Easy Potato Salad

This summer, is going to be like most other in that I will be holding lots of gatherings at our new house. A lot of these gatherings are potluck, and I mostly get asked for my potato salad recipe. It’s a great dish for busy people and can be made a couple of days before the event. The binding ingredient is broth (chicken or vegetable), so it’s better for you than a mayo based potato salad if you are one of those who are watching you bathing suit figure. I got this recipe from well to be truthfull, I can remember where I got this one. Its been rewriten to index cards so many times we didn’t put on it were it came from. But I think your going to enjoy this potato salad recipe.

4 mid sized Russet potatoes

5 Tbsp juice from Kosher dill pickles

4 Tbsp finely chopped dill pickles

1/4 cup chopped parsley

1/2 cup chopped red onion

3 stalks celery, chopped

2 chopped scallions, including the greens

2 hard boiled eggs, chopped (optional)

1 medium carrot, finely chopped (optional)

1/2 red bell pepper, raw or roasted, chopped (optional)

1/2 cup mayonnaise

1 medium apple diced

3 teaspoons Dijon mustard

Sea salt and White pepper to taste

Directions are pretty strait forward

Bring a pot of water to boil. Add the whole potatoes with the skin on and simmer for 20 minutes. Remove the potatoes from pot and let them cool down enough so that you can handle them , but they are still warm. Remove skins if you want its up to you, and cut into 1 1/2 inch sized pieces.

Put the potatoes in to a large bowl and add the pickle juice. Next toss in the chopped pickles, parsley, onions, celery, scallions and, if using, the hard boiled egg, carrots, and red bell pepper.

In another small bowl, we wil mix mayonnaise and mustered. Last thing is to salt and pepper to taste and mix it in with the potatoes. My recommendation at this point is to let it set in the frig for a day if you can. Then when you take it out make some more of the mayo and musted dressing and add a little more because most of it will have be absorb over night. And there you have another great potato salad recipe.

Well we had a bunch of leftover baked potatoes the other day and had to make a desision as to what to do with them. It came down to two options the first being a hash brown dish and the second being a Baked Potato Salad dish that we have here on the site.

Well i figured i should go with the baked potato salad just to make sure that the recipe was still deserving of being here. It was and in the compromize for what to do with those leftover potatoes we decided to have the baked potato salad for breakfast. Now that is what im talking about.

Potato Salad is not just for picnics anymore.