Korean
Gamja-salad (Korean Potato Salad)
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Gamja-salad (Korean Potato Salad) is Korean home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the condiment. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Boil the potatoes whole until tender, about 20 minutes, then drain and mash while still warm.
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Boil the eggs 9 minutes, cool, peel, and chop.
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Finely dice the carrot and cucumber, salt them lightly, and let sit 5 minutes, then squeeze out the water they release.
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Dice the apple and fold it into the mashed potato with the carrot, cucumber, chopped egg, mayonnaise, sugar, salt, and pepper.
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Chill at least 30 minutes before serving; a lunchbox and picnic staple.
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Serve it with
A Korean dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Gamja-salad (Korean Potato Salad), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The dish at the centre
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Something to sip
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What it is eaten with
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Gamja-salad (Korean Potato Salad) carries eggs. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | Yes | Baechu Kimchi (Napa Cabbage Kimchi) |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 260 kcal
- Protein
- 6 g
- Carbs
- 30 g
- Fat
- 13 g
- Fiber
- 2 g
- Sugar
- 3 g
- Sodium
- 310 mg
- Saturated fat
- 2 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Gamja-salad (Korean Potato Salad) takes about 35 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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