Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, japanese potato salad. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Japanese Potato Salad is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look fantastic. Japanese Potato Salad is something which I have loved my whole life.

The best recipe for Japanese potato salad comes from Shirley Karasawa of the now-defunct blog, Lovely Lanvin (lucky for us, she's still very active on Instagram). The fashion-loving Japanese-American home cook, who splits her time between Seattle and Tokyo, has incredible taste in all things, but especially in food. The classic Japanese potato salad is made of mashed potato (leaving some chunks behind), sliced cucumbers and carrots, eggs and sometimes hams.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook japanese potato salad using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Japanese Potato Salad:

1. Make ready 250 g Potato
2. Prepare 15 g Onion
3. Make ready 1/4 Carrot, thinly sliced and boil
4. Take 1/4 Cucumber, thinly sliced
5. Make ready 2 Slices Ham, cut into small square pieces
6. Take 50 g Mayonnaise
7. Make ready 1/2 tsp Sugar
8. Take 1/4 tsp Salt
9. Take 2 Dashes Black Pepper

Creamy and colorful, Japanese Potato Salad is a classic side in casual Japanese cooking used in bento boxes and garnishing dinner plates around the country. Recipe Pin It While Japan may be famous for sushi, home cooking draws from a broad palette of global flavors. Japanese Potato Salad is a staple in Japanese-household's home-cooking because it's so easy to make, and uses ingredients everyone usually has at home! It has vegetables, carbs, and protein so it could make a nice little meal on its own, but it is usually used as a side dish.

Instructions to make Japanese Potato Salad:

1. Boil potatoes with skin until cooked
2. Mix Mayo with sugar and black pepper and set aside
3. Peel hot potato using towel,break with spatula and add salt and onions while hot, mix well and let it cool
4. Then mix with cucumber, ham, carrot, mayo.
5. Chill in the fridge and enjoy :)

It also makes a great bento box filling! Japanese potato salad falls into the category of yōshoku: Japanized "Western" food. Just as we Americans "Americanize" Japanese food by adding such things as cream cheese and avocado to sushi, for example, Japanese chefs have taken certain European and American dishes and tweaked them to suit their own palates. Getting potato salad right is no picnic. Too often it lacks the acidity or piquancy needed to cut through the richness of the mayonnaise.

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