Spanish-y salad

• New potatoes in 3 cm chunks
• Half onion, sliced, preferably Spanish
• Clove of garlic, very finely chopped
• 1-2 fresh tomatoes, coarsely chopped
• Tin of tuna (if you're not that vegetarian) and/or
• Small tin of butter beans
• 4 tablespoons olive oil
• Ground black pepper
• Lemon juice

• Stoned green olives
• Anchovies
• Cooked green beans
• Hard boiled egg
• Small pieces of cooked cod or hake instead of tuna

Boil the potatoes. Meanwhile, fry the onion gently in the oil until soft but not at all brown. Then mix in a bowl the chopped (raw) garlic, the onions and their oil and some lemon juice and ground pepper. Use this as a dressing for the potatoes, tomatoes and whatever else is going in. Very nice. Can be eaten warm if you can't be bothered to wait for it to cool. Don't forget the raw garlic - that's what makes it a meal to remember.

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