Sweet Potato Salad

Sweet Potato Salad

You may remember that I published a Japanese potato salad recipe a little while ago. Here's a variation on the theme using sweet potato instead of the humble generic one. I like the sweet potatoes you can find in the UK - unlike the sweet potatoes you find in Japan, the ones I buy in the UK have a softer flesh.

Along with the sweet potato, I used half a pepper, some cucumber, some peas and some raisins. The aim here is to produce a sweeter flavour to accentuate the sweet potato. The cucumber has the seeds removed and then it's slightly salted and given a good squeeze before adding it to the salad - that way, your salad doesn't become watery. When the sweet potato is cooked, just mash it enough to break it into fragments - you don't want a perfect puree smooth mash for this recipe. I use Japanese Kewpie brand mayonnaise for this recipe but if you can't get hold of it, you could just use a low fat mayonnaise instead.

I like to think of this as a quintessential summer salad - whenever I make a bowl of this, it also disappears in minutes so I think it'll get the thumbs up in your household as well!

Interested? You can find the Youtube tutorial by clicking Sweet Potato salad and the written recipe is as below.

Happy cooking! Kurumi XXXX.

As an alternative, you could check out my Japanese Potato salad recipe here.

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Ingredients: 2 servings

370g sweet potato

80g cucumber

50g yellow pepper

40g frozen peas

40g raisins

5 tbsp kewpie mayonnaise*

a little pepper

1/2 tsp salt

some chopped chives for topping (optional)

*if you can't find kewpie mayonnaise, you can substitute another brand

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how to:

peel and cut the sweet potato into bite sized pieces

quarter the cucumber lengthways, remove the seeds (this will prevent the salad from becoming watery) & slice thinly, then sprinkle 1/2 tsp of the salt over the cucumber. mix and set aside for 10 mins

cut and finely slice the pepper

put 3-4 cm of water in a pan, immerse the sweet potatoes, boil for 8-10 mins or until softened, then drain

in a smaller pan, bring 2-3 cm of water to the boil, then add & boil the peas for 3 mins

mash the sweet potato lightly in a bowl (you don’t want a puree, little bits and pieces of potato left in the mash is fine)

add the peas, pepper & raisins

using your hand, squeeze any excess water from the cucumber and add to the bowl

add the pepper & mayonnaise and mix together well

sprinkle with the chopped chives (optional)

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Sweet Potato Salad