Main Dish Potato Salad
- 1 pound tiny new potatoes
- 8 ounces green beans
- 2 ears corn
- 8 ounces whole red, yellow or orange peppers, or 5 ounces chopped ready-cut peppers (1 1/4 peppers)
- 3 ounces whole red onion or 2 ounces chopped ready-cut onion ( 1/3 cup)
- 23 cup plain nonfat yogurt
- 1/4 cup reduced-fat mayonnaise
- 3 tablespoons white-wine vinegar
- 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
- 18 teaspoon salt
- Freshly ground black pepper to taste
- Scrub potatoes, but do not peel.
- Cover with water, and boil in a covered pot 10 to 17 minutes, depending on their size.
- If you cannot find tiny new potatoes, use large ones and cut them up.
- Wash and trim the green beans, and steam for 5 to 7 minutes, until they are tender but still firm.
- Shuck corn, and scrape off kernels.
- Wash, trim and seed the whole peppers, and chop finely.
- Finely chop whole onion.
- In a serving bowl, combine the yogurt, mayonnaise, vinegar, mustard, salt and pepper.
- Drain the green beans, reserving the cooking water, and run the beans under cold water.
- Cook the corn 1 or 2 minutes in the water the beans were steamed over.
- Cut the beans into 1-inch pieces, and add to the dressing with the peppers and onions.
- Drain the corn, and stir into dressing.
- When the potatoes are cooked, drain, run under cold water and slice thinly; stir into the salad.
potatoes, green beans, corn, red, red onion, nonfat yogurt, mayonnaise, whitewine vinegar, mustard, salt, freshly ground black pepper
Taken from cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/8945 (may not work)