Estonian Salad
In Estonia pretty much every gathering would have this salad on the table Christmas, New Years, mid-summer day, birthdays, etc. The salad is often served with blood sausage or meat.
Serves 6-8
Ingredients
- 5-7 medium potatoes, boiled with skin on
- 2-3 eggs, hard-boiled
- 1 fresh cucumber
- 4-5 medium pickles
- 1 onion
- 250g smoked pork sausage
- 1 apple
- 1 tin/can peas and carrots, keep the water
- 250g mayonnaise
- 250g creme fraiche
- 1 tsp English mustard
- Pinch salt
- Pinch pepper
- Small handful dill, chopped
Method
- Boil the unpeeled potatoes until tender, let them cool.
- Peel the potatoes and cut them into small cubes.
- Boil the eggs and cut them into small cubes.
- Finely dice the onion.
- Cut all the other ingredients into the small cubes.
- Combine all chopped ingredients and set aside.
- Mix the mayonnaise, water from tin/can, creme fraiche, mustard, salt, pepper and dill in a bowl.
- Add the mayonnaise mixture to the salad ingredients.
- Let the salad set for 2-4 hours before serving.
- I often find the salad to be the best the following morning.
