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Get ready for your next barbecue with our classic family favourite potato salad recipe. Perfect for sharing with friends and family.
There’s something intensely satisfying about a table filled with food, a table so full that there’s no room to sit – you all have to stand and pick, graze and nibble until your belly is full.
What makes it even better is when you’re standing around said table with friends and family.
There’s nothing that brings people together better than sharing food.
I tend to go a bit overboard with the foodstuffs, putting on a big spread of all sorts of things that I like, including our family’s favourite potato salad.
Sometimes, I make this potato salad with half full-fat mayo and half soured cream seasoned with dry mustard powder, garlic, salt, and pepper, and sometimes, I make it a little bit healthier with equal parts low-calorie mayo and fat-free natural yoghurt.
Ingredients
- 454 grams new potatoes
- 2 hard-boiled eggs
- 0.5 small red onion, finely chopped
- 2 gherkins, finely chopped
- 1 stick celery, finely chopped
- 85 ml mayonnaise
- 85 ml plain natural yoghurt
- 1 tsp dry mustard powder
- 2 tbsp fresh parsley, finely chopped
- 2 tbsp fresh chives, finely chopped
- 1 small garlic clove, finely chopped
- Shetland sea salt, to taste
- freshly ground black pepper, to taste
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How to make this potato salad recipe
- In the morning, boil the new potatoes in salted water for 15-20 minutes until tender. Drain, cool, and leave in the fridge to chill.
- Hard boil the eggs, if using, and cool.
- If you wish, you can leave the potato skins on the potatoes. The cold potatoes should be cut into 1 cm cubes. If using eggs, cut them into small pieces, too.
- Add the red onion, gherkins and celery and toss gently to combine.
- Combine the mayonnaise, yoghurt, mustard powder and garlic in a small bowl and season well to taste.
- Spoon over the potato mixture and toss gently to combine well.
- Stir in the chopped herbs, taste again, and season to taste (I like a lot of salt and pepper in my potato salad). Chill until needed.
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Our Family Favourite Potato Salad Recipe
Ingredients
- 454 grams Jersey Royal new potatoes
- 2 hard boiled eggs
- 0.5 small red onion finely chopped
- 2 gherkins finely chopped
- 1 stick celery finely chopped
- 85 ml mayonnaise
- 85 ml plain natural yoghurt
- 1 tsp dry mustard powder
- 2 tbsp fresh parsley finely chopped
- 2 tbsp fresh chives finely chopped
- 1 small garlic clove finely chopped
- Shetland sea salt to taste
- freshly ground black pepper to taste
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Instructions
- In the morning boil 454 grams Jersey Royal new potatoes for 15-20 minutes in salted water until tender. Drain, cool, and leave in the fridge to chill.
- Hard boil the eggs, if using, and cool.
- Leave the potato skins on the potatoes, if you wish, and cut the cold potatoes into 1 cm cubes. Cut the 2 hard boiled eggs into small pieces too, if using.
- Add 0.5 small red onion, finely chopped, 2 gherkins, chopped, and 1 stick celery, finely chopped. Toss gently to combine.
- Combine 85 ml mayonnaise, 85 ml plain natural yoghurt, 1 tsp dry mustard powder and 1 small garlic clove, finely chopped, together in a small bowl and season well to taste.
- Spoon over the potato mixture and toss gently to combine well.
- Stir in 2 tbsp fresh parsley and 2 tbsp fresh chives, taste again and season to taste with Shetland sea salt and freshly ground black pepper (I like a lot of salt and pepper in my potato salad). Chill until needed.
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I love a good potato salad! This looks great! We have a family recipe, but I always like trying new ones. Thanks!
Looks like you guys had great fun cooking on the BBQ, you always create such amazing food!
Ooh I adore potato salad, its one of the greatest markers of summer and always seems to come out at BBQ’S . Yours looks delicious x
What a spread!!! All looks amazing, love the idea of those watermelon wedges.
Wow loads of yummy looking food there. I think I have to visit sometime.
Your potato salad is a lot more interesting than mine I have to admit x
Love the combination of eggs and potato in this salad, must try this!
Wow! What a delicious spread you have here! Your potato salad looks loaded with yummy flavors, too!
I love potato salad nad yours look great.I like the sound of the condiments too.
The whole spread looks just wonderful and that potato salad, YUM!! I like mine with eggs too, so I can relate. I’m intrigued by the condiments too and look forward to trying them when they are in the US.
That does sound good. We’ll be barbecuing tomorrow and I’d love to try making a new potato salad!
This looks like the perfect potato mayo, I love the idea of adding some garlic and egg. It is perfect for summer!
Hands up I love a good potato salad there is something wonderful about the taste, I am totally going to have to try your recipe it sounds amazing. x
If my table full of food looked like yours I’d be so happy. Can’t go wrong with a good potato salad x
wow, now that’s what you call a BBQ! The potatoe salad looks lush, I will defo be making this
Your husband has done a fantastic job with that fire pit – I hope you get lots of chance to use it this summer. That wind speed is crazy! Corn on the cob is one of the best BBQ tastes ever!
Wow! Look at the feast! I have such a hankering for potato salad, yours looks amazing! Nettie
Oh!! This is perfect for me, I was looking on pinterest yesterday for a potato salad recipe and this one is PERFECT! I’ll give this one a go when we have our picnic. yum! Also, I really want to try the watermelon sprinkled with crumbled feta cheese, that looks amazing! xx
Every time I read your posts you make me so hungry!!
Those sauces are really good but alot of the time its worth checking labels as other cheaper brands may be free from too!
This recipe sounds yum yum. I will try those condiments.
Oh I would love to come for food at your house – you make it look and sound so amazing! Those sauces seem great value for money. Kaz x
Wow this buffet looks incredible, will be making the potato salad x
Who doesn’t love some potato salad? This is a nation wide favourite and thank you for sharing your wonderful recipe.
Loved the way you explained and presented it.Nice..
Love me a good potato salad and this one sounds perfect! Job well done to your husband on the fire pit too!
I need to try these free-from condiments when I return to England. My hubby has coeliac disease and I’ve just had to go wheat, dairy, egg and sugar free due to intolerance so these sound amazing!
The potato salad looks yummy! The free from condiments seem great. I will look for them in the shops.
What a cool a bbq pit ! Love it. And the potato salad – SO enticing!!! I would finish the whole thing without trying to o hard. Thanks for sharing !!
This potato salad looks Out Of This World!!! What a perfect side dish for summer!! {Also – the view from your backyard is beautiful!!}