Step-by-Step Guide to Make Favorite Mama's Southern Potato Salad

Mama's Southern Potato Salad. Remove potatoes from hot water and set aside until cool enough to handle, but still warm. Peel and cut potatoes into cubes and place into a large serving bowl. Add salt, pepper, pimentos and pickles to the potatoes.

For a more tart potato salad recipe, swap out some of the mayo for sour cream. Or you can add a little vinegar or even pickle juice. How to Make Mama's Potato Salad.

Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, mama's southern potato salad. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Remove potatoes from hot water and set aside until cool enough to handle, but still warm. Peel and cut potatoes into cubes and place into a large serving bowl. Add salt, pepper, pimentos and pickles to the potatoes.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook 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. Get 4-6 of Med to Large Russet potatoes or 8-10 Red potatoes (Using russets in the pictures).
2. Make ready 4 of Large Eggs (or more if you like, my family does, so I use 6, at least).
3. Make ready 1 of Med Sweet onion or 1 Bundle Green Onions (Optional) Using sweet onion for these pics.
4. Prepare 1 1/2 c. of Mayonnaise (Maybe a little more or less to taste).
5. Take 1/3 c. of Sweet Relish.
6. Prepare 2 tbsp. of (of each) Spicy, Honey Dijon, and Reg. Mustard.
7. Take 2 tbsp. of 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. Prepare 1/4 c. of Bacon Bits or 2-3 slices of bacon, fried and broken up.
9. Make ready 2-3 of 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. Get To Taste of Salt and Pepper.

Potato salad is one of the easiest side dishes you can make for big payoff when it's done. Southern Potato Salad, family gatherings are not the same without Mama's potato salad, cubed potatoes, chopped onions, chopped dill pickles, chopped boiled eggs, and mayonnaise with a little mustard. The secret to my Mom's potato salad is in how you cook the potatoes. Mama's a handful, but she knows what she's doing in the kitchen.

Instructions 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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