The Best Summertime Potato Salad
This is the best summertime potato salad recipe. With it being so simple and easy to make, I guarantee it will be your favorite potato salad recipe to make! It certainly has been a crowd pleaser for me!
Summertime is approaching us, finally! Bring on the BBQ’s and Summer gatherings! Bring the best summertime potato salad to your next summer gathering, and your dish will be the star of the show.
One of my all time favorite BBQ sides is hands down.
It’s hard to find that certain potato salad that you absolutely love. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not fussy when it comes to potato salad, but sometimes its either lacking something, or it has an ingredient that you aren’t a fan of.
For me, I’m not a huge fan of crunchy things in my potato salad. And when I say “things”, I mean onions or celery.
A lot of potato salads that I’ve had have either onions or celery, but not this one!
This recipe has the most simplest ingredients. Potatoes (obviously), hard boiled eggs, Italian dressing, and lots of mayonnaise. No one ever said this is a healthy potato salad…
Without that crunch of onions or celery, it has this amazing smooth and creamy texture. Hold the crunch please!
When you boil your potatoes, I like to leave the skin on. Ive tried both ways, peeling them before boiling, and leaving the skin on when boiling. I think the potatoes have a better consistency when you leave the skin on, and then peel it off after they are done cooking.
When they are cooked, and cooled off, the skin pretty much comes right off. As you can see in the photo, the skin is already peeling off by itself.
When chopping up your hard boiled eggs, you don’t want to chop them too small. You want to have some good size pieces throughout the salad.
When it comes time for mixing all of the ingredients together, make sure to use your biggest mixing bowl you have. A five pound bag of potatoes makes a lot!
Do yourself a favor…after you’ve mixed everything together, take a separate spoon and have a little taste. Even though this potato salad tastes better chilled, it also tastes amazing when its still a little warm.
Enjoy!!!
Looking for a delicious appetizer to bring to a summer party? Check out my recipe for Grammys Patiere (baked macaroni) https://thehungrylyoness.com/recipe/grammys-pastiere-baked-macaroni/
The Best Summertime Potato Salad
Ingredients
- 5 LBS. yellow potatoes
- 5-6 Hard Boiled Eggs, peeled
- 1/2 Cup Zesty Italian Dressing
- 1 1/2 Cups Mayonnaise
- 1/2 TSP Salt
- Paprika, for garnish (optional)
- Parsley leaves for garnish (optional)
Instructions
- Fill a large pot with water. Add potatoes with skin in water. Bring to a boil, and boil until each potato is tender and cooked throughout. About 15-20 minutes. Each potato will take more or less time to cook, depending on size. I take tongs and a knife after 15 minutes and check the smaller ones first. If the knife slides through the middle easily, they are done.
- In the meantime, peel and dice your hard boiled eggs. Make sure to chop them up well, but not too small. Set aside.
- As your potatoes are done cooking, use tongs to move to a strainer to let them cool off.
- Once they are cooled off enough to handle, peel skins off of each potato. The skin should come off fairly easy.
- Cut your potatoes into medium size cubes and add to a large mixing bowl.
- In the same bowl as potatoes, add your mayo, Italian dressing, chopped up eggs and salt.
- Mix everything very well together.
- Let chill before serving.
- Enjoy!!
