A potato salad made from sweet potatoes: Apples and pears give it fruity freshness, the potato-based dressing makes it velvety and a few slices of a spicy chorizo ​​add that certain something. A wonderful winter meal!

I know the sweet potato from the old days of container shipping. Back then, many a sailor with a “green thumb” grew sweet potatoes in his cabin. The long tendrils and attractive leaves grow, no, they proliferate at breakneck speed, and so an entire wall in the cabin was quickly planted. The fact that you only had to put a tuber in a water glass was extremely advantageous. So earth wasn’t absolutely necessary. And, as is well known, earth on board a ship brings bad luck, according to old sailor superstitions. At least as much misery as women on board. But that’s a story from a completely different century…

The sweet potato is one of the oldest vegetables known to man and originally comes from South America. Today you can get them in almost every organic or supermarket and at the weekly markets as well.

For this sweet potato salad, the dressing is made from potatoes and a little crème fariche, a great dressing that also goes well with many other salads. I recommend a spicy chorizo ​​(picante) for this salad. If you don’t like it that spicy, choose the mild chorizo ​​dulce.

If you don’t know sweet potatoes yet, be sure to try the recipe and let me know how you liked it (everyone else, too, of course).