A Healthy Alternative to a regular Potato Salad Recipe
Not Your Usual Potato Salad
We all love a braai and South Africans enjoy having a potato salad as a typical braai accompaniment but it often doesn’t always help our weight loss plans going into summer.
This healthy alternative to the regular potato salad will reduce your calorie intake yet still makes a delicious side dish to serve alongside your chops at your next braai!
Ingredients
300g PnP Broccoli
1 kg PnP Baby Potato
6 tbsp PnP Reduced Oil Mayonaise
2 Lemons (squeezed and zested)
100g Toasted Sunflower Seeds
20g Fresh Coriander
Olive Oil for frying and roasting
4 tsp Smoked Paprika
2 tsp Sumac
Ground Black Pepper
Salt
How to Prepare a Healthy Potato Salad
Peel the potatoes and cut in four parts.
Sprinkle 4 tsp of smoked paprika. and drizzle some olive oil over.
Air fry the potatoes for 20-30 minutes on 200 degrees.
If you don’t have an air fryer, you an roast the potatoes in the oven for 30-40 minutes at 200 degrees.
Once the potatoes are roasted, set aside to cool down.
Meanwhile, prepare the rest of your salad:
Toast the sunflowers in a pan (without oil).
Pan fry the broccoli with a little olive oil until charred but still crispy.
Tip to reduce on the dishes: You can use the same pan used for toasting the sunflower seeds.
As with the potatoes, once the broccoli is pan fried to perfection, set aside to cool down.
Mix six tablespoons of PnP reduced oil mayonnaise with the juice from two lemons and zest and sumac.
Tip to reduce on the dishes: You can use the same bowl used when covering the potatoes in olive oi; and smoked paprikal.
Once the potatoes and broccoli have cooled down, add them to your salad bowl.
Drizzle the mayo, sumac and lemon dressing over the salad.
Top the salad with sunflower seeds and add the fresh coriander
Generously season with ground pepper and some salt and serve immediately.
Enjoy! Please tag me on Instagram if you’ve made this recipe, I’d love to see it!
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About Shawn Godfrey
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Shawn Godfrey is an entrepreneur based in Cape Town, South Africa. After the Covid-19 lockdown saw his business in financial distress, cooking was the creative outlet that helped to keep him sane. To keep track of his recipes, and encourage friends and families to join him, he starts his instagram account The Roasted Dad.
Fast-forward to late 2021 - on a whim Shawn (encouraged by his wife Lianne) enters MasterChef South Africa. It is a crazy time of life: running a 200 people business and struggling to keep it profitable, two small children with a third on the way, and about to move into a new house. But when Shawn gets selected to be one of the 20 contestants participating in the fourth season of MasterChef South Africa, he decides to go all in. Leaving his 7-month-pregnant wife to look after their then three and one-year-old children, he battles it out and comes back home five weeks later with the trophy and a million rand prize money in his pocket.
It all started with an Instagram account, but The Roasted Dad is so much more now. Shawn has stayed his entrepreneurial self and whilst he hosts Private Dinner Parties and Cook-with-Me Demos, does Restaurant Take-Overs, he still runs the lighting company and several other businesses.
On his blog, Shawn shares Restaurant Reviews and Accommodation Reviews, and gives an insight into the wild and wonderful life he leads together with his wife Lianne, and their three children Aiden (6), Olivia (4) and Harvey (2).
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