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Spicy North African Potato Salad

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Spicy North African Potato Salad

About this recipe

Moroccan cooking is built on the tagine — slow-cooked dishes of lamb, chicken, or vegetables with preserved lemon, olives, and warm spices (cumin, paprika, saffron, ras el hanout) — alongside flatbreads and couscous. Sweet and savoury blend casually.

As a vegetarian dish, Spicy North African Potato Salad is meatless but not minimal — built around vegetables, pulses, dairy, and grains that anchor every cooking tradition's day-to-day repertoire.

Use the scaler above to set the number of servings you actually want to cook — quantities resize with culinary fractions, units promote sensibly (three teaspoons become a tablespoon), and the result reads like the recipe was written for your table.

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Method

  1. Cook potatoes - place potatoes in a pot of cold water, and bring to the boil. Boil 20 minutes, or until potatoes are tender. You know they are cooked when you can stick a knife in them and the knife goes straight through.
  2. Combine harissa spice, olive oil, salt and pepper and lemon juice in a small bowl and whisk until combined.
  3. Once potatoes are cooked, drain water and roughly chop potatoes in half.
  4. Add harissa mix and spring onions/green onions to potatoes and stir.
  5. In a large salad bowl, lay out arugula/rocket.
  6. Top with potato mix and toss.
  7. Add fetta, mint and sprinkle over pine nuts.
  8. Adjust salt and pepper to taste.

Cooking notes

Most vegetable dishes scale linearly, but be mindful of pan crowding — vegetables that should brown will steam instead if packed too tightly.

For volume-to-weight conversions of any ingredient — flour, sugar, butter, salts — use the ingredient converter. To translate the recipe's oven temperature between °C, °F and gas mark, see the temperature converter.

When you scale this recipe up or down, remember that cooking time does not scale linearly. A doubled cake takes longer, but not twice as long; a doubled soup takes roughly twice as long. The cooking-time guide gives sensible starting estimates by dish geometry.

Scaling notes

Scaling Spicy North African Potato Salad

Spicy North African Potato Salad is written for around four servings as it stands on this page — scaling it up for a party or down for a meal-for-one is the small math problem most home cooks face every week. Here's how this particular dish responds to scaling, what changes linearly, and what doesn't.

Vegetarian recipes like Spicy North African Potato Salad are among the easiest to scale because most ingredients respond linearly to multiplication. The main constraints are pan capacity (crowding causes steaming, not the browning the recipe assumes) and seasoning intensity (use 1.5× the salt and spices when doubling, taste, adjust upward).

Skip the math entirely — ScaleRecipe's scaler rewrites every ingredient line above with proper culinary fractions and smart unit promotion the moment you change the serving count. Open the scaler →

Beyond the recipe

Substitutions & make-ahead — Spicy North African Potato Salad

If you're cooking Spicy North African Potato Salad for a future meal (or doubling up for leftovers), here's how this dish handles storage, reheating, and the timing decisions most recipes don't spell out.

Make-ahead, storage, and reheating

Vegetarian dishes like Spicy North African Potato Salad sit comfortably in the make-ahead window — they store and reheat better than meat-centric dishes. Refrigerate 3-4 days; freeze most pulse, grain, or cooked-vegetable preparations for up to 2 months. The exceptions are dishes with raw or barely-cooked elements (salads, fresh herbs, anything crispy) — those components should be added at serving time, not stored with the rest.

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