Instant Potato Salad
photo by PrimQuilter
- Ready In:
- 4hrs 45mins
- Ingredients:
- 13
- Serves:
-
10
ingredients
- 3 cups instant potato flakes
- hot water
- 2 teaspoons prepared mustard
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄2 cup dill pickle cubes, chopped
- 1 teaspoon celery salt
- 6 eggs, hard-boiled and chopped
- 1⁄2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 4 -6 stalks chopped celery (I sometimes add 1 can chopped water chestnuts in place of celery, for the crunch) (optional)
- 1 teaspoon dill weed
- 1 small onion, chopped
- 2 cups mayonnaise
- 1⁄2 cup chopped olive
directions
- In a large bowl, mix potato flakes, mustard, salt, pickles and celery salt.
- Add enough hot water to mixture--about two cups--to mix the ingredients.
- Mixture should be fairly stiff.
- Cover and let stand about five minutes.
- Add eggs, garlic powder, celery (if using), dill weed, onion, mayonnaise and chopped olives.
- Mix well and chill three or more hours.
- Keep unused portion in refrigerator; will stay fresh up to a week if covered and chilled.
- NOTE: Cooking time refers primarily to chilling time.
Reviews
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I was unsure of this at first, but I had to try it.....after all, it beats cutting and boiling potatoes! Imade it for a picnic, so I doubled the recipe. It turned out great! I didn't have olives, but I added some chopped carrots for color. Everyone at the picnic enjoyed it. I will make this again. Thanx for sharing.
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Gwanny Hill
Charlotte, NC
I am a retired RN living in Charlotte, NC. My husband died in 2003 on July 4 so my only housemates are my two dogs, FuTu and Little Bit. My 3 children and their families all live within 45 minutes of me. I love to cook, and often send meals out to sick and elderly or families with new babies. I collect cookbooks, have about 500 but still love to check 'ZAAR daily for new ideas and recipes. The cookbook I use most often is called "Recipes and Remembrances" and has 1000 recipes compiled by my Sunday School class from church members--in compiling the recipes, each committee member included their on favorites so that we could use this as our main source for cooking.