Recipes · inspired by Taramasalata in the manga Kitchen Princess, volume 1
Quick Tarama Potato Salad
The Japanese-style take on taramasalata: creamy mashed potato mixed with salty cod roe, lemon and mayo. Great on crackers.
- Ready in
- 13 min
- Ingredients
- 5
- Makes
- 4 small servings
- Level
- easy
Kitchen Princess is a manga by Natsumi Ando and Miyuki Kobayashi in which every chapter is named after a dish. This is our own quick, family-friendly version of that dish, not the recipe from the book.
Greek taramasalata is a dip of fish roe whipped with bread and olive oil. In Japan the same idea is usually made with potato, which makes it milder and very kid-friendly. The roe is cured, so it is ready to eat straight from the pack.
No roe? Finely chopped smoked salmon gives a similar salty, pink result.
Make it a learning moment: each little dot in the roe is a fish egg. Ask your kids to guess how many are in one spoonful.
Ingredients
Steps
Kids a child can do this step Grown-up hot, sharp or tricky
- Grown-up Wash the potatoes, poke them a few times with a fork and microwave them for 6 to 8 minutes, until soft all the way through.
- Grown-up Let them cool for a couple of minutes, then peel and mash them in a bowl.
- Grown-up Slit the thin skin of the cod roe with a knife and scrape the tiny eggs out into the bowl.
- Kids Add the mayonnaise and lemon juice and stir everything together until it is pink and creamy.
- Kids Spread it on crackers or toast.
