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 here.
Happy cooking! Kurumi XXXX.
As an alternative, you could check out my Japanese Potato salad recipe here.
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