There are so many variations possible when making a potato salad. But for me the base ingredients have to be potatoes, tomatoes, cooked onions and bacon. Then the sky’s the limit! You can add mushrooms (cooked or not), peppers (cooked or not), celery, capers, avocado, different kinds of herbs, or whatever else you’ve got to hand or fancy.
I used my home-made mayonnaise and home-made vinaigrette for this dish. Videos of these recipes are available for subscribers to this blog – just enter your details in the left hand column or in the box at the bottom of this blog post to register and get these recipes and much more.
Potato salad with a twist
One of the beauties about this potato salad recipe is that it’s quick, easy and cheap so a winner for most people. Whilst it isn’t the healthiest, due to the bacon, it does contain a couple of veggies and you can always add more in or remove the bacon to make it healthier.
Potato salad with a twist
Ingredients:
- Potatoes - 1.2kg (new potatoes)
- Mushrooms - 200g (button)
- Onions - 2
- Bacon - 250g (lardons, streaky or back, smoked)
- Celery - 1 stick
- Tomatoes - 4
- Tarragon - 1/2 bunch
- Olive oil - 2 tbsp
- Mayonnaise - 4 tbsp (heaped)
- Vinaigrette - 4 tbsp
Instructions:
Summary:
- Cut your potatoes into quarters and either steam them in a pressure cooker for 8 mn or boil them for 15 mn
- Slice your onions and bacon and brown them with the olive oil in a frying pan for 5 mn on a high heat
- Slice your mushrooms, add them to the frying pan and brown everything for 5 mn more
- Cut the potatoes into smaller 2-3cm cubes, cut the tomatoes and put them into a big salad bowl
- Add the browned ingredients from the frying pan to the salad bowl
- Add the sliced celery stick and tarragon leaves
- Add the mayo and vinaigrette and stir well
Put your frying pan onto a medium heat. Get your pressure cooker or saucepan ready on a high heat. Get all your ingredients ready.
Wash and scrub your potatoes - I keep the skin on to maintain all the nutrients, but you can peel them if you prefer. Cut them into quarters and either steam them in a pressure cooker for 8 minutes or boil them for 15 minutes in a saucepan.
While your potatoes are cooking slice your onions and your bacon. Put them in the frying pan with the olive oil and brown them for 5 minutes on a high heat stirring only once or twice.
Wash and slice your mushrooms, and add them to the frying pan. Brown everything for 5 more minutes.
Once the potatoes are cooked and have cooled down a bit cut them some more, into 2-3 cm cubes. Put them in a big salad bowl. Cut the tomatoes (any way you want) and add them to the bowl. Add the browned ingredients from the frying pan to the salad bowl.
Slice the celery stick and add to the bowl. Add the tarragon leaves.
Finally add the home-made mayo and home-made vinaigrette, stir well whilst trying not to turn the potatoes into a mash.
Options:
- You can replace the mayo with some crème fraiche and horseradish sauce if you prefer.
- You can also replace the mayo with a home-made aïoli mayonnaise (garlic mayo).
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Anything with potatoes in it is a winner. Anything with bacon takes it to new heights! How French people don’t use bacon I don’t know. I know there’s lardons but that you can’t find back or streaky bacon anywhere is a crying shame.
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Tell me about it! I love my potatoes, I do 🙂 I missed bacon so much when we lived in France – you can’t beat a good bacon butty! Although I now miss the cheap lardons that we used to cook with in France – they are far easier for some dishes, but so expensive in the UK!
I live in the land of potatoes so this is a great extra recipe to have! It sounds delicious! 🙂
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Ooh, that sounds like my ideal place to live – the land of potatoes 🙂
I always use onions or chives but never thought of tomatoes or bacon. Looks lovely
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Ben is very into his experimenting with potato salads 😉
I can already smell and taste this in my head! Awesome twist =) #TastyTuesdays
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It’s such a yummy take on the traditional potato salad 🙂
Yum! I absolutely love salad and my favourite is salade Vosgienne. I could eat it a couple of times a week.
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Funnily enough as crazy as I am about potato salads I’m not a big fan of green salads with potatoes in them – I’m strange that way 😉
Yum I love potato salad, and I like the addition of mushrooms
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I love potato salads too, and the mushroom in it, although neither of our daughters are big fans of mushrooms so we have to hide them 😉
Mmmm potato salad… I love it so. I tend to make my mother’s (Greek) version which has feta, capers, lots of lemon and olive oil. But I can’t turn anything with bacon down! Thanks for linking to #CookBlogShare
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Ooh I like the idea of the Greek version too – who could turn down feta, lemon and olive oil? Yum!
Oh yummy!Funny as started eating new potatoes again recently so will be making this delicious salad! Thanks for linking up to #tastytuesdays
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You know me and how much I love potatoes! So this one is a favourite for me 🙂
This looks so delicious. I’ll definitely have to give it a try to this amazing recipe