Southern Potato Salad
Southern Potato Salad

Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, southern potato salad. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

I have been eating southern potato salad for sixty years and trying to perfect a recipe for at least forty. Season with salt and pepper as you will, it is the finest, home-style potato salad I have ever made. My kids, who hate onions, gobbled it down even with the red onions clearly visible.

Southern Potato Salad is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look fantastic. Southern Potato Salad is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have southern potato salad using 13 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Southern Potato Salad:
  1. Make ready 5 large Red potatoes
  2. Make ready 2 stock Celery chopped
  3. Make ready 1 small Onion chopped
  4. Prepare 1 small Green bell pepper chopped
  5. Take 4 Eggs
  6. Make ready 6 slice Bacon
  7. Make ready 1 Mayonnaise
  8. Take 1 Yellow or brown mustard
  9. Get 1 Cajun seasoning
  10. Make ready 1 Salt and pepper
  11. Take 1 dash Crab and shrimp boil seasoning
  12. Make ready 1 Green onion chopped
  13. Prepare 1 Sweet relish

How to Make Southern Potato Salad. Boil the potatoes in salted water (per the recipe below). Do not overcook them otherwise they will get mushy when you are stirring in the other ingredients. Mix the dressing ingredients in a small bowl.

Steps to make Southern Potato Salad:
  1. Bring water in large pot to a boil add a pinch of salt and dash of crab and shrimp boil seasoning. Wash and cube potatoes add to boiling water and cook until you can stick them with fork. (Should not be too soft or potatoes will turn mushy in salad) Add eggs gently, and immediately after you add potatoes.
  2. When potatoes are done drain DO NOT RINSE, place eggs in cool water and let potatoes cool. Finely chop celery, onions, green bell peppers, and bacon (save some bacon bits for top garnish) - put in large serving bowl. Add cooled potatoes (it's ok if they are still a little warm) sprinkle with Cajun seasoning, salt and pepper toss to coat evenly.
  3. Add mayonnaise, mustard, relish (to your preference of taste) toss gently to coat. Add sliced eggs toss once more. Garnish with green onions and bacon bits. Enjoy!
  4. Notes: You can use powder or liquid crab and shrimp boil seasoning. To add a little kick use spicy brown mustard and dash of paprika. This is also great served with Cajun Stew!

How much potato salad for a crowd? Southern Potato Salad is super creamy with a blend of mayonnaise and mustard, hard-boiled eggs, sweet onion, sweet pickle relish, and celery. It is a potluck must and the only recipe for potato salad you need. Southern Style Potato Salad Potato salad reminds me so much of my Mama. This recipe is basically the same as hers - simple, basic, southern potato salad.

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