An easy and tasty salad, simple to prepare, delicious both cold and warm, nutritious and flavorful. Serve it as a main course, perhaps with grilled vegetables, or as a simple appetizer, it’s scented with lemon zest. Let’s get to work and prepare the potato salad with mackerel and onion together.
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- Difficulty: Very Easy
- Cost: Cheap
- Preparation time: 10 Minutes
- Portions: 4
- Cooking methods: Steam
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: All Seasons
Ingredients for preparing the potato salad with mackerel and onion
- 14 oz potatoes
- 1 Tropea onion
- 3.4 oz vinegar
- to taste salt
- 1 tbsp chopped parsley
- 5 oz mackerel in brine (drained)
- to taste extra virgin olive oil
- 2.8 oz Taggiasca olives
- Half lemon zest (grated)
Tools
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- Pressure Cookers
- Steamer Baskets
Steps for preparing the potato salad with mackerel and onion
First, peel the potatoes and cut them into chunks. Boil or steam them after lightly salting them. Once cooked, let them cool slightly. Slice one or two onions. Cover them with vinegar and salt. Mix and let rest for at least 30 minutes.
Place the potatoes on a plate. Drain and rinse the onion and add it to the potatoes. Finely chop the parsley. Enrich the potato salad with parsley.
Finish by adding Taggiasca olives, mackerel, salt, pepper, and a drizzle of oil. Scent with grated lemon zest and serve.
Storage
Store the potato salad in the fridge for one day.
FAQ (Questions and Answers)
If you don’t like mackerel
You can replace it with tuna.
What can I use instead of onion?
You can chop a clove of garlic with the parsley.