Best 15 Southern Potato Salad Recipes

SOUTHERN DILL POTATO SALAD

Steps:

• Place the potatoes in a large pot, cover them with water, and bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce the heat to medium-low, and simmer until the potatoes are cooked through but still firm, about 20 minutes. Remove from the water, let cool, and cut the potatoes into chunks. Set the potatoes aside.
• In a bowl, stir together the sour cream, mayonnaise, apple cider vinegar, Dijon mustard, onion, celery, celery salt, and salt and pepper until well mixed.
• Place the potatoes and eggs in a large salad bowl, and sprinkle with dried dill. Pour the dressing over the potatoes and eggs, and mix lightly. Cover and refrigerate the salad for at least 30 minutes. Serve cold.

SOUTHERN POTATO SALAD

Steps:

• Place potatoes in a large saucepan; add water to cover. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cook, uncovered, until tender, 10-15 minutes. Drain; refrigerate until cold. Add eggs, onions and pickles; toss well. Stir in mustard, celery seed and mayonnaise. Season with salt and pepper; mix well. Refrigerate until serving.

SOUTHERN MASHED POTATO SALAD

Steps:

• 1. Boil potatoes until tender (not mushy), mash potatoes the same as you would for regular mashed potatoes. A little lumpy is okay! I like the potatoes the same consistency that I do my regular mashed potatoes.
• 2. In a separate pot, boil eggs at the same time as you are boiling potatoes. For approximately the same length of time! Cool, peel and set aside!
• 3. Add, butter (little milk if desired) add & blend all other ingredients except boiled eggs. Dice eggs and fold into mashed potato mix. Salt and Pepper to desired taste! Enjoy!

HOPPIN' JOHN'S SOUTHERN POTATO SALAD

Steps:

• Cut potatoes in half if large, put in a pot and add enough lightly salted water to cover them by 2 inches. Bring to a boil, and cook, uncovered, for about 15 minutes, until tender. Drain. Peel if desired, and cut into 1 1/2-inch wedges.
• In a large serving bowl, mix the potato pieces with the celery, scallions and eggs.
• In a small bowl, mix the mayonnaise, mustard, pickle cubes and juice; toss with the potatoes. Season to taste with salt and peppers. Sprinkle with chopped herbs and dust with paprika. Serve slightly chilled.

SOUTHERN SWEET POTATO SALAD

Steps:

• Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add sweet potato cubes. Boil about 5-7 minutes just until tender but firm enough to hold their shape. Drain into a colander and rinse under cold water. Drain well. In a large bowl gently toss sweet potatoes with celery, green onions, raisins, pineapple and pecans.
• In medium bowl, mix together mayonnaise, sour cream, vinegar, honey, salt and pepper. Gently toss with sweet potato mixture. Cover and refrigerate until serving time.

SOUTHERN STYLE POTATO SALAD

Steps:

• 1. Boil your potatoes until just done and able to be poked through easily with a fork.
• 2. Drain, set aside to cool.
• 3. Once cooled enough to handle, cube the potatoes and put them in a large bowl.
• 4. Hard boil your eggs; set aside to cool completely.
• 5. While the eggs are boiling, fry up your bacon and set it aside to cool. De-grease on some paper towels.
• 6. In the bowl with potatoes, combine the mayonnaise, mustard, salt, sugar, black pepper, and apple cider vinegar.
• 7. Being careful as not to stir the salad too much.
• 8. Add crumbled bacon.
• 9. Roughly chop your hard boiled eggs and add them to bowl.
• 10. Add chopped celery.
• 11. Sriracha should be the LAST thing added. Once all ingredients are in the bowl, give the salad a few good folds to combine and coat potatoes.
• 12. Finish off with some paprika.
• 13. Cover. Put into the fridge. Chill or let sit overnight. (Overnight is always better. The flavors can combine better that way.) Serve chilled or at room temperature.

SOUTHERN FRIED POTATO SALAD

Steps:

• Fry the potatoes (in batches if necessary) in hot oil until brown and crispy. Drain on paper towels and season with salt and pepper.
• Combine remaining ingredients in large bowl.
• Gently fold in warm potatoes and coat with mixture, being careful not to break the potatoes.
• Serve immediately.

SOUTHERN POTATO SALAD

Steps:

• Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add potatoes and cook until tender but still firm, about 15 minutes; drain and chop.
• Place eggs in a saucepan and cover with cold water. Bring water to a boil; cover, remove from heat, and let eggs stand in hot water for 10 to 12 minutes. Remove from hot water; peel and chop.
• In a large bowl, combine the potatoes, eggs, celery, sweet relish, garlic, mustard, mayonnaise and salt and pepper. Gently mix together and serve warm.

SOUTHERN STYLE POTATO SALAD

Steps:

• 1. Mix all ingredients together and lightly tossed until thoroughly combined. Be careful not to break up potatoes. Chill for 2 hours or more before servings.

SOUTHERN SWEET POTATO SALAD

Steps:

• Cook sweet potatoes in boiling salted water until tender, about 5-8 minutes.
• Drain potatoes and toss with lemon juice.
• In large bowl, combine mayonnaise, orange juice, honey, orange zest, ginger, salt, and nutmeg.
• Add potatoes, celery, and dates, tossing to coat.
• Cover and chill.
• Before serving, gently stir in pecans.
• Spoon salad onto lettuce-lined platter.
• Arrange mandarin orange segments around salad.

SOUTHERN SWEET POTATO SALAD

Steps:

• In a medium saucepan, cook sweet potatoes in boiling salted water just until tender, about 5-8 minutes (do not overcook). Drain; toss with the lemon juice. , In a large bowl, combine mayonnaise, orange juice, honey, orange zest, ginger, salt and nutmeg. Add the warm potatoes, celery and dates. Toss to coat well. Cover and chill. , Before serving, gently stir in pecans. Spoon salad onto a lettuce-lined platter. Arrange oranges around salad.

CONNIE'S SOUTHERN POTATO SALAD

Steps:

• 1. Put all ingredients in a large bowl.
• 2. If you need more moisture, add a little bit more mayo, mustard and or pickle juice.
• 3. Mix lightly to combine.

SOUTHERN POTATO SALAD

Steps:

• Cook potatoes in covered pot with boiling water 40 minutes or until tender; drain and cool.
• Peel potatoes and cut into small pieces.
• Separate egg whites from the yolks. Chop egg whites.
• In a large bowl, stir together potato, egg whites, 1/2 tsp salt and green onions.
• Using a fork, mash the yolks in a small bowl; add in mayo, pickle relish, mustard, and pepper; stirring until well blended.
• Gently stir yolk mixture into potato mixture; adjust seasoning to taste with salt and pepper.
• Cover and chill 2 hours (it is even better if you can chill this overnight and serve the next day).
• Sprinkle with Paprika before serving.

SOUTHERN POTATO SALAD

Steps:

• 1. 1 after peeling and dicing potatoes place them in a large pot to boil until tender. 2 drain the potatoes, add pickles, onions, and eggs then mix in mayo until its the desired consistancy. 3 mix in mustard. 4 salt and pepper to taste

SOUTHERN POTATO SALAD

Steps:

• 1. Put potatoes in a pot and cover with water. Add the 2 teaspoons salt to the water. Boil the potatoes until tender when pierced with a fork but doesn't fall apart. Drain.
• 2. In a large bowl, combine the mayo, mustard, sweet pickle relish, chopped onion, boiled eggs, black pepper, and salt to taste. Fold this into the potatoes.
• 3. Put into a nice serving bowl. Sprinkle with paprika and stud the top all over the pimento stuffed green olives.
• 4. You can serve this right away while it is still warm but I personally like cold potato salad.
• 5. Refrigerate.