Southern Potato Salad Recipe

Name: Southern Potato Salad Recipe
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 8 servings
Ingredients: 4 large russet potatoes (scrubbed and rinsed); 3 large eggs; 1/2 cup mayonnaise; 2 tbsp yellow mustard; 1/4 cup sweet relish; 1/3 cup dill relish; 1/4 cup cup chopped green onion (green and white parts); 1/4 cup diced celery; 2 tbsp dill pickle juice; 1 tsp cracked black pepper; 1 1/2 tsp onion powder; 1 tsp salt; 1 tsp garlic powder; paprika (optional)

4/10/16

How to make southern soul food style potato salad with eggs, relish, green onion, and celery!

Good old fashioned southern potato salad. Sounds good right? Well I figure I’d get on here and share my version for southern style potato salad before barbecue season hits next month. Besides, y’all have been requesting it for quite some time now. Believe it or not, I actually posted a potato salad recipe a few years ago. However, since then I have changed a couple of ingredients, and I’ve also changed a few of the preparation steps. Let me tell you how I make my southern style potato salad!

Let’s start off with the potatoes. I use regular russet potatoes for my potato salad. I know a lot of people think that russet potatoes are only good for baking, and mashing… But honey, that is far from true. My family and I have always used russet potatoes in our southern potato salad recipes, and we’ve never had a problem.

I use boiled eggs in my potato salad. I’m on of those people that won’t touch potato salad, unless it has eggs! A true southern & soul food style potato salad has eggs.. And lot’s of it!

Pickles or relish? It really depends on you. My mom has always used chopped dill pickles for her potato salad. I was taught to use pickles. However, as I got older, I started to use relish. I use a combination of sweet and dill relish, but you can use either or.

In order to have an amazing dish of southern potato salad, you must have an amazing dressing. Some people use miracle whip in there potato salad, but around here- that will get your feelings hurt! I use Best Foods Mayonnaise aka Hellmans as my dressing base. I then add regular yellow mustard, and a splash of pickle juice ( my secret ingredient…don’t tell nobody! Shhh!). After everything is mixed, I then add in the relish, seasoning, and mix. Then Voila.. My potato salad dressing is done!

Ooh, before I forget I also use a nice amount of onion. I use to use yellow onion ( sometimes I still do!) , but I really love using green onions in my southern style potato salad recipe. This is just my preference. You can certainly use yellow, white, or even red onion if you choose.

Once everything is mixed up, I refrigerate the potato salad until it’s nice and cold. It’s really simple. I usually serve this potato salad with barbecue dishes such as my Barbecue Oxtails, and even my Sweet & Smokey Pork Spare Ribs.

Here’s my video tutorial for this southern potato salad recipe

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