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My mom's potato salad
3 lbs potatoes- ukon gold or red skinned
1 cup sour cream
1 cup hellman's mayo
1 tsp salt- can add more if needed
1 tsp black pepper
1 Tbsp onion powder- can add more if needed
Wash and peel potatoes, cut into bute sized chunks- not too small, not too big- about the size of a ping pong ball.
place potatoes in cold salted water. Bring to a boil and cook until fork tender. Drain and place in a very big bowl. Add the next 5 ingredients and mix well. can be served right away or left in the fridge for an hour and served cold. I prefer it cold. I have also added a little fresh dill to this as well.
This is how my mom makes potato salad (to rave reviews). I joke that coming from Idaho, they don't let you out of the state without learning to make a decent potato salad.
4-5 medium russet potatoes -- peel, cut into ~6 pieces, boil until just done, then cube when cooled
One bunch of radishes, halved & sliced (5-6 radishes)
1 medium onion, chopped
2-3 celery stalks, chopped/sliced
2-3 hard boiled eggs, halved & sliced
1/4 - 1/3 cup chopped dill pickles
Sauce: (sorry for the loosey-goosie measurements)
2 parts mayo and 1 part Miracle Whip, thinned with a few tablespoons of milk -- whatever you need to cover and coat the above ingredients, or to desired consistency. She also adds a little bit of sugar to take the edge off of the Miracle Whip.
Then add a few tablespoons of dill-pickle juice, to give it "zing" along with
2-3 tablespoons mustard (like Gulden's)
2-3 teaspoons of horseradish, and 1 teaspoon of Frank's hot sauce
*The horseradish, hot sauce, and pickle juice give zip without making it hot
Mix all of your vegetables and eggs together in a large bowl, and slowly add the mayonnaise mixture, and add season salt as you go. It may work best if you do it in layers -- vegetables, mayo, salt, etc. Mix together well, season as needed and refrigerate.
Feel free to play around with the ratios until you get the taste you like. My grandmother doesn't use as much pickle juice or horseradish (which tastes bland too me), but many people like that flavor too.
Last edited by figmalt; 06-26-2012 at 11:41 AM..
Reason: forgot ingredient
I like lots of pickle relish in my potato salad and lots of celery and some Vidalia onion. I always pour pickle juice over warm potatoes for lots of flavor.
Olives in potato salad would be a real off to me. Also I like to liberally sprinkle paprika on the top before serving for color and a bit of flavor.
Also read somewhere recently best potato for boiling in water which won't break apart too much but I can't remember which one.
Recently saw a Cooks Country where they talked about how potatoes absorb too much water when you boil them and they cut potatoes in quarters and steamed them in veggie steamer. I think they were talking about making good mashed potatoes.
So I steamed some potatoes the same way for potato salad and it turned out great. My steamer basket did not have long legs so I wadded up tin foil to put under each leg so the potatoes did not sit in water.
I always make mine very simple. Potaotes, hard boiled eggs, celery, salt, pepper, and a little onion, mixed with a splash of rice vinegar and Kraft mayonnaise. If I'm feeling very daring, I might put in a teas. of Dijon mustard and a pinch of dill.
There is something about the combination of rice vinegar and Kraft mayo that seems to me to be the perfect potato salad flavor.
wondering if olive in potato salad is more of a northern thing and pickle relish more of a southern thing? never even heard of olives in potato salad. Actually I don't recall seeing too many olives in anything my southern mother ever fixed. Nobody in my family likes olives but we are a pickle crazy bunch. And it has to be Mt. Olive pickles made right here in N.C.
funny story. After WWII my Army officer Dad and my mother were moving back to Oklahoma from North Carolina where she lived while he was off to war. She went to the store to buy a case of Mt. Olive pickles to take with her. Daddy was furious saying "Good God woman, they have pickles in Oklahoma you know". To which she replied "But they don't have Mt. Olive pickles and I won't eat just any pickle." I wasn't even born them but that story was told a million times over the years. Every holiday or special dinner has a pretty dish of Mt. Olive Sweet Gherkins and I guess my own children will keep up the tradition.
I just wondered whether people might like to share their favourite potato salad recipes. It is summer here in Australia and I love potato salad so I thought I might ask people on here for their recipes
NB: I just realised I should have posted this in "Recipes".
Last edited by susankate; 01-27-2014 at 12:53 AM..
The ingredients in my favorite potato salad - red potatoes, Vidalia onions, dill relish, Miracle Whip, hard-boiled eggs, yellow mustard, bit of salt. Let it sit in the fridge overnight to let the flavors meld.
The ingredients in my favorite potato salad - red potatoes, Vidalia onions, dill relish, Miracle Whip, hard-boiled eggs, yellow mustard, bit of salt. Let it sit in the fridge overnight to let the flavors meld.
mmm - sounds nice. I had to look up Vidalia onions and it looks like we can't get them our here
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Your favourite potato salad recipes?
