July 9, 2018Karen
Food,Recipes
I love a good potato salad, but what I love even more is… saffron! Saffron is one of my favorite spices to work with, and it pairs perfectly with potatoes. Today, I’ve partnered with Vitamix to make a simple potato salad with roasted potatoes and saffron aioli. With the Vitamix Aer Disc Container, this potato salad is easy to make and we’re giving away the Vitamix E310with an Aer Disc container so one lucky reader can make this at home! To enter, simply leave a comment letting us know what your you’re excited to make this summer. We will pick a winner on Friday, July 13th!
Elevating a simple summer potato salad with homemade saffron aioli.
Servings: 4-6 people
INGREDIENTS
- 1 pound fingerling potatoes
- large handful haricot vert
- 1/2 head raddichio (thinly sliced)
- 3 egg yolks
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice (divided)
- 1 clove garlic (finely minced)
- 4-5 radishes
- 1/8 teaspoons ground saffron
- 2 tablespoons hot water
- small handful fresh dill
- sea or kosher salt
- freshly ground black pepper
- 1 1/4 cup grapeseed oil or other neutral oil (divided)
INSTRUCTIONS
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Slice the fingerling potatoes and add 1/4 cup oil. Add two heavy pinches of salt and some freshly ground black pepper and toss to coat. Roast for about 15 minutes until golden brown.
- Add the haricot vert to boiling water and boil until just tender, about 2-3 minutes. Strain and add to an ice bath to stop the cooking. Cut the haricot vert in half.
- To make the saffron aioli, ground a couple pinches of saffron in a mortar and pestle until you have 1/8 teaspoons of ground saffron. You can use already ground saffron, but you will get more intense flavor with threads of saffron that you grind. Steep the ground saffron in 2 tablespoons of hot water.
- Add 3 egg yolks to the Vitamix Aer Disc container. Add the steeped saffron, 1 tablespoon of lemon juice and minced garlic. Run the Vitamix on low speed for about 15 seconds. Remove the plug off the lid and slowly add 1 cup of oil in a small thin slow steady stream, increasing the speed as the aioli emulsifies. Add a large pinch of salt at the end. Alternatively, you can whisk the egg yolks, lemon juice and garlic together and with another hand stream in the oil while whisking the egg yolks with the other.
- Toss the fingerling potatoes in about 1/2 of the aioli another 1 tablespoon of lemon juice. Add more aioli if you need more to evenly coat the potatoes. Taste a potato and add more salt if needed. Serve the potatoes on a platter and add the haricot vert, raddichio, radishes and dill. Serve the remaining saffron aioli on the side.
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Conversation
I’m excited to make lots of summer salads — fruits, pastas, potatoes, anything!
I am excited for vine-ripe tomatoes, warm peaches from the trees, and lighting up the grill as often as possible!
Vitamix would be cool!
I am enjoying all the recipes inspired here and will definitely be trying this salad. Thanks for sharing your work!
Excited to make smoothies this summer! A Vitamix would be perfect since I’m going back to school!
I can’t seem to find enough ways to eat fresh fruit during these hot days!
I want to make homemade ice cream this summer
I’m excited to make fruit smoothies!
Well, this, for one because dill and saffron is an excellent combination! (And this would be a perfectly timed score because my old blender just died.)
I’m looking forward to making this salad!
I’m always on the lookout for a nice, healthy potato salad & this hits the spot! Thanks!!
I’m all about blending smoothies, juices, nice creams, salad dressings & pesto!! ♥️♥️
Grill Thai pork skewers brushed with coconut milk 🙂
I’m really excited about smoothies with strawberries and blueberries we’ve picked ourselves.
I’m excited to make a bunch of seafood dishes this summer.
Interesting recipe – maybe even try blending it into potato cakes/fritters. With a Vitamix, there would be many fun options. I’d definitely blend many summer fruits into smoothies, as well!
This potato salad looks absolutely delish! I am looking forward to making twice baked zucchni and avocados! 😀
This recipe looks so good, thanks for the post.
I have a Vitamix that I love, interested in this new attachment.
I always make German potato salad but this looks like a good replacement!
I always want smoothies!
Would love to make a tahini date smoothie with it!
I am excited to make a watermelon and pineapple sangria at the beach!
This Summer I want to make fruit, breakfast smoothies and other juices in a Vitamix!
I want to make some desserts with fresh, summer fruits!
I’m excited to make some fresh salads like the Grilled Green Bean Salad!
This summer I’m loving new salads and I want to make an icebox cake!
Excited to let others cook for me in Croatia/Montenegro!
Wonderful recipe. Terrific appliance.
I’m excited to make a smash cake for my son’s first birthday next month!
I just bought the cutest vintage popsicle molds. Would love a vitamix to put them to use!
Love, love, love the vibrant colors of this potato salad!
I’m looking forward to making all kinds of dipping sauces, herb oils, and pestos to accompany grilled veg and meat — they make each meal special.
I’m excited to make sweet corn gazpacho!
Summer salads and frozen drinks!
Excited to make pesto this summer. Thanks for the giveaway!
This summer, I can’t wait to make a strawberry rhubarb pie! Luckily, I froze some rhubarb when it was in the markets, and now the in-season strawberries are extra tasty.
Hello!
I’ve been following your recipies for several years now, and they always make me dream!! Saffron aïoli is a provençal specialty called «rouille» and it’s traditionally served with fish soup!
Kisses from France
I’m excited to make guacamole this summer.
This summer I’m looking forward to making chunky chicken salad and (cold) Spring Pea Soup.
I am excited to make lots of picnic food. Salads, pasta dishes, vegetable dishes. We try and take a picnic 3 times a week to share with friends while we watch amazing concerts in the park in Chicago.
I want to try making my own nut milks and some more adventurous iterations of pesto (broccoli rabe pesto, arugula pesto, etc!).
some nice cool smoothies or milkshakes 😉
I’m excited to make smoothies this summer!
I’m excited to make all kinds of hummus!
I’m excited to make ice-cream!
I can’t wait to try making my own coconut yogurt and mix in some Summer fruit!
I’m excited to make smoothies using all the fresh fruit. I’m also looking forward to lots of grilled fish & seafood.
I love fingerling potatoes! I’d like to try baby back ribs on the grill this summer! And I’ve got a recipe for grilled pork tenderloin and grilled peaches that I can’t wait to try.
I am excited to make this delicious sounding saffron aioli! In addition, I am excited to make a variety of dipping sauces for summer grilled meats and veggies! I’m thinking Dukkah inspired dips, sauces of blended fresh peppers and herbs from the garden, spicy Thai inspired chimichuri with plenty of Thai basil, and tahini sauces for grilled veggies, mmmm! Thanks for all of your beautiful inspiring recipes and tips, LOVE your site!!
Would love to use the Vitamix to make smoothies and popsicles to stay cool in DC!
This potato salad will pair perfectly with the grilled salmon I am making tonite!
Excited to make lots of smoothies this summer! This is the BEST season for fruit. A Vitamix would be the perfect tool for smoothie making!
Anything with all of the seasonal fruits and veg – berries, peaches, melon, peppers, tomatoes, into infinity <3
Excited to make some new salads like this one for family events and summer picnics!
Excited to make some stone fruit crisps!
I’m excited to try this salad. Finally a salad with a character and it can be a meal on itself. Thank you
I’m excited beacause I’m going to go on a trip so I have to take some picnic food 🙂 I love simple, fresh, summer picnic food & drinks! Summer is the best!
I’m excited to make BLTs & corn! The epitome of summer food for me.
I am most interested in potato salad. You can make it an endless number of ways, and it goes well with most foods.
All in on the tomato confit! Perfect summer time snack with grilled bread and burrata! HYUM rocks!!!
I’m excited to grill some fish while on vacation. I’m also excited to try this salad.
Summer cooking is the best! The next thing I’ll be making is peach crisp ice cream. So good!
Excited to make anything with stone fruit and berries.
I’d love to make nut milk in the vitamix so i can have all the iced matcha latte..right now, my blender sucks 🙁
Blood orange, chilli, red onion and fennel salad!
I’m super excited to make spumoni. Softened vanilla gelato, a handful of toasted almonds, dark cherries, and a splash of amaretto go into the blender for a quick whiz to combine the flavors. Then I layer it in a loaf pan with pistachio and chocolate gelati, (freezing between the addition of each layer) and top with amaretto-spiked whipped cream. After a final hour in the freezer, slice and serve. It’s heavenly.
Nothing says summer like fresh peaches with buratta drizzled with a arugula pesto (made in a Vitamix would be perfect!) and finished with a little bit of chopped pistachios.
I’m excited to make the Stone Fruit Salad recipe you guys wrote about last summer! That was my go-to salad last summer and I’m excited to make it again now that the fruits are back in season:)
I would love to try this beautiful recipe as well as raspberry ice cream.
Love cooking fresh summer vegetables! Black-eyed peas, squash, corn. All from the garden!
I loooove potato salad! But I’m mostly excited to eat all the farmers market tomatoes in basically everything.
Anything with summer stone fruits & berries!
I am excited to make caprese salad!!!! I want to eat all of the tomatoes!!!
I’m really excited to cook few recipes from “One Good Recipe” by David Tanis, like Egyptian Breakfast Beans, Rice Porridge with Salted Egg! I’m Japanese, so I make a lot of rice porridge, and having a good blender is really nice, so I can shorten cook time. Also, I’m absolutely going to try your recipe too! Saffron Aioli sounds so good 🙂
Summer produces the best produce. I’m excited to be making dishes with zucchini, corn, tomatoes, peaches, watermelon, cherries, nectarines, berries…the list goes on!
I am excited to make this! A wonderful new inspiring potato salad recipe!
I’m excited for grilled corn on the cob! Anything on the grill really and that Vitamix would be perfect for whipping up sauces with all the fresh herbs from our garden!
I want to try making cold soups this summer… like an avocado, green apple and spinach one!
I just found the recipe for our family’s favorite picnic salad that I haven’t made for twenty years because I lost the recipe. I am very excited to make it for a church picnic this week!
Been trying different recipes for egg salads and new dip recipes for all the wonderful vegetables that are in season now. Would love to try the new Vitamix!
Fresh stone fruit margaritas!
I’m excited to make this! It looks absolutely gorgeous!!
Agua Frescas, fresh fruit salsas, pickled veggies, jams, chutneys, outdoor pizzas, can’t beat fresh produce.
Margaritas!
I love a gazpacho in the summer, so refreshing and cool.
I am excited to make gazpacho
Anything that involves produce!! There’s nothing like fresh tomatoes, cucumbers, and basil.
Excited to puree watermelon for beverages (co*cktails and kid-friendly) in a new Vitamix!
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