Mama's Southern Potato Salad
Mama's Southern Potato Salad

Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, mama's southern potato salad. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Mama's Southern Potato Salad is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look fantastic. Mama's Southern Potato Salad is something which I have loved my entire life.

After boiling the potatoes and eggs, it's all about assembling the ingredients and adding a touch of garnish. First, cut the potatoes into bite-size pieces and boil them in a pot of water. Peel and cut potatoes into cubes and place into a large serving bowl. Add salt, pepper, pimentos and pickles to the potatoes.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have mama's southern potato salad using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Mama's Southern Potato Salad:
  1. Take Med to Large Russet potatoes or 8-10 Red potatoes (Using russets in the pictures)
  2. Take Large Eggs (or more if you like, my family does, so I use 6, at least)
  3. Take Med Sweet onion or 1 Bundle Green Onions (Optional) Using sweet onion for these pics
  4. Get Mayonnaise (Maybe a little more or less to taste)
  5. Make ready Sweet Relish
  6. Get (of each) Spicy, Honey Dijon, and Reg. Mustard
  7. Make ready Creole Seasoning (More or Less depending on how you like your spice level!! You can buy at the grocery store but I also have a homemade recipe for it as well, on my page)
  8. Make ready Bacon Bits or 2-3 slices of bacon, fried and broken up
  9. Make ready Roasted Garlic Cloves minced and chopped up (Easy, EASY recipe also available for Roasted Garlic on my page) or Couple tbsp Minced garlic, Garlic Salt or Powder will work too
  10. Take Salt and Pepper

She always said you have to cook them with a tablespoon of salt in the water. Mama's a handful, but she knows what she's doing in the kitchen. And when it comes to classic Southern potato salad, she's the queen. None of that wishy-washy "some prefer to add celery while others do not" nonsense.

Steps to make Mama's Southern Potato Salad:
  1. Get the potatoes in heavily salted water, begin to slowly boil, to be able to add eggs. Add eggs when boiling starts. Cover and let boil for another 10 - 15 min.
  2. While the boiling is going on, prepare the onions and precooked garlic (if that's what your using, this is the garlic in the pic) Chop or dice both very finely.
  3. This is the chopped onion.
  4. Once the boiling is finished. Drain the water off of the potatoes and eggs. Cool down easiest way possible…. for me I drain the hot water off and add cold water, then refrigerate while getting other ingredients together. If I'm in a hurry I do an ice bath, pull off the heat, drain, then add ice and cold, COLD water to it. Let it sit for a few min then begin the peeling process. This way the skins of the potatoes will peel straight off with your fingers, nothing else needed.
  5. Once potatoes are peeled, dice LARGELY!! Peel eggs and dice LARGELY, as well. When you mix everything it will come together great, so go BIGGER on cutting up the POTATOES N EGGS!! That's kinda the great thing about this recipe your cuts don't have to be perfect!! Go ahead and add garlic and seasoning (salt, pepper, creole, ect.) and stir it up!!
  6. Last step!! Mix it all together!!! Add the mustard, mayo, relish!! The longer you can let it sit, and marinate, it makes it better. I usually make mine the night before and that's the way my family likes it!!

And when it comes to classic Southern potato salad, she's the queen. None of that wishy-washy "some prefer to add celery while others do not" nonsense. There's no celery in Mama's classic recipe for potato salad. Put potatoes into a large pot and cover with cold water. Bring to a boil, cover and reduce heat to medium low boiling gently until fork tender.

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