My Mom's Potato Salad

Submitted by Cathi Allen

"This how my mom makes potato salad and whenever we go somewhere and have to take a dish I am asked to bring this. Thought I would pass it on."

 

• Ready In: 1hr 5mins
• Ingredients: 10
• Yields: 1 cup
• Serves: 16

ingredients

• 6 white potatoes or 6 red potatoes
• 1 red pepper
• 1 green pepper
• 1 Spanish onion (red onion)
• 4 eggs, boiled
• 2 cucumbers, remove the seeds (use the meat only)
• 591.47 ml Hellmanns Mayonnaise
• 78.78 ml Dijonnaise mustard (mom always used plain yellow ( i modified the recipe with the Dijonnaise) or 78.78 ml yellow mustard (mom always used plain yellow ( i modified the recipe with the Dijonnaise)
• 14.79 ml horseradish
• salt and pepper

directions

1. Boil potatoes and cut into cubes, cool.
2. Cut the vegetables and eggs up to whatever size you prefer.
3. Combine veggies with potatoes and toss.
4. Add mayo, mustard, horseradish, salt and pepper to taste. Stir.
5. Better after it has time to "sit".

Reviews

[Joann Sklarsky]

I always mix my dressing ingredients together first before adding to the entire dish. For instance mix the mayo, salt, pepper, horseradish together first in a small dish. If you are usign small pieces of onion and celery too then add that in as well, Then mix all of that with the potatoes. It spreads all of the dressing ingredients better throughout the salad. Tastes better faster. Although it is always better to let it "sit" a bit before serving this helps speed up that process.

 

[Kiwipom]

Found the vegetables overpowering and could not taste the potato. They made it too crunchy. Also thought that there was way too much dressing and it seemed to drown the salad.

 

[Piper Lee]

This is sooo good! I made this for my grandmother's funeral because my mom was making the "family recipe" and I didn't realize it and made a potato salad, too. So, I just quickly modified our recipe to yours and I love it! Thanks so much for sharing! Oh, and my version had celery in it because I'd already made it all up except for the dressing, cucumbers and green pepper, so it was just like yours, but with celery. Still totally yummy. :)

 

[thefrenchbroad]

A wower. I skipped one pepper and the eggs and cukes, used Dijon and added a lovely sprinkling of edible flowers to the top. Best ever. Yes -- it's the horseradish touch that adds that special zip and I don't like horseradish. No one could tell it was an ingredient.

 

[Lyssie71]

This potato salad was fantastic!! I love the addition of the horseradish and cucumber! I made as directed except I omitted the bell peppers (food allergy). The dijon mustard and horseradish weren't overpowering, but just sang backup. This is now my new potato salad. Thank you Cathi Allen! Edit: I have made this several times since my review. I have never used dijonnaise mustard - only Dijon or Spicy Brown. I have cut the mayo by 1/2 cup as the recipe measurement is simply too much. I sometimes add a touch more horseradish because that suits our tastes. Still my favorite potato salad by far! Thanks!