Potato Salad
I am always looking for the best potato salad recipe, and this recipe is one of the best ones I have tried. For a long time now I have been meaning to try to grate onions instead of chopping them into the salad, and doing that seems to have made a huge difference. Also, I made the grated onions part of the salad dressing, instead of adding them to potatoes. Grated onions give the dressing a very interesting flavor - it is not spicy, but very light, even though it has mayonnaise in it.
This potato salad is easy to make and takes a short time to prepare. The hardest part, by far, is grating the onion, because it makes you cry.
Here are a few more easy potato salad recipes: Greek Style Potato Salad Recipe, Potato Salad Recipes Without Mayonnaise, Potato Salad With Blue Cheese, Potato Salad With Eggs.
Tools You Will Need
Knife
Cutting Board
Pot for boiling potatoes
Grater
Silicone Spatula
Salad Bowl
Dinnerware Plates
Ingredients For Potato Salad:
2 pounds of potatoes
1.5 ribs of celery
0.5 tablespoons of parsley
Ingredients For Dressing for Potato Salad:
half of a small onion
2 tablespoons of mayonnaise
1 tablespoon of apple cider vinegar
0.5 teaspoons of Dijon mustard
salt
freshly ground pepper
How To Make Potato Salad:
Here is how to make potato salad.
Peel, cube and boil potatoes. Wait for potatoes to cool.
Make the potato salad dressing: Peel and grate the onion. Add mayonnaise, cider vinegar, Dijon mustard, salt and pepper to the onion and mix.
Put the potatoes in a salad bowl.
Pour the dressing on the potatoes and mix gently to combine. I find that the best tool to use to mix the potato salad and not break the potato pieces are silicone spatulas. I always break potatoes when I mix them with a metal spoon, but the silicone spatulas always seem to work. These are the same spatulas you would use to mix mousses, etc, so they are great for mixing your potato salad.
Dice celery. Chop parsley. Add celery and parsley to the salad, and again use the silicone spatula to mix the salad.
Serve the potato salad on dinner plates.
Oh, Biana, this sounds delicious. I think I’ve read that putting onions in the freezer for a little while keeps them from making you cry. Of course, you can always get a pair of science-class goggles.
Julie, thank you for the tip! I think it will be useful for our readers who need to grate/chop onions!
Wow! That’s a little bit of dressing for so many potatoes and it works? Great if it does. Less calories!
I think eggs are essential in potato salad…just about any salad for that matter.
This sounds like a great recipe and one that I will bring to the in-laws this weekend. But I did want to comment and say that I think I’m weird because I never ever cry when chopping or grating onions…I’ll call it a gift.
Barb, yes, there was enough dressing. Just make sure to mix the salad well and incorporate the dressing into the salad.
Biana Babinsky
Becki, please let me know how the salad comes out!
And I am jealous - I peel/chop/grate quite a lot of onions and they do make me cry sometimes. You have a gift
Biana Babinsky