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Potato salad with mayonnaise and cream

Potato salad with mayonnaise and cream

Appetizers

A layered Romanian salad: grated raw apple, pickles, egg, and cheese, alternated with a homemade mayonnaise made with sour cream.

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Recipe from Strainu, Kihoiu, WikiUser70176 and 3 other contributors, adapted by Recette de cuisine · · updated on

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This salad is a delight for the taste buds, combining the sweetness of grated apples with the rich flavour of mayonnaise and sour cream. It’s perfect for summer appetizers or as a side dish with a meat dish.

Ingredients and directions

  • Prep time20 min
  • Cook time—
  • Resting2 hr
  • Total2 hr 20 min
  • DifficultyEasy
  • CostBudget
  • Cooking methodpreparation
  • Estimated cost$4.58 $1.15 / serving Estimated price; varies by store. Converted from euros at the ECB rate of October 15, 2026.
  • Vegetarian
  • Gluten-free

Ingredients

4 people
  • $2.04
  • $0.80
  • $0.64
  • $0.80
  • $0.16
  • $0.03
  • $0.11

Prices from US supermarkets for 5 of 7 ingredients; Belgian prices for the rest.

Directions

  1. Cook the apples in their skins, let them cool, peel them, and grate them coarsely.
  2. Dice the pickles, grate the cheese, and dice the hard-boiled eggs. ≈ 8 min
  3. Make a mayonnaise using a raw egg yolk, a hard-boiled egg yolk, oil, salt, and a squeeze of lemon. ≈ 3 min
  4. Mix it with an equal amount of sour cream. ≈ 4 min
  5. In a hollow dish, alternate layers of apple, pickle, egg, and cheese, season lightly with pepper, and top with sauce. Finish with the sauce. ≈ 2 min
  6. Garnish with herbs and refrigerate for at least two hours.

The bill

Potato salad with mayonnaise and cream

  • 6 garden apples$2.04
  • 2 eggs (1 raw and 1 hard-boiled, for the mayonnaise)$0.80
  • pickled gherkins$0.64
  • 2 hard-boiled eggs (optional)$0.80
  • oil$0.16
  • salt and pepper$0.03
  • Lemon juice$0.11

Total$4.58

that's $1.15 per person

Estimated price; varies by store.

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Before you start

Ingredients

  • 6 garden apples
  • 2 eggs (1 raw and 1 hard-boiled, for the mayonnaise)
  • 200 g sour cream (or crème fraîche)
  • 250 g of cottage cheese or farmer’s cheese
  • pickled gherkins
  • 2 hard-boiled eggs (optional)
  • oil
  • salt and pepper
  • Lemon juice
  • Fresh herbs for decoration

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