[Intro music]
This potato salad is flavorful thanks to the fresh dill and
chopped gherkins along with a mayonnaise and sour cream dressing.
What makes it a VIP salad is the addition of crab
or lobster meat.
To make this VIP potato salad you will need: chopped capers,
chopped gherkins, mayonnaise, sour cream,
finely sliced green onions, finely diced red onions,
finely diced fennel, finely diced celery, hard-boiled egg,
red wine vinegar, mustard Dijon, seasoning, salt
and freshly ground peppercorns, fresh dill, cooked crab,
so just the meat, and boiled potatoes.
With a paring knife, just peel the potatoes.
So I boil the potatoes until just cooked
to make sure they don't fall apart or break apart.
Remove any eyes if any. There we go.
Then dice the potato.
Some people will leave the skin if you like it, why not.
Personally I don't, so I prefer to pick it up. Good.
Cut the egg into four quarters and dice them.
Add the gherkins, the chopped capers, the green onions,
the diced fennel, the celery, the sour cream, the red onions,
the vinegar, the Dijon mustard.
Mix well. [mixing sounds]
Add the mayonnaise.
Mix well. [mixing sounds]
Season with salt and pepper.
Then chop the dill.
Separate the leaves from the stems.
I'm going to keep this one to garnish.
Remove the big stems like that.
And chop the dill very fine. [chopping sounds]
The finer you will chop it, the more flavor you will release.
Add the chopped dill to the potato salad.
And mix well.
Taste. Mm, very flavorful, crunchy from the celery
and the fennel. Really nice.
Now let's plate the salad.
Serve the salad into a bowl
or plate it the way I'm going to show you.
So I have a stainless steel ring, it's about five inches.
Place the ring in the center of the plate
and fill it with potato salad.
So fill it by about three-quarters of the height.
We want to leave some room for the shellfish.
Then press the food down. Good.
Then add the crab. Press the crab down with your spoon.
I'll put in a bit more. Work on the edges of the ring.
Place the spoon over the crab to keep the food in place,
and lift the ring up.
Then decorate with a little bit of tomato.
Cut the tomato into quarters.
Remove the seeds.
And cut it like a fan if you want or julienne.
Add a dill sprig over the crab and decorate with paprika oil.
Et voila. Bon Appetit. Potato salad VIP style.