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Potatoes for Potato Salad
You’ll love this grilled potato salad, and it’s the perfect bbq side dish to serve alongside slabs of smoky ribs, juicy brisket and beer can chickens. It’s so good you should consider making a double recipe, just to make sure there’s enough!
If I have room on the grill, I’ll cook extra potatoes and keep ’em in the refrigerator. They keep well for a few days, and can be used for lots of different recipes. Pre-cooked grilled potatoes are great chopped and fried, for smashed grilled potatoes, or for peas and potatoes in cream sauce. Or you can make more potato salad!
Homemade Potato Salad Recipe
This recipe is best when made a day in advance so the flavors have time to come together.
- 3 pounds of medium size red potatoes
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 3 hard boiled eggs, chopped
- 1/4 cup celery, diced
- 1/4 cup white onion, diced
- 2 tablespoons dill pickle, diced
- 1 tablespoon sweet pickle relish
- 3/4 cup mayonaisse
- 1/3 cup sour cream
- 1 tablespoon cider vinegar
- 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon white pepper
- 1 tablespoon chopped chives or chopped fresh parsley, for garnish
Wash and dry the potatoes, trimming off bad spots, but leaving the skin. Rub with oil and grill for 30 to 45 minutes, or until tender, using indirect heat. Remove the potatoes from the grill, then cut into bite size pieces when cool enough to handle.
In a large bowl, combine the potatoes, eggs, sweet and dill pickles, diced onions and celery. Now for the dressing. In a small bowl, combine the mayo, sour cream, mustard, vinegar, salt and pepper.
Stir the dressing into the chopped potatoes. Chill well, and top with the chopped chives or parsley just before serving.
This grilled potato salad has a nice, fresh flavor. Give it a try, and it just might become your favorite homemade potato salad recipe!