Simple But Tasty Potato And Pancetta Salad

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 1 kg new potato
• 3 shallots
• 20 g fresh chives
• 200 g pancetta
• 5 tablespoons low-fat mayonnaise
• 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
• cayenne pepper
• black pepper

Recipe

• 1 steam the new potatoes in their skins. put aside to cool down.
• 2 while the potatoes cool cook the pancetta until crispy (cook in it's own fat that it releases, no added oil). i use smoked pancetta for a nice flavour but unsmoked is fine. once crispy add the finely chopped shallots and chives for the last 2 minutes only so they are partly cooked but still with "crunch" not fully softened.
• 3 peel the potatoes now that they have cooled down then mix with the pancetta, oinon and chives. leave the mixture to cool fully.
• 4 mix the mayonnaise, (i use extra light as i like to limit the fat but you can use normal if you prefer) with the extra virgin olive oil, a good shake of cayenne pepper and plenty of ground black pepper to season.
• 5 fold the potato mixture into the mayo and oil and chill until needed.