Potato salad with eggs and tomatoes

POTATO SALAD WITH EGGS AND TOMATOES

(Cretan recipe)

Ingredients

1 kg boiled potatoes

4 eggs cooked tight

1 medium dry onion

4 medium tomatoes for salad

1tsp vinegar

2 cloves garlic

Salt and pepper to taste

80 grams of oil

Instructions

Wash the potatoes under the faucet with plenty of water. Scrub them with a brush and wash again. All dirt should go.

Put the potatoes in a pot. Pour water in the pot until it covers them and reaches 2 cm above them.

Put the pot over high heat and leave the potatoes to boil.

As soon as the start boiling, lower the heat to medium.

Let the potatoes to boil until they are soft and tender.

When the potatoes are boiled cracks appear on their skin.

If you drive a fork in one of them, it nails easily into its flesh.

With a slotted spoon remove the potatoes from the water and put them in a pan.

Let them cool and then clean them by removing their skins.

Put them in a salad bowl and cut them in pieces, as a nut each.

Peel the eggs. Cut each egg into 4 pieces. Put the egg pieces into the potatoes. 

Chop the garlic and put the pieces in the potatoes.

Wash the tomatoes and cut them as in salad.

Put the tomatoes pieces into the potatoes.

Add the onion coarsely cut.

Put oil, salt, a little black pepper and vinegar over the potatoes.

Mix well all the ingredients together.

Try the taste. If you don’t like it, correct seasoning.