Softly Mashed Egg and Potato Salad with Yoghurt and Chives
Potatoes boiled to collapsing and crushed with yoghurt, olive oil and lemon, with finely chopped soft-boiled egg folded through and the whole thing served warm.
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Prep 12 minCook 25 minServes 2
Ingredients
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560 g potato, peeled and cut into even chunks
4 eggs (204 g)
170 g Greek-style yoghurt
14 g olive oil
55 g skim milk powder
80 ml reduced-fat milk (82 g)
12 ml lemon juice (12 g)
10 g chives, finely snipped
0.4 g iodised table salt
black pepper, to taste
Method
Put the potato in cold salted water, bring to the boil and cook 20-25 minutes. Take it past the point where a knife slides in easily and on to where a chunk breaks apart as you lift it out. A waxy, sliceable potato is the wrong result here.
Cook the four eggs in a second pan for 9 minutes from the moment the water comes back to a simmer, then cool them under the cold tap.
Whisk the milk powder into the cold milk and leave it to hydrate while the potato finishes.
Drain the potato well and leave it in the hot pan a minute so the surface steam dries off. Wet potato makes a slack, watery mash however hard you beat it.
Crush the potato with a fork rather than a whisk, then work in the fortified milk, the yoghurt, the olive oil, the lemon juice, the salt and some pepper. Aim for a soft, loose mash that slumps rather than a stiff one that holds a peak.
Peel the eggs, chop them to about the size of a lentil and fold them through with most of the chives. Serve warm with the rest scattered over; chilling firms the potato and makes the whole plate harder work.
Make the full amount even if you only want half of it now. A small bowl of this loosened with a spoon of milk and warmed through is a better four o'clock than a biscuit, and it needs no cooking.
Serve
A soft yolk is not fully cooked. Guidance is to avoid undercooked egg if you are pregnant, over 70, under 2, or your immune system is low or suppressed — which includes many people on immune-modifying medicines. Cook the yolk through instead: the dish still works.
Safety and storage
Keeps
3 days refrigerated below 5°C
Reheat to
steaming hot, at least 60°C
Cool and cover within two hours of cooking; split large amounts into shallow containers so they chill quickly. Reheat until steaming hot, at least 60°C.
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Softly Mashed Egg and Potato Salad with Yoghurt and Chives
Serves 2 · Prep 12 min · Cook 25 min
Potatoes boiled to collapsing and crushed with yoghurt, olive oil and lemon, with finely chopped soft-boiled egg folded through and the whole thing served warm.
Ingredients
560 g potato, peeled and cut into even chunks
4 eggs (204 g)
170 g Greek-style yoghurt
14 g olive oil
55 g skim milk powder
80 ml reduced-fat milk (82 g)
12 ml lemon juice (12 g)
10 g chives, finely snipped
0.4 g iodised table salt
black pepper, to taste
Approximate per serving
2452 kJ / 586 kcal · protein 33.4 g · carbohydrate 54.8 g · fibre 3.5 g · fat 24.7 g · sodium 425.7 mg
Method
Put the potato in cold salted water, bring to the boil and cook 20-25 minutes. Take it past the point where a knife slides in easily and on to where a chunk breaks apart as you lift it out. A waxy, sliceable potato is the wrong result here.
Cook the four eggs in a second pan for 9 minutes from the moment the water comes back to a simmer, then cool them under the cold tap.
Whisk the milk powder into the cold milk and leave it to hydrate while the potato finishes.
Drain the potato well and leave it in the hot pan a minute so the surface steam dries off. Wet potato makes a slack, watery mash however hard you beat it.
Crush the potato with a fork rather than a whisk, then work in the fortified milk, the yoghurt, the olive oil, the lemon juice, the salt and some pepper. Aim for a soft, loose mash that slumps rather than a stiff one that holds a peak.
Peel the eggs, chop them to about the size of a lentil and fold them through with most of the chives. Serve warm with the rest scattered over; chilling firms the potato and makes the whole plate harder work.
Make the full amount even if you only want half of it now. A small bowl of this loosened with a spoon of milk and warmed through is a better four o'clock than a biscuit, and it needs no cooking.
Serve
A soft yolk is not fully cooked. Guidance is to avoid undercooked egg if you are pregnant, over 70, under 2, or your immune system is low or suppressed — which includes many people on immune-modifying medicines. Cook the yolk through instead: the dish still works.
Safety and storage
Keeps
3 days refrigerated below 5°C
Reheat to
steaming hot, at least 60°C
Cool and cover within two hours of cooking; split large amounts into shallow containers so they chill quickly. Reheat until steaming hot, at least 60°C.
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