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Mom's Danish Potato Salad
"A easy-to-make inexpensive potato salad. The homemade dressing for this is really good and I feel what makes it so good, and works equally well with macaroni salad. This is my mom's recipe, and her mom made it before her. I use about 6 hard-boiled eggs because I like my potato salad with more eggs. The prep and cook time is only a estimate, as I've never timed how long it takes to make this.
If you use mayo instead of Miracle Whip I'd suggest starting with only 1 T. sugar and adding more to taste as mayo is sweeter than Miracle Whip.
And of course please feel free to adapt this recipe ingredient-wise to your familie's preferences."
photo by Lori Mama
- Ready In:
- 40mins
- Ingredients:
- 13
- Serves:
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8
ingredients
- 1⁄4 cup vinegar
- 1⁄4 cup water
- 6 tablespoons sugar
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 1 dash pepper
- 1 teaspoon mustard
- 2 eggs, well beaten
- 1 cup salad dressing (I use Miracle Whip, but you can you mayo or anything you like)
- 4 -5 cups potatoes, cooked and cubed
- 3 hard-boiled eggs
- 1⁄4 cup celery, diced
- 2 tablespoons onions, diced
- 1⁄4 cup sweet pickle relish
directions
- Combine first 6 ingredients and bring to a boil.
- Gradually beat in well-beaten eggs.
- Cook, stirring constantly until slightly thickened.
- Remove from heat and add salad dressing.
- Mix well and pour over potato, egg, celery, onion and relish.
- Add more salt and pepper if desired.
- Refrigerate until well-chilled and enjoy.
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Reviews
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Hello teresa: congradulations! You have come up with a winner(even tho I am italian) I organized a cooking club and used this recipe it was a huge success, I also made extra sauce, and I did use 6 eggs. Thank you. This is a keeper. -
Teresa I made this for lunch today and it is wonderful! I made double the dressing to use the next time (soon). I added 2 green onions chopped., Easy do ahead recipe. Thank-you (of course it has to be good it's Danish!) -
OMG!!!I promise I will never make potato salad any other way!!!I have always wanted to try a cooked dressing and this one is great.I have done nothing but try new recipes since finding RECIPEZAAR.Thank you. -
Superb! Not your ordinary potato salad thats for sure. The dressing is really what makes this recipe and I had rave reviews from family with it. Will make this a lot over Summer. Thanks for posting. -
This is the best!! It has such a great dressing, we really loved it! Thanks!
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Tweaks
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This was my first attempt at making a homemade potato salad. I opted for this one because it was the first that I had all the ingredients for. I used yellow prepared mustard instead of mustard seed (wasn't sure which one the recipe needed, it wasn't specified.) End result was decent, everyone liked it.
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Very tasty, although it did indeed feel kind of weird cooking the sauce for a potato salad! Once combined, the potato salad seemed to have too much sauce, so I boiled up a few new potatoes that I had on hand and added them. I would say that I used more like 7 cups of cubed potatoes. I also subbed green onions for the onion, and also had the eggs "cook" on me when I first started combining the sauce. I just scooped out the larger chunks and kept on cooking!
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I've made this twice now, both times with wonderful success. I love this salad! For those who were like me -- thinking, "A potato salad recipe, who needs a recipe for potato salad? I know how to make potato salad!" -- please reconsider and try this. The first time out, I followed the recipe exactly; the second time I fine-tuned it to my preferences (which include adding chopped radishes, using green onion instead of regular onion, and adding way more chopped hard-boiled egg). Both times I used regular Hellmans mayo. As some reviewers have noted, this leans towards the sweet rather than the tangy, but I didn't find it overly sweet at all. This suits my tastes, I guess. I'll be making this for years to come; thanks to you and your mom for sharing!
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Teresa M
Zanesville, Ohio
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