Chinese-style potato salad is a spicy Sichuan dish served as an appetizer in restaurants around the Republic. Similar to American and European potato salads, Chinese-style potato salads use waxy types of potatoes that are firm and less starchy than sweet potatoes or russets.
Instead of slicing the potatoes into chunks and boiling them, this recipe uses potatoes more like vegetables and less like starches. The objective is to remove all starch and maintain a crunchy texture as if this were a raw shredded carrot or zucchini salad. Once you rid the potatoes of their skin, you shred them into thin slivers and cook them in boiling water for just a couple of minutes before blanching them in cold water and drying them with a cloth.
You can throw in raw slivered veggies like carrots or thin enoki mushrooms for uniform shapes with varied textures. You can add the sauce's ingredients directly to the veggies, pouring scallion oil, sesame oil, chili oil or whole Sichuan peppercorns, soy sauce, rice vinegar, sugar, and minced garlic, then stirring to coat. Some recipes heat the sauce in a skillet for more fragrance before pouring it over the shredded potato. Others forgo boiling the potatoes and instead opt to stir-fry the potatoes in the sauce for a few minutes. The desired result is a crunchy, spicy, savory, and slightly sweet salad that is highly flavorful and not heavy.
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