Lebanese Potato Salad With Spring Onion (Salata Batata)

Lebanese potato salad is delightfully light and pairs well with most foods. Creamy potato tossed through fresh and dried herbs in a lemon and olive oil dressing.

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• 🥔What is Lebanese Potato Salad With Spring Onion?
• 😋Why You'll Love This Recipe
• 🥔 Ingredients You'll Need
• 🥔How To Make Lebanese Potato Salad
• 🌟Pro Tips
• 🍴Serving Suggestions
• 🥔Related Recipes
• Lebanese Potato Salad With Spring Onion (Salata Batata)

🥔What is Lebanese Potato Salad With Spring Onion?

In Arabic , Lebanese potato salad with spring onion is called salata batata (or salatet batata) which literally translates to potato salad.

It is normally served as a side and is made without any dairy or cream. Quite simply it is boiled potatoes cut into mouth sized pieces that have been tossed through fresh spring onions, herbs (both fresh and dry) and finished with freshly squeezed lemon and extra virgin olive oil.

😋Why You'll Love This Recipe

• This salad goes well with just about anything
• Light and tasty - doesn't feel heavy once consumed.
• It's suits loads of special diets; vegan, dairy free, gluten free, egg free.
• Super easy and can be made in around 20 minutes.

🥔 Ingredients You'll Need

Notes on some of the ingredients, the full list of ingredients and their measurements can be found in the recipe card below.

Potatoes that can be boiled or steamed are perfect for this salad. Try using an all-rounder potato. The potatoes will need to be peeled and cut uniformly into bite sized pieces to ensure they cook evenly. Cool the potatoes prior to tossing this salad. 

Fresh flat leaved parsley should be chopped small. Do not use the hard stalks.

Spring onions (scallions) finely sliced. These can be replaced with shallots, white or red onion.

Dried ground mint a little of this goes a long way and gives this Lebanese potato salad a coolness. You can swap this out for fresh mint leaves that are finely sliced.

Garlic Clove, whilst completely optional, is quite delicious. Only a small clove is needed which is crushed.

Extra virgin olive oil (affiliate link) it is important to use serisoulys good olive oil. It is imperative to the taste.

Fresh lemon juice is an important part of the dressing, you can adjust this to suit to your liking.

Salt and pepper can be added to taste.

🥔How To Make Lebanese Potato Salad

Step one - Cut potato into bite sized pieces and place into a pot with water and boil until tender, strain and set aside

Step two - Trim off hard stalks and chop parsley - not to coarse or fine

Step three - Finely chop shallots (scallion)

Step four - In a mixing bowl, add potato, parsley, shallots, mint and mix

Step five - Add olive oil, lemon juice and salt and pepper to your liking. Serve cold

🌟Pro Tips

Do not over boil potatoes as they will fall apart

When tossing this salad, be gentle to keep the potatoes in their shape

Be as liberal as you want with the olive oil, lemon juice, salt and pepper (I don't know of any Lebanese family that actually measures) this is usually to your liking

If you'd like a bit of a chili kick, add some chili to suit - either fresh or dried.

🍴Serving Suggestions

Lebanese potato salad with spring onion is typically served as a side normally at BBQ's, give these tofu skewers a try, the flavoring is based on shish tawook. You can add a serving of air fryer corn ribs and some baba ghanouj (eggplant dip).

🥔Related Recipes

If you're a potato lover like I am, then have a try at these recipes;

Cold potato kibbeh

Crispy sweet potato chips

Flavorsome Sweet potato zucchini fritters

Easy vegan shepherd's pie gluten free

Simple Tomato Salad

Or try Lebanese butter bean salad.

batata harra which are spicy potatoes.

Or, check out this curated list of vegan potato recipes or this list of delicious Lebanese salads.