers on rice noodles in a bowl) and a Southern relation bún bò Nam Bộ (beef atop rice noodles, sprinkled with fried shallots (Nam Bộ=Southern Vietnam) though neither include meatballs. 

Xíu mại= meatballs although they’re different in flavour to mine, which taste more like bún chả patties. Xíu mại remind me of Southern Italian meatballs in tomato sauce.

In Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, home to millions of Khmer, there’s bánh tằm xíu mại. Bánh tằm=silk worm noodles. They’re topped with meatballs, cucumber, daikon, carrot, fresh herbs, crispy fried onions. Difference: cold noodles doused in a sauce of coconut cream and fish sauce. 

Remove the meatballs, add chopped fried spring rolls and it’s Cambodia’s banh sung, which is a rice noodle salad similar to Vietnam’s bún chả giò :) 

Recipe here: (link in bio) https://grantourismotravels.com/vietnamese-meatballs-and-rice-noodles-recipe/

For more on these culinary connections you’ll have to wait for our Cambodian cookbook and culinary history. In a hurry to know? Come support the project on Patreon. (link in bio)

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It is pure coincidence that Pepper’s eye colour It is pure coincidence that Pepper’s eye colour matches the furnishings of our rented apartment. So, no, I did not colour-coordinate the interiors to match our cat’s eyes. 

I keep getting DMs from pet clothing brands wanting to “partner” with Pepper and send her free cat clothes and cat accessories. Although she did wear a kerchief for a few years in her more adventurous fashion-forward teenage years, I cannot see this cat in clothes now, can you? 

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