Potato Salad

[Pooh67_68]

Would you mind sharing your recipe, please.

 

[lovesmurfs]

Would you mind sharing your recipe, please.

I love this one! It's the only one I use -- very easy and you don't have to guess on the amount of potatoes:

Texas Ranch Potato Salad

Ingredients

1 (1 ounce) package ranch dressing mix
2 cups mayonnaise
3/4 cup chopped green onion
1 pound bacon slices
5 pounds unpeeled red potatoes

Directions

Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Add whole potatoes, and cook until tender, 15 to 20 minutes. Drain, run under cold water to cool, and chop into 1 inch cubes. Transfer to a large serving bowl, and refrigerate until completely chilled, about 2 hours.

In a small bowl, stir together the ranch dressing mix, mayonnaise and green onion. Cover, and refrigerate for about 2 hours to blend flavors.

Wrap bacon in paper towels and place on a plate. Cook in the microwave until crisp, about 15 minutes depending on the power of your microwave. Cool.
Stir the mayonnaise mixture into the bowl of potatoes. Crumble bacon into the bowl, and stir to distribute. Serve.

 

[Pooh67_68]

Sounds good, thank you.

 

[badgirlgiz]

Ingredients:
5lb.Potatoes
1 cucumber
4 hard boiled eggs
1 green pepper

Boil potatoes till tender then cool for about 2 hours along with the eggs. Cut up cucumbers and pepper then cut up the eggs and potatoes mix all together and add about 2 cups of Mircle whip and 3 to 4 tablespoons of mustard depending on how creamy you want it to be chill till serving.

 

[lizabu]

I don't always make it exactly the same but I peel and dice potatoes and cook until soft. Then drain. I add chopped dill pickle, celery, radishes and grated cheddar cheese. I will sometimes add sliced green onion too. I have also added shredded carrot when I felt like it. Add a generous amount of mayo and salt and pepper. Sometimes a little grainy mustard to give it a kick.

 

[KimR]

I use sour cream instead of mayonnaise along with mustard, pickle relish, celery, boiled eggs, and a chopped onion. I season with salt, pepper, garlic powder, and celery seed. Oh, and I also sprinke the potatoes with vinegar while they are still hot.

 

[Pooh67_68]

Thank you everyone, they all sound good.

 

[Christine]

I make a very standard, PLAIN potato salad and people always come up to me during a party and seem in awe of it. I think so many people try to "trick out" their potato salad that it ruins the simplicity of it.

This makes enough for a pot luck so reduce if you are just making it at home:

5 lb bag of red potatoes or Yukon Gold (do not use Russett)
5 hard boiled eggs
1.25 cups Hellman's Mayonnaise or other brand (do not use Miracle Whip)
2 Tbsp. Yellow Mustard
6 bread and butter pickle slices, chopped up
1/4 cup of the juice from the bread and butter pickle jar (shake to get some of the spices into the juice)
1 medium yellow or white onion, chopped finely
Salt and Pepper

Boil pototoes until cooked. You can do this anyway you like. My grandmother SWORE that they retained better flavor if the skins were left on and they were boiled in large chunks. I don't always have the time for that so I cut them in fourths and peel them first. Add about 1 Tbsp of salt the cooking water as potatoes love salt and this will give them more flavor.

Meanwhile, in a large measuring glass or small bowl, mix the mayo, mustard, and pickle juice to make your dressing.

After potatoes cook and cool a bit so you can handle them, cut them into bite sized pieces. I like my pieces a little large so I do not have some "mash" of a salad but it is your own preference. I also don't like the potatoes uniformly cubed but a variation of sizes.

Add potatoes to the bowl along with the chopped onion and salt and pepper to taste. Lightly toss.

Pour dressing over potatoes and mix well. After doing so, chop eggs and gently mix in. If you like, you can slice some of the eggs and add them as garnish on top.

 

[TheIncredibles!]

Mine is:
Potatoes, boiled, peeled then cut into cubes
Mayonnaise
Celery
onion
relish
salt
pepper
parsley

That's it. Everything to taste. It's very simple and I get quite a few compliments.

 

[Pooh67_68]

Christine only 3 people (and i am one of them) in my extended family eats potato salad so i figure plain or fancy wont matter. lol


So the pickle juice does not curdle the mayo? Also i have to agree with your grandma, the skin does add flavor so i would not peel.


Thank you for the recipe.

 

[kimmar067]

...I use basically the same recipe as most of you [above], but I only boil my red-skinned potatoes [with skins on, quartered] for about 10 minutes. Then I ROAST them on my BBQ grill!

 

[Pixiedust34]

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/The-Original-Potato-Salad-with-Real-Mayonnaise/Detail.aspx

This is simple and tastes great! I brought it to a potluck last night and my bowl was scraped empty. : )

I usually stick to the recipe, though I lean toward using red or white skinned potatoes and I don't peel those. If I use russett potatoes, I'll peel them.

 

[mamacatnv]

Potatos - cubed & peeled - boil the potatos in their skins until tender, then cool and they easily peel

chopped celery
sliced olives
Mayo - only BestFoods (Hellmans) no other brand, ever
salt
pepper
finely chopped red onion - a little goes a long way
squirt of mustard

My GreatGrandmothers 2 "secret" ingredients
Dill pickle juice
Lawrys seasoning salt

I mix all the wet ingredients together until it tastes good to me then I add it to the taters, celery, olives and onion and combine. Chill overnight to allow flavors to meld, add more wet sauce if needed and serve

 

[Christine]

Christine only 3 people (and i am one of them) in my extended family eats potato salad so i figure plain or fancy wont matter. lol


So the pickle juice does not curdle the mayo? Also i have to agree with your grandma, the skin does add flavor so i would not peel.


Thank you for the recipe.

No, it doesn't curdle it at all.

 

[Mandychelle79]

I love this one! It's the only one I use -- very easy and you don't have to guess on the amount of potatoes:

I dont even like potato salad and that one looks AWESOME.

 

[Pooh67_68]

Thanks again everyone.



kimmar - hum roasted potatoes, first i ever heard of that, interesting.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

I peel my potatoes because my mom chokes on the skins and I prefer it that way.

Potatoes, peel, boil, cool, quartered
6 or more hard boiled eggs, cooled
Minced onion
Chopped celery
Mayo
Durkees
Mustard
Salt to taste

Take yolks from eggs, mash

Add your favorite Mayo, about 3ish cups maybe? (mine is Kraft), Durkees, mustard dash, salt dash

Add to potatoes, add celery, cut up whites to eggs, mix and chill. COLD potato salad is best so make it ahead of time.

Oh and here is my "special ingredient"... "Durkees"

 

[njmom47]

I peel and dice the potatoes and hard-boil a few eggs.
I only add mayo, mustard, and salt. I finely chop the eggs and some celery.
Top with paprika.

 

[tasha99]

Russet Potatoes (peeled, boiled and then diced into small pieces)
finely minced onion
thinly sliced green onion tops or chives
crisply fried bacon, crumbled up (no fake bacon bits)
salt
pepper
mayonnaise (1/3 of the mayo/sour cream ratio)
sour cream (2/3 of the mayo/ sour cream ratio)

I just add to taste, but we tend to like lots of bacon. Yeah, my family prefers baked potatoes to potato salad, so I adjusted the traditional potato salad a bit.

 

[jordansmomma]

Ok here is mine, but I don't really measure anything.
Potato Salad

potatoes (sometimes red, sometimes not)
usually 6 eggs diced
sliced olives
diced green onions
10 pc of pre cooked bacon crumbled
diced sweet pickles (sometimes)
salt, pepper, garlic salt or powder
Best foods mayo
a few squirts of mustard

mix it all together & cool until ready to eat.