WHAT’S COOKING: Two good reasons why Braai Day can be a Salad Day too
Ring the changes with a cheerful innovation on a potato salad, and a couscous salad of delicious simplicity.
Braai Day is ideal for a potato salad, but it can also be a Salad Day with a twist. Two refreshing salads - sweet potato and couscous - showcase the versatility of sweet potatoes and their role in a healthy diet. Orange sweet potatoes, known as Beauregard, Garnet, or Jewel potatoes, are preferred over pink ones that go by Boniata or Batata.
The writer prefers sweet potatoes for their vibrant orange hue. In America, sweet potatoes are misleadingly called "yams". Three orange sweet potatoes, diced into 1-cm pieces, make up a sweet potato salad. To add variety, dried cling peaches, spring onions, and feta are included. Tony's orange sweet potato salad serves 6-8 as a side dish.
For the dressing, a blend of apple cider vinegar, olive oil, Maille honey mustard, pimentón, oregano, and salt is used. The couscous salad follows a similar pattern with baby fennel, spinach, black beans, and feta. A lime vinaigrette completes the dish. This salad also serves 4-6 as a side dish. Tony Jackman, a twice Galliova Food Writer of the Year award winner, highlights the potential of Braai Day to offer more than just a potato salad.
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