North African Inspired Spicy Potato Salad
The Home Cooks Kitchen
Love a salad that packs a punch? Try this spicy potato salad inspired by one of my favourite North African spices - harissa. This recipe is so easy to make, requiring just 10 ingredients!
Prep Time 10 minutes mins
Cook Time 20 minutes mins
Total Time 30 minutes mins
Course Salad
Cuisine North African
Servings 4 people
Calories 168 kcal
- 8 oz small potatoes note 1
- 1 teaspoon harissa spice note 2
- 2 teaspoon olive oil
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 4 spring onions/green onions
- 6 oz arugula/rocket note 3
- 3 oz feta
- 20 mint leaves roughly chopped
- 2 tablespoon pine nuts
- salt and pepper to taste
Cook potatoes - place potatoes in a pot of cold water, and bring to the boil. Boil 20 minutes, or until potatoes are tender. You know they are cooked when you can stick a knife in them and the knife goes straight through.
Combine harissa spice, olive oil, salt and pepper and lemon juice in a small bowl and whisk until combined.
Once potatoes are cooked, drain water and roughly chop potatoes in half.
Add harissa mix and spring onions/green onions to potatoes and stir.
In a large salad bowl, lay out arugula/rocket.
Top with potato mix and toss.
Add fetta, mint and sprinkle over pine nuts.
Adjust salt and pepper to taste.
Note 1 - in Australia, the tiniest potatoes I would use would be chat potatoes. In America, I use the smallest potatoes I can find. Baby red potatoes work a treat, or any others that you can find! We have some beauties here that are mixed colour which are wonderful. If you can't find small potatoes, use a red potato like a russet and just cup them into halves or quarters.
Note 2 - harissa is easy to find in most supermarkets. In Australia, Master Foods have a harissa spice that is found in supermarkets. In America, I found mine in World Market. If you can't find it, I might suggest using a spice mix of cumin, coriander, cayenne (just a smidge) and paprika. I haven't tried it, but these spices marry well together.
Note 3 - I'm really bad at measuring things like salad leaves! About 3 decent sized handfuls should be enough, but it really depends on how many people you are aiming to feed or how many leftovers you want!