Southern
Ham Salad

Southern Ham Salad

The South is famous for smoked ham. It’s fried for breakfast, sliced for sandwiches and popular in this party favourite. It’s called a salad, but is really more of a dip or spread, perfect for serving alongside its retro cousins, pimento cheese dip (see video below) and devilled eggs, for an impressive start to a big family gathering like Thanksgiving. Southern ham salad is a great way to use up leftover Christmas ham and you can turn it into a salad by piling it on top of a bed of mixed green leaves. Try it with a glass of Electric Marsanne from Dirty Black Denim in Heathcote, Victoria. Leftovers keep for 4–5 days refrigerated.

Makes about 1½ cups

Ingredients
  • ½ cup whole-egg mayonnaise
  • 3 green onions, very finely chopped
  • 1 tablespoon very finely chopped flat-leaf parsley
  • 2 teaspoons whole-grain mustard
  • ½ teaspoon salt flakes, crushed
  • Good pinch ground cayenne pepper, more or less to taste
  • Several grinds black pepper
  • 200g smoked leg ham, chopped
  • Crackers and/or celery heart, for serving
Method
  1. Place mayonnaise, green onion, parsley, mustard, cayenne and pepper in a bowl and mix well.
  2. Stir through the ham, cover and refrigerate until ready to serve.
  3. Serve Southern ham salad with crackers and/or stalks of tender celery heart.

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