Creamy Potato Salad Recipe

Creamy Potato Salad Recipe for a summer braai or barbecue grill side dish. Easy healthy potato salad mustard, mayo dressing grandma made.

Creamy Potato Salad Recipe

The best and favorite potato salad always made for the Christmas season. My mother made this recipe for ages as a cold side dish for all meals during the holidays. Lunch or dinner was not without it. It was delicious and suited all types of meals hot or cold. This creamy potato salad keeps well refrigerated and covered or in a sealed container. A large bowl can be ready for any meal such as a braai or cold meats. Dressing made with mustard and mayonnaise and chopped boiled egg and chopped onions with salt and pepper.

Why put potatoes in cold water before boiling?

If you peel your potatoes before boiling them, then do soak them in cold water to remove the starch as this would make the potato cook more evenly. But with this recipe we boil the potato with the skins on for a more healthy potato and it would not help to soak them to remove the starch. The skin is peeled off of the potato once boiled to required tenderness. Before making the salad and dressing.

Is it better to make potato salad the night before?

As grandma would say it is better to make the potato salad the day before. As it gets even better if left to sit overnight in the fridge covered. So that it does not dry out. The seasoning and flavors combine more and give you a better tasting salad.

Can you overcook potatoes for potato salad?

Overcooked potatoes can make your salad turn into mash potato. As soon as they feel tender take them out. A to thick salad dressing can also leave your salad dry and bland, as it would not have soaked into the potato itself. Leaving it tasteless.

What is the best type of potato to use for potato salad?

Waxy potatoes are usually the best to use for potato salad, boiled with their skin on. As they hold their shape and these you do not have to be peeled and they have a smooth texture.

Should potatoes for salad be cooked whole?

Waxy potatoes and all purpose potatoes can be boiled whole with skins on. Starchy potatoes should always be cooked whole. Placing them in a pot in water that covers them by at least an inch and adding salt. Watching the water when boiling that it covers the potatoes. Check when tender then they are done. Peel and cut into decent size pieces for the salad.

Ingredients

1. potato
2. egg
3. onions
4. mustard
5. mayonnaise
6. garlic
7. salt and pepper

View the recipe attached for the amounts needed for guidance. All cooked on a stove top.

How to.

Boils some potatoes, as many as you need for a large or medium dish. Add salt, or garlic if preferred, but don’t over boil them. I prefer to boil the potatoes with the skins on. Then peel them when tender. But for a quick boil you can boil them skin less and cut.

Boil the eggs for at least 4 to 5 minutes for best boiled eggs.

Chop onions finally, and the red ones will give some color in the salad.

I used a plastic lunch tin with a little water and added the boiled eggs. Shake the eggs a little till they are almost pealed. Cut boiled eggs with slicer and turn and cut into smaller pieces.

How to boil an egg for Filling for a mixed salad idea —-> Boiled Eggs for Breakfast

Make the dressing by adding a teaspoon of mustard to mayonnaise. Drain the cut boiled potato and place in the bowl.

Mix the onion into the mayo mustard mix.

Then add to the hot potato, so that the potatoes will soak up the mayonnaise. Then the chopped eggs and fold in.

Fold all together without mashing the potato.

Leave to cool and keep covered in the fridge. Ready to eat.

Amazing tasty Creamy Potato Salad Recipe that late grandma used to make now this grandma makes it.

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