This Probiotic Kimchi Potato salad not only tastes fantastic but is also great for gut health due to its Prebiotic (from potatoes) and Probiotic (from Kimchi) contents.
Prebiotics, other wise known as Resistance Starch, are carbohydrates that don’t digest in the small intestine, but do further down in the large intestine, providing much needed food for your biome.
By eating Probiotics (beneficial bacteria naturally occurring in kimchi and sauerkraut) with prebiotics, you are creating a food for the good guys to move in and take over.
Cooking and then cooling a potato increasing it’s resistant starch content by 55%. So if you are having potato salad of any type, be sure to add some sauerkraut or kimchi to your plate, and you will get the same benefit.
Ingredients:
- 1kg of red potatoes or other suitable salad variety
- 200g of green beans
- 410 of gold kimchi, white kimchi or red kimchi (red used in picture)
- 70g of mayo or cashew cheese (mayo used in picture)
- salt to taste
- optional extras (boiled egg wedges, bacon pieces or protein of choice, corn kernels, red onion, fresh coriander)
Method:
- Wash and cut potatoes into even size cubes.
- Trim beans and cut into bite sized pieces
- Place potatoes in large pot with cold water and bring to boil.
- Check potatoes regularly after the boiling starts with a fork, add the beans for the last minute of cooking.
- Drain potatoes and beans into a colander and leave to cool completely
- Chop up the kimchi and mix well with the mayo/cashew cheese and other optional ingredients.
- Rinse the kimchi pack or jar clean and leave it on your dish rack to dry overnight, so you can add it to your soft plastic recycling to return to store or your council collection bin.
- Mix kimchi dressing onto cold potatoes/bean gently.
- Taste, add salt and coriander to taste.
- Mix well to combine.
Serve immediately if desired, but it’s best made around 4 hours before (or the day before) as the flavours will have more time to meld.
This Kimchi Potato Salad will keep well in the fridge for days. The less air in the container, the longer it will keep. No double dipping.
Enjoy
