Mama's Southern Potato Salad

Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, mama's southern potato salad. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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. There's no celery in Mama's classic recipe for potato salad.

Mama's Southern Potato Salad is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Mama's Southern Potato Salad is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin with this 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 can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Mama's Southern Potato Salad:
  1. Get 4-6 Med to Large Russet potatoes or 8-10 Red potatoes (Using russets in the pictures)
  2. Get 4 Large Eggs (or more if you like, my family does, so I use 6, at least)
  3. Take 1 Med Sweet onion or 1 Bundle Green Onions (Optional) Using sweet onion for these pics
  4. Prepare 1 1⁄2 c. Mayonnaise (Maybe a little more or less to taste)
  5. Make ready 1⁄3 c. Sweet Relish
  6. Get 2 tbsp. (of each) Spicy, Honey Dijon, and Reg. Mustard
  7. Get 2 tbsp. 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 1⁄4 c. Bacon Bits or 2-3 slices of bacon, fried and broken up
  9. Take 2-3 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. Prepare To Taste Salt and Pepper

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. Add salt, pepper, pimentos and pickles to the potatoes. Peel and chop cooled eggs and add to the potatoes.

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!!

Add salt, pepper, pimentos and pickles to the potatoes. Peel and chop cooled eggs and add to the potatoes. In a separate bowl, combine mayo, mustard and pickle juice. Chop whites and add to potatoes with onion. In a small bowl, mash yolks.

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