The recipe includes Tzatziki sauce, fresh herbs, pancetta, hard-boiled eggs, and briny olives, among other things.
If you are tired of mayonnaise-laden potato salad recipes, try this delicious, Mediterranean-inspired version.
The recipe includes Tzatziki sauce, fresh herbs, pancetta, hard-boiled eggs, and briny olives, among other things.
Ingredients
- 2 Tbsp olive oil
- 1 medium-sized yellow onion, small dice
- 1 small cucumber, peeled, cut in half, seeds removed, flesh cut small dice.
- 1 tsp kosher salt
- 1.5 cups full-fat Greek yogurt
- ½ clove of garlic, fined mined
- 1 lemon Juice
- ¼ cup fresh mint, finely chopped
- ½ cup fresh parsley, finely chopped
- ¼ tsp ground cayenne pepper
- 32oz baby Yukon Gold potatoes, or any waxy high-moisture potato like red bliss
- 8 eggs, hardboiled, peeled, and cut into quarters
- 4oz cooked pancetta, small dice
- 1 cup pitted green olives, roughly chopped
- Salt & freshly-ground black pepper, to taste.
- A drizzle of extra virgin olive oil, as garnish
- ¼ cup fresh chives, finely sliced, as garnish
Instructions
- Cook a diced onion in olive oil over medium heat until the onion is fully cooked and completely translucent and beginning to take on color.
- Remove onions from pan and allow them to cool to room temperature.
- Salt the diced cucumber and allow to sit for 10 minutes.
- Drain excess water from salted cucumber, squeezing the cucumber out in your hands over a bowl to remove as much liquid as possible.
- Combine the 1.5 cups Greek yogurt with the drained salted cucumber and the cooked onion from earlier.
- Add the garlic, lemon juice, mint, parsley, and cayenne pepper and stir to combine well. This mixture will serve as the sauce base for your potato salad.
- Boil baby Yukon Gold or Red Bliss potatoes in salty water until they are completely tender.
- Remove potatoes from hot water and cut into bite-sized chunks.
- Mix hot boiled potatoes with the sauce and stir to combine.
- Allow the potatoes to cool for roughly 15 minutes.
- Combine the sauced potatoes with the hardboiled eggs, cooked pancetta, and pitted green olives.
- Season with salt & freshly-ground black pepper.
- Serve with a drizzle of olive oil and a heavy sprinkling of chives on top.
Notes
This can be a large side dish for a party or even an entrée for lunch. You can easily prepare this a day in advance of serving it.