Exceptional Potato Salad

Submitted by betteanderson

"This recipe is the result of endless attempts to recapture the taste of my mother's wonderful potato salad! It is basically your traditional potato salad with some added elegance."

 

• Ready In: 1hr 10mins
• Ingredients: 13
• Serves: 6-8

ingredients

• 5 cups cubed cooked potatoes
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoons sugar
• 1 teaspoon celery seed
• 2 teaspoons white wine vinegar
• 1⁄2 cup chopped onion
• 1 cup chopped celery
• 1⁄2 cup chopped sweet pickle
• 4 hard-boiled eggs, sliced
• 1 1⁄2 cups Miracle Whip (not mayonnaise)
• 2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
• fresh parsley (optional)
• paprika (optional)

directions

1. Sprinkle potatoes with the vinegar, salt, sugar and celery seed.
2. Add onion, celery and sweet pickle.
3. Mix dijon mustard and Miracle Whip salad dressing together well and gently mix into ingredients.
4. Fold in the hard-cooked sliced eggs.
5. Sprinkle top of salad very lightly with paprika, overlap three hard-boiled egg slices in a circle and place sprig of parsley in center Chill and serve.

Reviews

[Shellbelle]

WOW! This is exceptional potato salad, I really like the sugar in it it's something different I've never had in potato salad.

 

[cuisinebymae]

Very tasty potato salad. I especially liked the Dijon in this. All the flavours combined very well.