How to Make Homemade Potato Salad

Homemade Potato Salad Recipe

I hope you like today's potato salad recipe. It's another one of my family's favorite side dishes. I now have many of my side dish recipes on the site. Once again, this is great for holidays, picnics or a picnic meal (just cold sides as a meal) or snacking. Make ahead for a refrigerated dish. Let's dig in!

Ingredients

salt
pepper
paprika
4 cups of diced potatoes
mayo
mustard (may be omitted if you don't want a sour potato salad)
3 to 4 boiled eggs
diced onion
dill pickle relish (may substitute with sweet relish)

Directions

Peel and dice 4 cups of potatoes.

Place them in a pot with water. Add salt.

Boil the potatoes until soft (test with a fork from time to time). Salt occasionally as they boil.

Boil 3 or 4 eggs while potatoes are boiling. I set a timer for 25 minutes as soon as I turn on the stove eye to start boiling.
Remove from stove eye after boiling is complete and peel the eggs. See my secret for perfectly peeled boiled eggs in my homemade deviled eggs post.
When soft enough, remove potatoes from stove eye, drain them and place them in a bowl. Hint: these will finish at about the same time as the eggs.

Add a little more salt to the potatoes.
Dice about half of an onion and add on top of the potatoes.

Add 3 or 4 teaspoons of pickle relish on top. Include some of the pickle juice in the spoon as well.
Dice 1 to 2 eggs and put them in the bowl. Hint: you'll need to keep 2 boiled eggs to put on top of the potato salad later.

Mix these ingredients together.

Add mayo for a smooth texture. I do not measure this, so see the picture below as a reference.

Mix well.

Add mustard if you're using mustard. Again, I do not measure this, so see the picture below as a reference. Add a little more mayo if you're not using mustard.

Mix well.
Add more mustard if you need to after a quick taste test.

Mix until all mustard is evenly spread throughout the dish. Otherwise, you'll have a mayo bottom as pictured below.

Slice the 2 remaining eggs lengthwise and place on top of the salad as shown below.

Add pepper.

Add paprika.

And you're finished! Refrigerate for several hours or overnight and serve! I would love to hear what you think after you make any of my recipes. Just drop me a line in the comments section below or via the Contact form on the right.

I hope you have a blessed weekend,

Patricia

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