Mom’s Potato Watercress Salad

I used waaaay too much wasabi (thinking it was the same as horseradish) and I also subbed arugula for watercress since it’s not easy to find where I am and it did not do well left over, ended up feeding it to my pet pigs. They loved it! Next time I will stick to the real recipe hopefully with better luck

i first saw this recipe on the NYT cooking website, called “alice rose george’s potato watercress salad.” it is this recipe but doubled, the only change being it calls for fresh horseradish which i can’t easily get. it didn’t have any reviews, so i went looking and found this one. bingo! i have both wasabi powder & prepared horseradish at home, and chose to go with the horseradish.

we thought it was very good. served alongside marinated steak tips and a caesar salad. next time i would use much less olive oil – it dulled the horseradish taste too much and i ended up adding extra horseradish to the dressing at the end. (i had hoped making the dressing ahead of time would intensify the horseradish flavor but it didn’t really.) it definitely needs lots of salt and pepper! maybe next time i will add a squeeze of fresh lemon, or try it with the wasabi powder. only other thing is to add the dressing slowly – if i had used it all it would have been really swimming in it. i used 3/4 of it and saved the rest to reinvigorate the leftovers another day. 🙂

I’ve made this along with the pancetta wrapped shrimp several times and love this combo. I found that the potato salad could use a bit more flavor, so I used Greek full fat yogurt and boiled fingerling potatoes in vegetable stock. I then reduced the olive oil to just one tablespoon and added the boiled vegetable stock to the replace the 1/4 cup of olive oil.

Even with full fat greek yogurt, it’s still probably lower fat and in my opinion tastes alot better without being too overwhelming.

When I first tried this recipe I wasn’t familiar with a couple of the ingredients and was curious. Well, all I can say is YUM-O! This is our family favorite and church social favorite, as well. Thanks, Rachel and Mom!

The salad and the dressing by themselves are bland. The watercress is tangy. However, when they are combined the flavor is awesome. The yogurt takes away the tang of the green. Delicious.

If you’re looking for a new twist in potato salads, this is it! Just the right amount of kick (from the wasabi powder) and so delicious!

This recipe was great! It has a wonderful flavor that was very hot (horseradish) at first but became so tasty that I had to have seconds. In fact, I would have had thirds, but I was stuffed!