Potato Salad with Dill-Chive Vinaigrette

Thyme in the Kitchen:
Cooking with Fresh Herbs
Yvonne Tremblay
How to grow, harvest and store culinary herbs, and cooking with herbs all in one book!! Expand your culinary horizons with this great book. To try: Black Bean and Corn Salsa (page 146) and Potato Salad with Dill-Chive Vinaigrette (page 96). Softcover. $24.95.

Contrive your own delicious version to enjoy for summer barbecues and picnics. Add any of the following: sliced avocados, chopped sun-dried tomatoes, wedges of hard-cooked eggs, cooked peas, sweet red or yellow peppers (roasted, if desired), sliced celery or radishes, crisply cooked asparagus tips.

Salad

3 lb medium or red-skinned potatoes 1.5 kg
1/3 cup diced white or red onion (or sliced green onions) 75 mL
1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley 60 mL
1/2 to 3/4 cup Dill-Chive Vinaigrette (recipe follows) 125 to 175 mL
Salt and pepper to taste

1. Halve or quarter potatoes. In a large saucepan of boiling salted water, cook potatoes for 8 to 10 minutes or until tender. Drain; let cool.

2. In a large bowl, mix together potatoes, onion and parsley. Gently stir in enough dressing to coat potatoes. Add salt and pepper to taste.

Makes 8 servings.

Dill-Chive Vinaigrette

This is a very versatile dressing. Pour it over tender-crisp cooked green beans, peas or cauliflower. Serve over a salad of asparagus, new potatoes, hard-cooked eggs and tomato wedges.

1 tbsp white wine vinegar 15 mL
1 tbsp lemon juice 15 mL
1 tbsp Dijon mustard 15 mL
1/2 tsp granulated sugar 2 mL
1 cup oil 250 mL
1/3 cup chopped fresh dill 75 mL
1/4 cup chopped fresh chives 60 mL
Salt and pepper, to taste

1. In a small bowl, whisk together vinegar, lemon juice, mustard and sugar.

2. Gradually whisk in oil. Stir in dill and chives. Season with salt and pepper. Refrigerate for up to 1 week. Shake or stir before using.

Makes 1 1/4 cups (300 mL).

Tip: To prepare dressing in food processor, combine all ingredients except oil; pulse to mix. With machine running slowly, drizzle in oil; process until well combined and slightly thickened.

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