Potato Salad with Mushrooms and Chevre

Total time: 30 minutes
     Warm, crisp, sautéed potatoes, mushrooms and garlic enveloped in creamy, melted soft goat cheese;  finished with lots of fresh basil and chives, this is not your ordinary potato salad.  Full of complex flavors, it is best served with simple, grilled meat of fish.

 Ingredients:

• 2 medium potatoes, 300gr, 10.6oz
• 3oz (90gr) mushrooms, 84gr, 3oz
• 2 cloves garlic, 6gr, .2oz
• 1/3 container soft goat cheese (chevre)   my 'brand' is Chevraux, I think in the U.S. it's Chavrie; it comes in a square-ish cardboard or plastic container, 5.5oz (150gr), 60gr, 2.2oz
• handful fresh basil leaves - about 3 tbs
• 2 tbs fresh chives, snipped
• 2 tbs olive oil, 27gr, .96oz

 Instructions:

• Slice potatoes into quarters the long way and then 1/2" (1.25cm) thick slices.
• Trim and slice mushrooms. 
• Mince garlic. 
• Heat 1 tbs oil in large nonstick skillet over medium heat.  Add mushrooms and garlic and sauté until they start to brown, about 5 minutes. 
• Remove to a bowl and set aside.  Do not cover.  
• Add remaining tbs oil and potatoes to skillet.  Toss a bit to coat potatoes with oil, then cover and let cook about 10 minutes. 
• Uncover, stir and let sauté, turning occasionally.  You want them nice and brown.  If they start getting too brown before you are ready to finish just turn the heat to low and keep warm in the skillet. 
• When ready to finish add potatoes to mushrooms and garlic.  
• Add chevre and toss to coat - the cheese will melt a bit from the heat of the potatoes. 
• Snip basil and chives with scissors and add, stirring to combine.  Serve.

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Nutrition Information               Recipe serves 2             Entire Recipe / per serving Calories:  591 / 295 Total Carbohydrates:  59 / 29.5           Dietary Fiber: 8 / 4 Total Fat:  34 / 17          Saturated Fat:  8 / 4 Cholesterol:  36 / 18 Protein:  13 / 6.5 Calcium:  138 / 69 Sodium:   238 / 119

General Technical Details and Disclaimer:

Measurements are actual measurements used for calculation. If there are no values the nutritional numbers were simply too small.

I try to be accurate, but I do not guarantee it.  I use 'grams' as the unit of weight; with an approximate conversion to ounces.

My information comes from my own digital, computerized scale
and the USDA Nutrient Data Library: http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/