Favorite Potato Salad

Total Time: 1 hr 5 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 2 lbs red potatoes, scrubbed,unpeeled and boiled
• 4 hard-boiled eggs
• 1 cup red onion, sliced thin
• 1 lb baby spinach, stemmed,washed and dried
• 1 cup fresh basil leaf, torn
• 2 cups cooked chickpeas (or canned chick peas)
• 4 anchovies, mashed
• 1 lemon
• 1 1/2 tablespoons dijon mustard
• 3/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
• 4 cloves garlic, mashed
• salt and pepper

Recipe

• 1 if the potatoes are small, halve them; if they are larger, slice them
• 2 keep the potatoes warm
• 3 whisk together the juice from the lemon and the mustard and the mashed garlic and anchovies
• 4 slowly add the olive oil while whisking to form an emulsion
• 5 combine the warm potatoes, onions, chick peas and basil in a large bowl
• 6 pour the dressing over the potato mixture and toss
• 7 arrange spinach on four plates
• 8 slice each hardboiled egg into quarters; arrange four quarters of egg on each plate
• 9 mound potato mixture on top of spinach