Cretan Potato and Egg Salad (Greek)

Love and Calories present to you some healthy eating options as well. I thought of including some quick to make dishes, which anybody can prepare, in no time and will be a "less oil, no fry" task too. My first recipe will be a "Cretan Potato & Egg Salad". Sounds posh isn't it?? :) Well, I believe that more complicated or sophisticated the name of a recipe, the more easier it is to be prepared. You will know why.....:)

The two main ingredients of this Greek Summer salad are the Cretan potatoes and hard boiled eggs. Potatoes grown in Crete (a sunny coastal region in Greece) has a warmer flavour to it, which makes this salad more flavourful. Now we can't go to Greece to get those potatoes but we definitely can use the normal ones for this salad. Because potatoes will be always delicious, wherever it is grown..Right?? ;)

Ingredients:

• 4 medium sized potatoes (cut to medium cubes, do not peel the skin)
• 3 eggs (hard boiled)
• 1 big red onion (chopped)
• 2 medium tomatoes (sliced)
• 10-12 olives
• olive oil (for drizzling)
• red wine vinegar (you can substitute with ordinary vinegar or lime juice)
• salt and pepper

Method:

1. Boil the cubed potatoes (without peeling the skin) in a saucepan immersed in salty water. Hard boil the eggs for 20 minutes simultaneously in another burner.
2. Let the potatoes and eggs cool down and then peel the potato skin and egg shells. Slice the eggs.
3. Season both eggs and potatoes with salt and pepper and then sprinkle them with vinegar.
4. Add chopped tomatoes and sliced onions to it and season again with salt and pepper accordingly. Make sure its not too salty.
5. Drizzle generously some olive oil to the salad. Now put the olives at the end to the salad.
6. Perfect Greek Salad is ready to serve. This is quite a filling meal for those who are on a diet. :)