Salade Cauchoise
Salade Cauchoise is a delicious potato salad from Normandy with ham and celery. This is a basic version, and you can easily adapt it with your own variations.
Recipe: Salade Cauchoise
Serves: 4
Preparation time: 30 min
Ingredients:
- 750 g small potatoes or baby potatoes
- 3 celery stalks
- 150 g thick slice of cooked ham
- 100 g cooking cream
- 2 tbsp Normandy apple cider vinegar
- 1 tbsp chervil
- Salt and pepper
How to make Salade Cauchoise?
Method:
- Boil the potatoes in salted water for 15 to 20 minutes until tender. Rinse under cold water.
- If using baby potatoes with soft skin, you can leave them unpeeled. Otherwise, peel them and slice into thin rounds.
- Wash and peel the celery. Remove and set aside the leaves. Slice the stalks into thin crescent shapes and place them in a bowl with the potatoes.
- Dice the ham and add to the bowl.
- In a small bowl, whisk together the cooking cream and apple vinegar. Pour over the salad and toss gently. Season with salt and pepper.
- Finely chop the chervil. Divide the salad onto plates and garnish with celery leaves and chervil.
