Okay, so homemade potato salad isn’t so over the top or different, but it is practical and better yet, it’s customizable to suit your own tastes.
My husband loves potato salad, specifically dill and red potato potato salad. We actually only found it in a few places and he really didn’t like those. He didn’t think they had enough dill in them.
So I set out to make my own.
This has several spices in it as well as real mayo. I think next time I make it though, I might exchange some of the mayo with sour cream,maybe about 1/2 cup, just to see what it’s like.
As I was making this it occurred to me I didn’t think to weigh the potatoes, but I did count them. We started out with 16 new red potatoes that were smallish to medium size.
We don’t peel our potatoes, so I just chopped them into small pieces before I boiled them. It would be easy enough to peel your potatoes if you don’t like the peel. You could also use another kind of potato if you wanted to. Maybe you have a preference.
In this recipe I used dijon mustard. You could use regular mustard or whatever suits your taste best.
I also used lemon juice instead of apple cider vinegar, which I think I’ll try out a little later. I’m curious to taste the difference.
I used the spices we like the most that I thought would suit this recipe, paprika, garlic and onion powders, dill of course, and salt and pepper. Pretty easy and straight foward.
I also found that mixing the mayo and the spices before adding to the potatoes made sure that everything was mixed evenly and actually made everything that much quicker. I just mixed them all together while the potatoes were cooking.
I have to say when I added the mayo to the potatoes I was a little nervous. As I mixed it up it seemed like there was way too much mayo mixture. But as it turned out after it cooled in the fridge for a while, it was just right. My husband like a creamier mix, so it was fine. Again, this is something you can adjust to your own liking.
I will say it does taste much better after sitting for several hours.
Homemade Potato Salad
Ingredients
Please think of these as suggested measurements. Suite them to your family’s taste.
- 2 Cups Mayo or salad dressing, your choice
- 1 Tsp. Paprika
- 1 Tsp. Garlic powder
- 1 Tsp. Onion powder
- 2 Tsp. Dill seed
- 1 Tsp. Salt
- 1 Tsp. Pepper
- 1/4 cup Dijon mustard
- 16 small to medium red potatoes, peeled or unpeeled, your choice.
Directions
Cut the potatoes in smaller pieces. I tried to get mine cut to about 1/2 pieces or smaller. I don’t want them to go to complete mush when you stir them up. We both like chunky potato salad.
Add them to your sauce pan and cover with water. You can see I didn’t get a big enough pan. I made a mess I had to clean up later. Boil your potatoes to fork tender.
While your potatoes boil, mix all your spices together and pour into your mayo and mix well.
Once the potatoes are done, drain well and put into your bowl. Pour your spiced mayo over your potatoes and mix well.
Put in the fridge to cool and to allow all the flavors to mingle.
When I was growing up, my mom made homemade sweet pickle potato salad all the time. I learned to do that as a matter of course. I’ve never measured anything I ever put into it, I just knew what was there.
This homemade potato salad was a little different. We didn’t use dill much for anything except for the canning mom did and I didn’t know much about that.
I’ve discovered I really kinda like it. So I planted some dill. I know it’s only an annual here where we live, but I’ll be planting it every year from now on, I think.
I hope you’ll give it a try. Mix it up and make it your own. Let me know what changes you made, I’d love to hear them.
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Until next time – Health, Wealth & Blessings ~ Tracey