Kumara Salad
Introduction
Very tasty salad that is a meal in itself. Good in summer or winter.
Ingredients
- 1 good sized kumara (sweet potato) - peeled and chopped into about 2 cm cubes
- 3 or 4 rashers of bacon cooked the way you like. Crispy is good!
- 1 orange - segmented (so segments are without their skin)
- about an inch of salami sausage chopped small
- 2 tbs currants
- some walnuts roughly chopped
- some parsley roughly chopped
- 4 tbs Best Foods mayonnaise (you can use more or less as you want)
- 2 tbs virgin olive oil
- salt and freshly ground black pepper
Directions
Steam the kumara for about 10-15 minutes until tender. While the kumara is cooking segment the orange and drop the segments into a salad bowl and squeeze what's left of the orange to extract any juice. Add the currants and leave them to soak.
Cook the bacon and chop the salami.
Blend the mayonnaise with the olive oil using a whisk.
When the kumara is cooked allow it to cool quickly and then while it is still just warm add it to the salad bowl with the salami and walnuts and salt and pepper and stir gently but thoroughly.
Add the mayonnaise and parsley and give a final gentle mix up. Sprinkle the bacon over the top. Serve with good bread and a green salad if you want.
Variations
Recipe doubles and triples well, but watch the mayo quantity to get what you want.
Source: adapted from Julie Biuso.