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Northern German Potato Salad
Ingredients (estimates)
600 gr (1 soup bowl) waxy potatoes (Charlotte, Maris Peer, and Jersey Royals, New Potatoes)
250 ml Potato salad sauce (Kuehne) or French Mayonnaise or salad cream or mayonnaise + 1 tbsp mustard
about 10cm German pork sausage (Fleischwurst) or about 4 Frankfurter sausages
1 medium sized onion (~170gr)
2-3 large pickled gherkins
4-6 tbsp pickled gherkins brine
Salt
Pepper
mixed herbs (parsley, chives)
Instructions
1. Boil the potatoes in their skin for 20-30mins. Do NOT cool them with cold water, then peel and cut into about 0.5cm thick slices.
2. Dice the onion, pickled gherkins and sausage
3. Mix the sauce with the onion, pickled gherkins, sausage, herbs, salt and pepper to taste. Add some pickled gherkins brine if desired.
4. Pour mix over potatoes and stir to desired potato/sauce ratio. Add more sausage/gherkins/herbs if desired.