Grilled Vegetables
Grilled Potato Salad Recipe
Potato salads vary a lot in flavor and texture but this potato salad recipe is especially good. Potatoes and thinly sliced red onion are combined with oil, garlic and seasonings to give a wonderful grilled potatoes recipe. You can serve this grilled potato salad as a side dish or take it to a pot luck dinner.
For a slight variation, you might like to add a handful of grated cheddar cheese to this recipe and stir in it while the potato salad is still hot so it melts. New potatoes are the best to use in this recipe but you can use another kind of potato if they are not available.
Grilled Potato Salad with Red Onion
Ingredients -
⅓ cup chopped fresh parsley
½ red onion, sliced very thin
2 lbs new potatoes
2 finely chopped cloves garlic
1 tablespoon chopped oregano
⅓ cup extra virgin olive oil
½ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon black pepper
Cooking sprayd
Preparation:
Bring an inch of salted water to a boil in a 3 quart pan and add the new potatoes.
Cover the pan and bring it back to a boil.
Turn down the heat and cook the potatoes for 15 minutes.
Drain them and let them cool.
Cut them in half and coat them with cooking spray.
Preheat the grill to moderate. Grill the potatoes for about 7 minutes or until they are tender.
Let them cool, and then cut them into bite-sized pieces.
Mix the potatoes with the parsley, onion, garlic, oregano, olive oil, salt and pepper and serve hot or chilled as a side dish.
(Serves 6)
A Picture of a classic grilled potato salad recipe - Offer the family something completely different the next time you make potato salad try using the grill to see what a difference grilling makes with plain old potatoes.
Potato - po·ta·to
Pronounced: (pé tá tõ), n., pl. -toes.
Sometimes called Irish potato, as in white potato. also comes in red, purple and sweet potato verities, It is the edible tuber of Solanum tuberosum plant of the nightshade family and is cultivated in many places around the world in various forms including the continents of North and South America, Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa. Also a designation of the plant itself.