Austrian Style Potato Salad Cooks Illustrated Food

AUSTRIAN-STYLE POTATO SALAD (COOK'S ILLUSTRATED)

Steps:

• Bring potatoes, broth, water, 1 teaspoon salt, sugar, and 1 tablespoon vinegar to boil in 12-inch heavy-bottomed skillet over high heat. Reduce heat to medium-low, cover, and cook until potatoes offer no resistance when pierced with paring knife, 15 to 17 minutes. Remove cover, increase heat to high (so cooking liquid will reduce), and cook 2 minutes.
• Drain potatoes in colander set over large bowl, reserving cooking liquid. Set drained potatoes aside. Pour off and discard all but ½ cup cooking liquid (if ½ cup liquid does not remain, add water to make ½ cup). Whisk remaining tablespoon vinegar, mustard, and oil into cooking liquid.
• 3. Add ½ cup cooked potatoes to bowl with cooking liquid mixture and mash with potato masher or fork until thick sauce forms (mixture will be slightly chunky). Add remaining potatoes, onion, cornichons, and chives, folding gently with rubber spatula to combine. Season to taste with salt and black pepper. Serve warm or at room temperature.

AUSTRIAN-STYLE WARM POTATO SALAD

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, combine the potatoes, thyme sprigs, and 2 tablespoons of the salt. Add enough cold water to cover completely. Bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce the heat to maintain a simmer and cook until the potatoes are just tender enough to be pierced easily with a skewer or the tip of a sharp knife, about 10 minutes.
• Drain the potatoes. While they are still hot, peel them with a small, sharp knife, protecting your hand from the heat with a folded kitchen towel. As each potato is peeled, cut it crosswise into 1/4-inch slices, letting the slices fall into a mixing bowl.
• Add to the hot potato slices the onion, remaining salt, sugar, pepper, vinegar, and oil. Stir gently but thoroughly with a large spoon to combine the ingredients.
• Before serving, heat the broth in a large saute pan over medium-high heat. Add the potato salad and stir it gently just until the potatoes are thoroughly heated. Garnish with parsley or chives and serve immediately.

TAFELSPITZ (BOILED BEEF AUSTRIAN STYLE)

Steps:

• Put beef and bones into a soup pot and add water to cover.
• Add salt, peppercorns and cleaned vegetables.
• Bring to a boil, lower heat and simmer about 3 hours or until beef is tender, but not falling apart.
• Strain the bouillon and season to taste with salt, white pepper and nutmeg.
• Save and serve as first course.
• Slice beef and vegetables and serve with plain horseradish, apple-horseradish sauce or Chive Sauce.
• To make the Chive Sauce, Soak bread crumbs in cold water then squeeze dry.
• Combine bread crumbs and egg yolks in Cuisinart.
• Add olive oil a little at a time.
• Season with salt, pepper, sugar and vinegar.
• Add chives and mix well.

AUSTRIAN POTATO SALAD

Steps:

• Cook the sliced potatoes till just tender, drain and set aside.
• In a large bowl mix together all the other ingredients.
• Add salt to taste, dilute with a little water if the flavour is too strong. You can add more oil, vinegar to make more dressing if necessary.
• Mix in the potatoes, stir all together gently so as not to break up the potatoes.
• Invite me to dinner, it's that good.

ANDALUSIAN POTATO SALAD

Steps:

• Place the potatoes in a medium-size saucepan, add enough cold water to cover them by 2 inches, and bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Reduce the heat to medium and cook the potatoes, partially covered, until they are completely tender when pricked with a skewer, 30 to 35 minutes. Drain the potatoes. When just cool enough to handle, peel the potatoes and cut them into a very fine dice.
• Place the diced potatoes and the onion, Italian pepper, tomato, scallion, 1/3 cup of the olive oil, and 6 tablespoons of the vinegar in a bowl and stir to mix. Season with salt to taste. Toss everything together, crushing the potatoes slightly, so that they are half mashed. Let the salad stand for about 2 hours to absorb the dressing. Taste and add more vinegar as necessary.
• To serve, spread the potato salad on a serving plate, sprinkle with parsley on top, then drizzle the remaining oil over it.