perfect potato salad
(3 ratings)
The perfect potato salad is tangy but not sour, creamy but not gooey.This salad has 2 choices for the dressing you can choose your favorite.
(3 ratings)
yield
6 to 8
prep time
30 Min
cook time
30 Min
method
Refrigerate/Freeze
Ingredients For perfect potato salad
- SALAD
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5 mdpotatoes, scrubbed, cut in half-peel if you like
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1/4 cdiced onion
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1/2 csliced celery
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1/3 cdiced green bell pepper
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1/2 ccucumber, peeled and diced
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1/4 csliced radishes
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6 lghard boiled eggs,diced
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1 tspseasoned salt
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1/4 tsppepper
- DRESSING #1
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3 Tbspolive oil
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2 tspall purpose flour
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1/8 tspdry mustard
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1/2 cvinegar
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1 Tbspgranulated sugar
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1 dasheach,salt,pepper and paprika
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1 lgegg, separated
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3 Tbspdairy sour cream
- DRESSING #2
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1/4 cbottled italian-style salad dressing. pour over hot potatoes and gently stir to coat evenly. chill
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1 1/4 cmayonnaise
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1 Tbspchopped pimiento
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2 Tbspchopped ripe olives(black ones)
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1 Tbsplemon juice
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1/8 tspliquid hot sauce or to taste
How To Make perfect potato salad
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1Salad: Put potatoes in large pan with water to cover sprinkle with salt; cover pan and boil just until tender, about 25 minutes. Drain and cut into bite size into a large bowl.Add remaining salad ingredients to bowl; set aside.
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2Dressing#1: In a double-boiler top; combine oil, flour, mustard,vinegar, sugar ,salt. pepper and paprika. Cook and stir, over boiling water until thickened. In a small bowl, slightly beat egg yolk; stir in sour cream. Beat in a small amount of the hot vinegar mixture. Then sit egg yolk mixture into rest of hot liquid; cook stirring, over hot water 3 to 4 minutes, or until slightly thickened. Cool 10 minutes. Now beat egg whites with a rotary beater just until soft peaks form.Still using the beater, beat egg white into cooled dressing until well combined. Refrigerate until ready to use; then add cooled dressing and toss until well combined. Chill for 2 hours.
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3Dressing #2 When potatoes are drained,place the cut-up potatoes in a large bowl and pour the Italian Salad Dressing over potatoes and mix gently. Now,combine all remaining ingredients in a small bowl; mix well. Chill, covered until ready to use. Add to potato salad, toss well and chill for 12 hour.
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