This potato salad with a southern twist is perfect for a church supper or potluck. The pickles add extra sweetness. —Gene Pitts, Wilsonville, Alabama

Southern Potato Salad

potatoes,

hard-boiled large eggs, chopped

green onions

sweet pickles

mustard

celery seed

mayonnaise

Salt and pepper

Well my mother made it this way and added parsley and/or chives to it. She was a Connecticut Yankee so great chefs cook alike.

OMG people!  This is a great recipe.  If you want YOUR OWN recipe written, write YOUR OWN!  This is the authors recipe, so please, please don’t go on and on about how you changed it.

I have to laugh when I read reviews and see that the recipe has been changed and doesn't even resemble the recipe being reviewed any longer.  With that being said, I followed this recipe exactly and found it to be outstanding.  What I liked about it the most is that it didn't have "too much" of any one ingredient and appealed to a wide variety of eaters.  It wasn't  too pickley, too mustardy, too this or too that.  Just perfect!  It can, obviously, be tweaked to your families taste.  It was EASY, too!  This will be my new standard.  :)

Basically the same recipe I make that my mother taught me years ago.  Every time we went  to a gathering, she was asked to make the potato salad. I use bread and butter pickles and like it a little tangier so when I mix the mayo (we use Miralcle Whip) and mustard we add a little of the pickle juice and omit the celery seed. I also use sweet onion and add lots of chopped pickles.  I could eat this all day!!!

I have a recipe for potato salad that I've used for years. It's similar to this one except I use sweet relish,  thin sliced celery, and diced onions.  O mix my mayo/mustard/sweet relish together and add to the potato salad while the potatoes are still warm.  This allows the potatoes to absorb the flavor better.  Just my own take on it.

My Southern Grannie made a similar recipe but always made and served warm. It was the second to last thing she made behind her awesome buttermilk biscuits!  Of course served with crispy and moist fried chicken and black eye peas and butter beans. Yum!  Traditions carry on!

This is an outstanding potato salad.  I made it for a fundraising event and increased the recipe to feed 100 people!  Everyone raved about it.  I can't say enough about this potato salad.  The sweet pickles add great sweetness and crunch and the whole dish just works perfectly.  I did add a bit of sugar to the mix.  Keeping this one handy!

This is a great recipe!   Only change I made was adding a little chopped celery.  Perfect

Loved it good change from my usual version

I am very picky about potato salad and this is a winner!

This is the same recipe I grew up on and still my favorite.  Mom didn't add celery seed, however.  I made this recently and after cooking the potatoes and eggs I doused the potatoes (boiled with skins on)  in icy cold water like I did the eggs without thinking.  I was pleasantly amazed at how easy the skins just seemed to "pop" off the potatoes.  I will definitely make that mistake from now on.  We just love this salad but have some members of the family who prefer dill pickles so I make enough potatoes and eggs, etc. to make 2 salads and just change out the pickles.  That way we are all happy.  (Our family is large enough to justify doing this.)  This may be a Southern salad but for our family it was just "Southeast Portland, Oregon".

This was so easy and so good. I made it as per the recipe and it was yummy! Thank you for sharing!

Just like my grandma makes.  The only different step is that she puts it all together while the potatoes are still hot so that the flavor goes through.

This is the same yummy potato salad I learned from my Mom and have made all my life with a few differences. I use red onions instead of green. Also, Miracle Whip instead of mayo and a little more mustard. No celery seed. Also, I mix dressing ingredients together then add and mix.  Always received well by all. Asked for recipe. Be careful or this will be the only dish you're allowed to bring to any gathering. ;~)

This is exactly how I make it except I much prefer a kosher dill pickle and I add a little garlic powder and onion powder.

No green onions substituted yellow onions and added sweet relish instead of pickles.  Only my second time making potato salad and it was relish!

When I boil my potatoes I add the salt then so the potatoes will already be salted. I add a little more mustard, no celery seed and use yellow onions instead of the green onions. I also use Miracle Whip and sweet pickles (no relish) and will sometime add a few dill pickles to the sweet.  I only use 2-3 boiled eggs. 6 is too many.

Simple, straightforward potato salad.  Added some chopped celery for crunch. Sprinkled some caper powder on top for a little briny punch.  Delish!  (To make the caper powder, drain a 3 oz jar

Great Recipe!  I used Sweet - Hot pickles and spicy mustard.  This is the 3rd time I've made this potato salad it it just keeps getting better!!   Now one of my favorites!

southern potato salad

Prep Time: 30 minutes

Total: 30 minutes

Servings: 8

Cost: $3.18 /serving

Author : Taste of Home

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