Meleg Krumplisaláta is a warm summery potato salad from Hungarian Cuisine. Served with grilled meats, sauteed veggies or a warm loaf of bread.
A potato salad is quintessential when you think of Vegetarian cuisine outside India. Wiki tells us we have about 60-80 varieties of Potato Salad across the world – and these are documented recipes. There might be at least that many or even double that number which are followed by home chefs, sometimes a guarded recipe passed down generations.
There’s definitely something about the tuber that makes it endearing to potato lovers across the globe, be it in the warm or cold versions.
Today, we try a Warm potato salad – Meleg Krumplisaláta (Pronounced as May-leg KROOM-plee-shaw-lah taw) from Hungary (a Central-European Nation) that had us tickled pink as we had it over one weekend for brunch along with some Wholewheat Garlic Knots and it was a yummy meal for sure.
Other quick and delish salads that you may want to try soon:
The original recipe also included hardboiled eggs which we skipped. Its a delicious salad that you cant have enough.. Crazily enough even my LO was licking her teeny weeny portion as if she liked it :-))So, come summer (or winter), this salad is sure to wow you !
Country : Hungary ; Dish : Meleg Krumplisaláta – Warm potato salad
Serving suggestions : grilled veggies or meats or a warm bread
Prep time : 15 mins | Cook time: 10 mins | Serves : 4
Adapted from here
What you need to make Meleg Krumplisaláta
- 6 Potatoes ( firm – boiled, peeled and sliced)
- 1 tsp Salt
- 1/2 cracked pepper (or to taste)
- 1 TBSP Olive oil ( you can also use 1 TBSP Butter)
- 1/2 cup Sour Cream (See quick tip below for Sour cream substitute for this salad)
- 1 Onion ( medium ,finely chopped or use green and white portions of scallion)
- 1/2 TBSP parsley (finely chopped, or sub with chives or dill)
How to make Meleg Krumplisaláta
- Peel the boiled potatoes and get thickish slices (you can also cube them if you wish).
- In a pan, saute onions in butter or olive oil.
- Add sour cream and stir on low flame, add salt and pepper. switch off flame in 2 mins
- Drizzle this sauce over the warm sliced potatoes. Drizzle more oil if you wish and garnish.
Quick tip for Sour cream :
Blend together about 50 gms of paneer, a dollop of yoghurt and a dash of lime juice to get a smooth, instant sour
cream substitute.
Either way, ensure that the sauce isn’t boiled or simmered, but just blended enough to pour over the potatoes. Add a dash of milk to make the sauce a lil more runny, if you wish.
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Meleg Krumplisaláta – Hungarian Warm Potato Salad Recipe
Equipment
- Bowl
- Knife and Cutting Board
Ingredients
- 6 Potatoes firm – boiled, peeled and sliced
- 1 tsp Salt
- 1/2 cracked pepper or to taste
- 1 TBSP Olive oil you can also use 1 TBSP Butter
- 1/2 cup Sour Cream See quick tip below for Sour cream substitute for this salad
- 1 Onion medium ,finely chopped or use green and white portions of scallion
- 1/2 TBSP parsley finely chopped, or sub with chives or dill
Instructions
- Peel the boiled potatoes and get thickish slices (you can also cube them if you wish).
- In a pan, saute onions in butter or olive oil.
- Add sour cream and stir on low flame, add salt and pepper. switch off flame in 2 mins
- Drizzle this sauce over the warm sliced potatoes.
- Drizzle more oil if you wish and garnish.
Notes
cream substitute. Either way, ensure that the sauce isn’t boiled or simmered, but just blended enough to pour over the potatoes. Add a dash of milk to make the sauce a lil more runny, if you wish.
Looks great, I would add the eggs too. A really nice potato salad variation.
The salad looks delicious. .creamy and tempting. Potatoes in any form are welcome. And ya I like that tip.
Interesting to note another potato salad..guess end of this journey we will have loads of salads!
WIsh i get a plate of this delicious potato warm salad, too good to enjoy thoroughly for a meal.
Potatoes must have tasted good in that creamy base.
That is such a creamy & yummy potato salad.
Warm dressing sounds very nice. Lovely salad.
omg such an filling and iviting potato salad 🙂 love the creamy dressing .. looks too yummm !!
Looks awesome, Kalyani. I felt it was more like aloo chaat (different flavors maybe but still ) 🙂
What an amazingly simple salad! Will keep that sour cream substitute in mind 🙂
I am a big potato fan and this salad looks perfect for me. Bookmarked !
so creamy must be delicious
I have once tried a version of potato salad and loved it so much. This version looks so inviting..
collected so many potato salads during this BM run, life will be short to make and eat them all 🙂
Thanks, that was a really cool read! Hungarian goose down duvet
Love the sour cream substitute and the salad was yum! An easy potato salad recipe to fix when having a grill party or otherwise.
absolutely- grill parties go so well with this salad – thanks for trying
In the midst of this heat, I am sure my family will love these flavours. The comfort of potatoes with the creamy dressing sounds perfect.
thanks Seema. Am sure your family will love these flavours.
The addition of sour cream has elevated this dish. Lovely and easy one to make for a quick lunch fix.
Asbsolutely, Jayashree. During summers, this is a quick brunch by itself
A lovely warm salad indeed! I make a similar one with yoghurt sans sour cream. Now I will try out this Hungarian Salad. I liked the substitute of readymade sour cream. I will use this option for sour cream in this salad. Full of flavors from parsley and crackled pepper!
oh the yoghurt version is lovely – like a raita. But we used sour cream here
A warm potato salad makes a perfect side dish or a light meal during the winter season. We love it.. I like using sour cream and add boiled egg for added protein.
Yes mayuri, sour cream works well here, as we don’t eat eggs, we didnt add it
My nephew suddendly rang up saying he is coming over for lunch. I made this potato salad and we loved it. Used your tip to make the sour cream and the bowl is wiped clean by the kid. Thanks.
wow- that sounds so good that he liked it too, Archana
Kalyani, this potato salad looks amazing and so easy to put together. I will be definitely trying this soon.
Thank you sarika
Potato salad looks inviting kalyani. Soft potatoes with a creamy sour cream dressing sounds delish! With summer around the corner, such quick salad ideas along with a one pot meal is going to be a regular at home! Lovely share!
Thanks Priya. Yes it goes so well with a one pot meal or even grilled veggies