A Kiss For Christmas! Mistletoe Salad
- 500 grams Potatoes
- 50 grams Ham
- 1 Cucumber
- 3 Eggs
- 60 to 70 grams Cream cheese
- 1 Mayonnaise, salt, vinegar
- 1 dash Salad leaves (arugula, purple leaf lettuce, baby spinach leaves etc.)
- 2 large Cashew nuts
- 1 dash Dried cranberries
- 2 Cherry tomatoes
- Make the potato salad: Peel the potatoes, cut into 2-3 pieces each and boil.
- Cut the ham into strips.
- Peel the cucumber in a stripe pattern, cut into 2 mm wide julienne, sprinkle with salt and leave for a while.
- Carefully put the eggs into boiling water, take out after 5 minutes and put into cold water, and peel.
- Cut the cream cheese into 1.5 cm dice.
- Poke a chopstick through a piece of potato and drain off the cooking water if it goes through easily.
- Return the potatoes to the pan over low heat and shake the potatoes around until they are floury.
- Put half the cream cheese in a bowl with the hot potatoes, ham, well squeezed out cucumber and quartered boiled eggs.
- Add 2 pinches of salt and a swirl of mayonnaise, and mix everything together.
- Drizzle in 1 tablespoon of vinegar, and mix so as to not crush the potatoes too much.
- Taste and adjust the seasoning with salt and vinegar.
- When the mixture has cooled down, chill in the refrigerator.
- Refrigerate the rest of the cream cheese too.
- While the salad is chilling, make the decorative elements ready.
- Toast the cashew nuts for a few minutes in a toaster oven.
- It smells so good!
- (It burns easily to keep an eye on it.)
- You can dry roast them in a frying pan too.
- Crisp up the salad leaves by putting them in a bowl of ice water.
- When the potato salad is cold, add the rest of the cream cheese and mix in.
- Arrange the wreath: Do this right before serving.
- Mound the potato salad in a wreath shape on a plate.
- Dry the salad leaves well, and arrange on the wreath as if you are sticking them on.
- Stick in the cashew nuts randomly, and scatter with plenty of dried cranberries.
- Fill any gaps with cherry tomatoes.
- Done!
- Sprinkle on some dressing to taste when serving.
ham, cucumber, eggs, cream cheese, mayonnaise, salad leaves, nuts, cranberries, tomatoes
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/167737-a-kiss-for-christmas-mistletoe-salad (may not work)