ma huck's smoky potato salad

Camas, WA
Updated on Aug 7, 2019

This is the hands-down best potato salad out there. Everyone who tries it can't stop eating it. Even my friend who doesn't generally care for potato salad raves about this one! Try it, I dare you to not LOVE it!

Blue Ribbon Recipe

An excellent potato salad when you're looking to switch up your go-to recipe. It's creamy with a hint of smokiness. The potato salad has a light onion and mustard flavor with crisp peppered bacon and chopped hard-boiled eggs folded in. You're going to have a hard time not falling in love with this potato salad. It's so good!

prep time 1 Hr
cook time
method Stove Top
yield 10 serving(s)

Ingredients

  • 5 pounds russet potatoes
  • 1 jar Best Foods/Hellman's real mayonnaise, 30 oz.
  • 1/3 cup onion powder
  • - salt, to taste
  • 2 tablespoons liquid smoke flavoring
  • 2 tablespoons yellow mustard
  • 1 package pepper bacon
  • - hard boiled eggs

How To Make ma huck's smoky potato salad

  • Boiling the potatoes.
    Step 1
    Boil potatoes.
  • Eggs in a saucepan.
    Step 2
    In a separate saucepan, also boil one egg per potato until hard-cooked.
  • Frying bacon until crispy.
    Step 3
    While potatoes and eggs are cooking, cook bacon until crispy.
  • Bacon broken into pieces.
    Step 4
    Cool and break bacon into pieces.
  • Potatoes cut into chunks.
    Step 5
    Cool cooked potatoes, then peel. Cut up potatoes into chunks and place in a large bowl.
  • Cooling down the eggs.
    Step 6
    Cool eggs by running cold water over them.
  • Eggs chopped into small pieces.
    Step 7
    When cool enough to handle, peel eggs and use an egg slicer, to cut lengthwise, then turn egg, and cut crosswise to produce small chopped eggs.
  • Potatoes and eggs mixed together.
    Step 8
    Sprinkle potatoes and eggs with salt, and lightly mix. Set aside.
  • Mayonnaise, onion powder, liquid smoke, and yellow mustard in a bowl.
    Step 9
    In a mixing bowl, mix by hand: Mayonnaise (real mayo, NOT reduced fat), onion powder, liquid smoke, and yellow mustard. Set aside.
  • Bacon bits added to the potatoes.
    Step 10
    Mix bacon into potato and egg mixture.
  • Mayonnaise mixture added to the potatoes.
    Step 11
    Pour sauce over all and mix with a wooden spoon. Salt to taste if necessary.
  • Ingredients mixed together.
    Step 12
    Make sure the sauce is good and creamy. If the salad is too dry, add more mayo until creamy.
  • Salad ready to be chilled.
    Step 13
    Chill salad and serve. YUM!

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Category: Salads
Category: Potato Salads
Collection: Picnic Picks!
Collection: Summer Recipes
Keyword: #smoky
Keyword: #bacon
Keyword: #Potatoes
Culture: American
Ingredient: Potatoes
Method: Stove Top

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