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Best Ever Potato Salad!
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There’s nothing like a hot summer day and Potato Salad! This recipe is a basic recipe that you can build on and make your own. A creamy dressing, tender potatoes and chopped hard boiled eggs.
Fire up the grill and pair it with your favorite burgers, baked beans and more!
Who’s with me on the fact they love, love, love potato salad, but they are super duper picky about it? This version is a delicious classic recipe with the basics. It’s a great jumping off recipe that you can add your favorite add-ins too.
Don’t be intimidated by making this. It’s easier than you think it is. If you want an even easier way to make it try our famous Instant Pot version!
Ingredients
- Red potatoes
- Hard boiled eggs
- Miracle Whip
- Whipping Cream
- Prepared Yellow Mustard
- Sugar
- Salt
- Pepper
- White Vinegar
Variations!
- Traditional potato salad usually uses Mayonnaise instead of Miracle Whip. The Miracle Whip will give it a slightly sweeter taste. You can totally substitute Mayonnaise for the Miracle Whip if you prefer that.
- If you’d like onion, add in 1/2 c. sweet onion finely diced.
- Another great addition if you like pickle relish is adding in 1/2 c. sweet pickle relish.
- Many people like to add in 1 Tbsp celery seeds or 1 tsp celery salt. You can even finely dice a few stalks of celery if you want that crunch!
- I’ve also seen fresh chopped dill added to create another flavor profile.
- Another option is to roast your potatoes like we do in this recipe.
- Or, you could add bacon and ranch to it like we do in this one!
Steps to Prepare
- First thing is to peel and dice your potatoes! Then throw them in a stock pot and cover them with water. Bring it to a rapid boil and the boil over medium heat for 5-7 minutes or until potatoes are fork tender. DO NOT OVERCOOK! Drain and cool potatoes.
- While the potatoes are cooling whisk whipping cream for 1 minute then add Miracle Whip, mustard, sugar, salt, pepper and vinegar. Mix until combined.
- Pour the dressing mixture over the cooled potatoes.
- Please and dice three hard boiled eggs. Add to potatoes and stir to combine. Gently!!
- Refrigerate.
Expert Tips!
- Make sure you boil your potatoes until just tender, over tender potatoes will crumble when you mix everything together.
- We prefer using Yukon Gold potatoes, but red potatoes will work too. Just make sure your potatoes are starchy!
- Make it ahead of time! Did you know it tastes better then next day after it’s been chilled because the flavors come together? Perfect for party planning!
Like I previously mentioned, this is a classic, basic potato salad recipe. If you want to create different flavor profiles please feel free to add in the ingredients mentioned above to suite you taste buds. This is a great recipe to jump off from and make it your own!
Make it a Meal!
- Serve it with this delicious BBQ Chicken Marinade!
- The ultimate summer meal needs Baked Beans!
- Cool off with a sweet treat like this Cookie Dough Ice Cream!
Love it? I knew you would! Rate it, please!! It would be awesome if you’d give it a five-star rating below!
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Potato Salad
Tender potatoes and hard boiled eggs make this traditional potato salad the BEST.
Ingredients
- 5 lb red potatoes
- 6 hard boiled eggs
- 2 c. Miracle Whip
- 3/4 c. whipping cream
- 2 Tbsp prepared yellow mustard
- 1/4 c. sugar
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/8 tsp pepper
- 1/4 c. white vinegar
Instructions
- Peel and dice potatoes. Place in large stock pot and cover with water. Bring to rapid boil, turn down to medium heat and boil 5-7 minutes or until potatoes are tender. Drain potatoes and let cool.
- In a medium mixing bowl whisk whipping cream for 1 minute. Stir in Miracle Whip, mustard, sugar, salt, pepper and vinegar. Mix until combined.
- Pour mixture over cooled potatoes. Peel and dice three hard boiled eggs and add to potatoes. Mix until combined.
- Peel last three hard boiled eggs and slice and place on top of salad.
- Refrigerate until thoroughly cooled.
Notes
- Traditional potato salad usually uses Mayonnaise instead of Miracle Whip. The Miracle Whip will give it a slightly sweeter taste. You can totally substitute Mayonnaise for the Miracle Whip if you prefer that.
- If you’d like onion, add in 1/2 c. sweet onion finely diced.
- Another great addition if you like pickle relish is adding in 1/2 c. sweet pickle relish.
- Many people like to add in 1 Tbsp celery seeds or 1 tsp celery salt. You can even finely dice a few stalks of celery if you want that crunch!
- I’ve also seen fresh chopped dill added to create another flavor profile.
- Another option is to roast your potatoes like we do in this recipe.
- Or, you could add bacon and ranch to it like we do in this one!
- Make sure you boil your potatoes until just tender, over tender potatoes will crumble when you mix everything together.
- We prefer using Yukon Gold potatoes, but red potatoes will work too. Just make sure your potatoes are starchy!
- Make it ahead of time! Did you know it tastes better then next day after it’s been chilled because the flavors come together? Perfect for party planning!
Nutrition
Calories: 276kcalCarbohydrates: 41gProtein: 7gFat: 9gSaturated Fat: 4gCholesterol: 117mgSodium: 458mgPotassium: 925mgFiber: 4gSugar: 11gVitamin A: 390IUVitamin C: 16.3mgCalcium: 45mgIron: 1.8mg
Tried this recipe?Let us know how it was!
Sorry, my mother and grandmother always used Hellmann’s mayo and that’s what I use. I couldn’t even begin to make potato salad with Miracle Whip. Yuck! However, I did learn a new trick from you. We always boil the potatoes whole, cool and then cut them up. Next time I make potato salad I will peel and cut up the potatoes to boil.
Which is just fine! That’s why it’s fun… we can all learn something from each other 🙂
LOL, I needed this today! I use my grandma’s recipe, and I love it. The only difference is I use Hellman’s real mayo, not the miracle whip and whipping cream. I think I will try the change just to see the difference.
Glad I could provide some laughs 😉 Mayo is the typical ingredients I just grew up on the Miracle Whip and Whipping cream combo and got used to it!
my potato salad is just like yours except I use sweet pickle juice instead of vinegar and add green onions Old family recipe. So, I think yours is great!!!
Great additions! I think yours is great too 😉
I once went to a party and was asked to bring a salad. Every family (4 in total) brought potato salad and everyone was different. We laughed, heaped our plates and enjoyed every delicious mouthful and we all learned a new recipe!
And what a great attitude to have! Breath of fresh air. Now I want a potato salad party 😉
I have made many of your recipes, some as written, some changed to reflect my familys likes. Always great. If we didn’t have recipes to try (and personalize), we would all still be eating burnt meat from over a firepit. Keep doing what you do, sad that some people just want to complain.
P.S. Will be adding some whipping cream to my potato salad this weekend and I am sure it will be great. Thanks Happy Cooking!
Exactly! Recipes are just a guidance right? That’s my thoughts! Have a wonderful holiday weekend 🙂
Part of the fun is looking up new recipes, trying them, and changing them to suit you own taste or your family’s. I always enjoy your recipes. There are lot’s out there that use all kinds of ingredients that aren’t to my taste, and if I responded to each one and put them dowm, I would be on there forever!! Keep up the good work. 🙂
Exactly! Thanks for the positive attitude! 🙂
Tater Salad Drama! Nothing surprises me any more but this did make me smile and chuckle.
I have my own tiny little blog (honestly it is just an online cookbook so I wont lose my recipes-lol) and I title some things “Best Whatever”. Because it IS the best as far as I am concerned. There is no ONE best anything, it is all a matter of taste. What I think is best today, might easily be replaced tomorrow. I like your
recipes- I always try to make something my own, so I add and take away freely. You are a great blogger, as I am sure you know but it never hurts to hear praise when due.
And I dont think ANY of your recipes are “interesting” 😛 (credit to sande’s rude comment)
Right… at first (this started a long time ago) I was bit hurt, but now I just laugh. Thicker skin with the experience in blogging seems to happen! Thank you for your sweet words!
Julie, Julie, Julie,
This is hilarious!
Who knew?
I love your blog and look forward to reading every post!
Keep on trucking and I’ll keep reading.
Thank you.
dezi
Right??? Like it’s POTATO SALAD peeps! Never ever imagined this when I hit publish! Thanks for your sweet words!
One hint a 90 year old grandmother gave me was to save and use your sweet pickle juice in place of the vinegar! (also works in spinach salad dressing)
That is an awesome option if you like pickles Diana!
I am going to try this one. I have always just throwed whatever I could find in the fridge in mine. But so tired of fixing it that away and my taste for it has decreased. This way sounds so delicious.
Hope you enjoy it Linda!
Julie, Thank you for the opportunity to step out and make my first attempt to comment on a blog. Yes, I have also cooked for over 40 years, and your recipe is exactly like my grandmother’s. I alter mine and use white potatoes as I don’t like red. My sister also makes potato salad, and hers is different than mine. She does not like mine. Oh well, each to their own. It would be a very dull world if we all did things the exact same way. Folks, enjoy the diversity, and freedom of choice.
So glad you stopped by Jessie!!! Your potato salad sounds excellent. In my opinion… there’s room for everyone’s potato salad in life! That’s what makes it fun 🙂
I have to say this is the first time I have ever seen such nasty comments on a food blog. It’s a recipe, for Heaven’s sake. If you don’t like to try new recipes, then unsubscribe and continue to make your own recipes so that the rest of us who like to try new recipes can do so without reading all your vile comments.
I agree Mary 🙂
What type of vinegar did you use? White vinegar, red wine vinegar, apple cider vinegar? Definitely want to make this – haven’t found the “perfect” one yet. Thank you for all your postings, Julie! I’m new to your postings, but can’t wait to try so many of them!
Sande,
This is the second comment section I have found your negativity toward other bloggers recipes. I’m pretty sure you are the same “Sande” from a Great Grandmothers Italian spaghetti sauce recipe I came across the other day. You seem to have a knack for creating drama on blogs with all of your cooking experience and amazing recipes. Funny, they say that bullies put down others just to lift themselves up. But here is a thought. If you have amazing recipes that would win over all others, then please start your own food blog. Use the time you seem to devote to casting away others’ recipes and share your recipes. If that doesn’t appeal to you, then please unsubscribe from food blogs that you seem to think will never measure up to your stuff. Find a new hobby. Thank you from someone that actually appreciates the time and effort it takes to make and share these recipes. Keep it up Julie. 🙂
well said!
I am about to be turning 70 in a few months. I am a Grandmother & a Great Grandmother. I have made many a Potato Salad over the years. Very similar to JUlies Recipe with the exception of adding finely diced onions. However I have not heard of adding cream but I think it will only enhance my recipe, so will definitely try it. You negative Ladies ” Please remember Change is good. “Negativity is not.”
Just finished reading your recipe and the comments. Its a strange thing about food bloggers…they can’t accept any input or criticism and that’s why I stay away from them. But your Grandma’s Potato Salad caught my eye on Pinterest and here I landed.
I’ll zip my mouth on commenting on :your: potato salad, as their are as many different kinds of “Grandma’s Potato Salad” as there are opinions. And my grandmother always told me if you can’t say something nice, just say it’s interesting. Yours is interesting. But in a taste test between my grandmother’s, which I have been making for 56 years and yours I’m sure mine would win hands down. Sorry.
And my comment is not intended to be nasty…so no snarky remarks are needed. Every is entitled to their personal opinion and some people just have the balls to state it. Does this mean your potato salad is not good, no. It just doesn’t appeal to everyone and you shouldn’t be so insecure in how people voice their opinion.
I’m curious Sandy what exactly “caught your eye” about this recipe? Did it have a particular appeal that spoke to you? Or did you just see an outlet to spend your time and energy trying to bring someone else down?
Perhaps you should actually give the recipe a try before judging it so harshly and leaving negative comments. Your grandmother’s advice is good, but I’m sure it was intended for those actually seeking your input. Not a random recipe on the internet that you felt like putting down and telling the author how yours is surely better while calling her insecure.
Bravo!
🙂
She is so rude, Julie, that you simply just ignore her. I’ll bet ALL her recipes are “better ‘n yours” – whatcha think??? I’m sure she, and most of the cooks, don’t even follow a recipe the exact way it’s written, I know I don’t as I don’t always have all the ingredients so have to substitute. That’s what makes cooking so fun. Mean, nasty, rude…. Not a nice cook….
I’m “replying” to myself: I am going to a family picnic this weekend and will take YOUR salad as written, EXCEPT I will add some chopped sweet onion – I like the crunch it adds. I have all the ingredients except for Miracle Whip which I never use, only Best Foods Mayonnaise, but I intend to buy a pint of Miracle Whip and make your salad!! I’m 86, pushing 87 very hard, do not understand people who are so petty. It’s so easy to be NICE!!!
Oh you are to sweet Laverne! I hope you have a fabulous picnic and that crunch is good. I just have a really plain taste budded husband 😉
Love the recipe. That is what it is people…a recipe.
Haven’t tried whipped cream in mine…going to do that the next time!
Yes! A recipe, meant for guidance 😉 Thanks 🙂