Classic Potato Salad is simple to make and a great dish to serve.  This recipe is for some good old fashioned potato salad. I know that  when a person has made a potato salad that they have spent a little extra time in the kitchen. 

Potato salad takes a little longer than most salads to make, but it sure is worth the work when you get a good potato salad. Sometimes people will spend a lot of time making a salad and they just do not taste right. I love this one and I am pretty sure that you will too.

What Ingredients Do I Need For Classic Potato Salad?

Here’s a list of ingredients you’ll need to make this salad (scroll down for the full recipe):

• Mayonnaise
• Vinegar
• Salt
• Garlic salt
• Sugar
• Pepper
• Celery
• Potatoes
• Eggs
• Onion

How Do I Make Classic Potato Salad?

Here’s the simple steps you’ll follow to make this salad (scroll down for the full recipe):

• Combine mayonnaise, vinegar, salts, sugar, and pepper.
• Stir in the celery, potatoes, eggs, and onion.
• Cover and chill for at least 1 hour.

My mother often made potato salad, after all I grew up on a farm in Idaho (home of the famous Idaho potato). We ate a lot of potatoes, and when summer came around, potato salad was a great way to serve up some of those potatoes.

What are the Best Potatoes for Classic Potato Salad?

• The best potatoes for potato salad are Yukon Gold or Red Potatoes that are able to hold their shape and keep their firm texture after they are cooked.
• I used Yukon Gold potatoes, but red potatoes would also work.

We also had hens that laid eggs for a while, but we mostly bought our eggs from other farmers who raised chickens. It is kind of funny now when I see my grandchildren with no clue as to where food originates. The grocery store is pretty much how far they think about it originating.

I grew up on a dairy farm and saw first hand the production of milk. We sold our milk to a company that pasteurized and homogenized the milk, but we actually drank raw milk. My dad liked cream and we actually used to let the cream rise to the top of the milk overnight and then skim the cream off of the top of the milk for my dad to eat on his cereal.

We drank the milk that the cream had been skimmed off of (which I now realize was skim milk). I really liked it when we went to the city to my grandparent’s home and drank their milk. They bought milk from the store and it was whole milk.

Years later, I realized that it wasn’t that the milk was raw milk that I didn’t like as much, but the fact that the milk was skim milk instead of whole milk. I still prefer whole milk to this day.

How Long Can Potato Salad Be Stored?

• As long as it is kept in an airtight container in the fridge, this classic potato salad will be fresh for up to 2-3 days.

Links to More Really Good Salads:

Chopped Greek Salad

Honey Mustard Chicken Salad

Southwestern Chicken Salad

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Yield: 10 - 12

Classic Potato Salad

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Classic Potato Salad is simple to make and a great dish to serve. This recipe is for some good old fashioned potato salad.

Prep Time 30 minutes

Total Time 30 minutes

Ingredients

• 1 cup mayonnaise
• 2 Tbsps. vinegar
• 1 1/4 tsps. salt
• 1/4 tsp. garlic salt
• 1 tsp. sugar
• 1/4 tsp. pepper
• 1 cup sliced celery
• 4 - 5 cups potatoes (peeled and cubed) (6 - 7 medium potatoes)
• 4 hard cooked eggs (cut with an egg slicer)
• 1/2 cup chopped onion

Instructions

1. Combine mayonnaise, vinegar, salts, sugar, and pepper.
2. Stir in the celery, potatoes, eggs, and onion.
3. Cover and chill for at least 1 hour.

Nutrition Information

Yield

10

Serving Size

1
Amount Per Serving Calories 504Total Fat 19gSaturated Fat 3gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 15gCholesterol 102mgSodium 553mgCarbohydrates 73gFiber 8gSugar 5gProtein 12g

This data was provided and calculated by Nutritionix