Spanish Potato Salad (Ensaladilla Rusa)- A Spanish Favorite
Ensaladilla Rusa is a popular Spanish potato salad made with potatoes, carrots, boiled eggs, cooked peas, tuna, and mayonnaise. Delicious!
Servings: 6
Ingredients
- 1 pound red waxy potatoes boiled
- ½ pound peeled medium carrots
- 2 hard boiled eggs
- 1 roasted pepper (from the jar is fine)
- 1 cup cooked peas
- 10 small pitted green olives preferably Spanish
- 1 (5oz) can tuna
- 1 ½ cup mayonnaise
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Wash and scrub the potatoes. Place them in a large pot filled with water.
- Use a smaller pot for cooking the peeled carrots. In the last 5 minutes, add the frozen peas.
- Add a teaspoon of salt to each pot, bring the water to a boil and cook the vegetables until soft but not mushy.
- Separately, cook the eggs for about 7 minutes, remove from the stove and cool them down in cold water. Remove shells and set them aside. Save an egg yolk for decoration.
- Remove the potatoes, carrots, and peas from the heat and let them cool.
- Peel the potatoes.
- Dice potatoes, carrots, eggs, and roasted pepper.
- Place them in a salad bowl.
- Add the cooked peas.
- Drain the can of tuna and add the fish to the vegetables.
- Chop the olives and add them to the salad.
- Add the mayo and mix well.
- Add salt and pepper to your taste.
- Decorate with shredded egg yolk.
- Refrigerate the salad for a while until cool enough, then serve.
