Name: Potato salad with bacon & mustard
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 1kg new potatoes scrubbed; 200g lardon or chopped bacon; bunch chives snipped; 1 tbsp walnut oil or hazelnut oil; 2 tbsp sunflower oil groundnut oil or corn oil; 3 tbsp Dijon mustard; 5 tsp white wine vinegar; 200ml single cream

1kg new potatoes
scrubbed
200g lardon
or chopped bacon
bunch chives
snipped

For the dressing

1 tbsp walnut oil
or hazelnut oil
2 tbsp sunflower oil
groundnut oil or corn oil
3 tbsp Dijon mustard
5 tsp white wine vinegar
200ml single cream

Method

step 1
For the dressing put the oils, mustard and vinegar into a bowl with ¼ tsp each salt and pepper and whisk hard for 3 mins. Add cream and stir in. Keep at room temperature until ready to serve.
step 2
Boil potatoes for 12-15 mins until tender, drain, then when cool enough to handle, halve. Meanwhile, fry lardons with lots of black pepper until golden. Mix together the potatoes, lardons and chives. Pour over the dressing and mix again.