Hello everybody, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, mama's southern potato salad. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Mama's Southern Potato Salad is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Mama's Southern Potato Salad is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
Mama Says: "Make sure you don't cube them too big or they won't cook through, and be sure to cut off any. Deviled eggs and potato salad the way mama always made it. Delicious recipe for those who don't already know how to make it. Sprinkling the still-warm potatoes with vinegar infuses them with more flavor than if you had added the vinegar to the dressing.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook mama's southern potato salad using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Mama's Southern Potato Salad:
- Get 4-6 Med to Large Russet potatoes or 8-10 Red potatoes (Using russets in the pictures)
- Get 4 Large Eggs (or more if you like, my family does, so I use 6, at least)
- Prepare 1 Med Sweet onion or 1 Bundle Green Onions (Optional) Using sweet onion for these pics
- Get 1 1/2 c. Mayonnaise (Maybe a little more or less to taste)
- Prepare 1/3 c. Sweet Relish
- Make ready 2 tbsp. (of each) Spicy, Honey Dijon, and Reg. Mustard
- Take 2 tbsp. Creole Seasoning (More or Less depending on how you like your spice level!! You can buy at the grocery store but I also have a homemade recipe for it as well, on my page)
- Get 1/4 c. Bacon Bits or 2-3 slices of bacon, fried and broken up
- Take 2-3 Roasted Garlic Cloves minced and chopped up (Easy, EASY recipe also available for Roasted Garlic on my page) or Couple tbsp Minced garlic, Garlic Salt or Powder will work too
- Get To Taste Salt and Pepper
Drain potatoes immediately and let them cool completely. Add (to the cooled potatoes) all other ingredients. Toss lightly until thoroughly mixed making sure not to mash the potatoes. This recipe is basically the same as hers - simple, basic, southern potato salad.
Instructions to make Mama's Southern Potato Salad:
- Get the potatoes in heavily salted water, begin to slowly boil, to be able to add eggs. Add eggs when boiling starts. Cover and let boil for another 10 - 15 min.
- While the boiling is going on, prepare the onions and precooked garlic (if that's what your using, this is the garlic in the pic) Chop or dice both very finely.
- This is the chopped onion.
- Once the boiling is finished. Drain the water off of the potatoes and eggs. Cool down easiest way possible…. for me I drain the hot water off and add cold water, then refrigerate while getting other ingredients together. If I'm in a hurry I do an ice bath, pull off the heat, drain, then add ice and cold, COLD water to it. Let it sit for a few min then begin the peeling process. This way the skins of the potatoes will peel straight off with your fingers, nothing else needed.
- Once potatoes are peeled, dice LARGELY!! Peel eggs and dice LARGELY, as well. When you mix everything it will come together great, so go BIGGER on cutting up the POTATOES N EGGS!! That's kinda the great thing about this recipe your cuts don't have to be perfect!! Go ahead and add garlic and seasoning (salt, pepper, creole, ect.) and stir it up!!
- Last step!! Mix it all together!!! Add the mustard, mayo, relish!! The longer you can let it sit, and marinate, it makes it better. I usually make mine the night before and that's the way my family likes it!!
Toss lightly until thoroughly mixed making sure not to mash the potatoes. This recipe is basically the same as hers - simple, basic, southern potato salad. Nothin' fancy or highfalutin' - just potatoes, eggs, onion, celery, a little bit of mustard, some pickle relish, salt & pepper. This classic Southern Style Potato Salad uses both mustard and mayonnaise for a super flavorful dressing that is rich, tangy, and creamy. People take their potato salad very seriously here in the south.
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