How to make Japanese style Potato Salad 〜ポテトサラダ〜 | easy Japanese home cooking recipe

[Applause] welcome to ta's Kitchen today I'm going to show you how to make Japanese style potato salad so this style of potato salad is really not like typical Japanese food it's definitely a Western influence food but it's also something you don't really see outside Japan it comes quite often with a side dish for like tonkatsu Coro or hug and also quite typical for bento box and this is also something that you can make a big batch and store in the fridge and save for the next couple days and today I'm making with bacon but you can also easily make this vegetarian just by taking out the bacon or also make it vegan if you use a vegan mayonnaise this is actually very very easy to make and it's just so delicious and just perfect to go with any dish so I really hope you give this a try yourself then let's let's get [Music] started here are the ingredients for Japanese style potato salad so here have regular potatoes so overall there are two types of potatoes potato that gets very soft when it's cooked and potato that stays the form for this recipe it's better to choose the one that get soft cucumber carrot an onion and and then for the meat I have some bacon you can also use some ham or any kind of meat or if you're vegetarian you can skip the meat then you can easily make a vegetarian variation as well just any regular frying oil for frying and I also have Cy mayonnaise it's definitely better to make it with Cy mayonnaise cuz has more Umami in it but if you can't get a hold of it then you can just use any regular mayonnaise and then for the seasoning salt and pepper then let's get into it there's the first thing let's cut up all the ingredients so I'm going to start with a cucumber cuz this is the only ingredient that you're going to eat raw I'm going to take the top and bottom off then just slice as you normally do if you can slice like this then you can of course use a slicer as you cut this make sure you have a so-called CS paw so that you're not going to cut the finger but instead you have your knuckle like this and then you're just going to slide the knuckle backwards like [Applause] this so just like that and then next I'm going to cut up the carrot this I'll probably just need half of this and then take the top off I'm going to first cut in half like this then I'm just going to cut in an a quarter like this then I'm going to cut up and slice this as well so just like that and also for the onion I probably just need half of this as well then I'm going to peel off the skin and then take the top and bottom off and then slice this as well then just like that and to prepare the potatoes I'm going to first peel off the skin you can leave your skin on but it'll just kind of bit get in the way of texture I personally like to peel the skin off but of course you can leave it on if you want to so then this is finished with peeling but you have some Dent Parts didn't get peeled and for that you want to use this heal of the knife just going to dig in like this and that's perfect and also another Merit of peeling off the skin is that you see kind of the damag parts like this and then these I'm going to kind of cut into bite-sized pieces there as the last thing we're going to cut up the bacon just kind of into small pieces like this so then with that all the ingredients are cut up so for the Cucumber I'm going to Salt this a little bit just about four teaspoon or so for small cucumber like this and then just kind of give a good mix and let it sit like this and let the water come out of the Cucumber as the next thing we're going to boil the potatoes so for the potato they say it's better to boil from the cold water so I'm going to put in here then we going to turn the heat to high and bring this to boil so once this come to boil we're going to turn the heat to medium then we're going to heat like this in medium meat for about 6 to 8 minutes or so until you can stick in the end of the Chopstick without any resistance so 7 minutes has passed so let's see how this turned out Yep this is good let's take all these out so this is finished I'm going to put it to the side and let it cool off and just to be energy efficient I'm going to use the same water to just slightly boil the carrots then I'm going to keep boiling like this immediately me for about 2 minutes or so so just about 2 minutes has passed then this is also finished I'm going to take them out and make sure you drain the water I'm also going to put this theide and let it cool off so as the two ingredients has been cooking as you can see the water has come out so I'm going to squeeze out the water a little bit more then with that this cucumbers also ready so as the last thing to cook I'm going to fry the bacon and also the onions sot in a frying pan turn to heat to high and put in some frying oil just about one to two teaspoon so as this been heat up a little bit and put in first the bacon and then once the bacon has half sear like this I'm going to turn it to medium and put in the cut up onion so as you can see the onion has gotten little half see-through like this this is good I actually don't want to cook the onion too much then this is enough make sure you put in also the bacon grease as well cuz this is also a lot of umami in it then that's done for that so then with that all the ingredients are prepared let's put everything together so in a pot or any container like this I'm going to put all the ingredients so potato carrot and the bacon the onion and also cucumber and here I'm going to put in the qy mayonnaise I really never measure the mayonnaise just put in how much ever you want what I usually do is just about a tablespoon worth for every potato so say 5 tablespoon of mayonnaise just about that much and then black pepper this is also a preference thing just about four to half teaspoon of be enough then just mix this up and as you mix this up you kind of try to break up the potatoes like this you don't need to break up everything but just so that it gets a little bit smooshy there's a recipe you smush all the potatoes but I kind of like to have a little bit chunky like this so not going to smoo everything okay then with that this is finished let's put on a plate then with that Japanese style potato salad is finished let's [Music] eat okay then let's eat oh this looks so good the Moss so delicious this is just really great mix of flavor kind of smells smokiness from the bacon and also the sweetness from the potato and the onion and then you have this crunchiness comes from the cucumber and everything is coated with this creaminess of the mayonnaise it's just really great combination all together and what you can also do is wrap this up in lettuce like this like [Music] moss and this salad has a little bit bitterness to it so this adds another relay to the flavor so delicious oh that was so delicious oh that was so totally Savory so as still making this Japanese style potato sa it's really not that difficult you really don't need any special ingredients for this whenever I make this I make a bigger portion like I did today and then you can put in the fridge and save it for a couple days this serves as perfect side dish for any meal but also to put it in a btone box or something and then you can also be creative what you put inside this is also a great filling for the sandwich so I really hope you give this a try yourself and put it into your repertoire if you did enjoy this video i' love it if it get the like button for me and if you have any requests or any feedback or any questions please feel free toite anything in the comments below and if you want to see more of these videos please subscribe otherwise I look forward to see you in the next video bye [Music]