Bacon Potato Salad with Sweet Mustard Dressing
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Bacon Potato Salad with Sweet Mustard Dressing. This satisfying bacon potato salad has a a sweet and tangy mustard dressing. It borrows the best from a combination of a few favourite potato salad recipes.
This bacon potato salad recipe with sweet mustard dressing was inspired by a couple of different potato salads. I combined them into one and then borrowed the dressing from a third recipe. It's a sweet mustard sauce that we often served with cold cuts and potato salad as a kid.
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Bacon Potato Salad with Sweet Mustard Dressing
Bacon Potato Salad with Sweet Mustard Dressing This satisfying bacon potato salad with a sweet and tangy mustard dressing borrows the best from a combination of a few favorite potato salad recipes.
Ingredients
- 3 pounds washed, , unpeeled red potatoes, diced large
- ½ cup jarred salad dressing, (or mayonnaise if you prefer)
- ¼ cup plain yellow mustard
- 2 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
- 3 tablespoon white sugar
- 1 small red pepper, , diced small
- 2 tablespoon minced red onion
- 3 tablespoon chopped capers
- 3 tablespoon chopped cilantro, (or parsley)
- 8 slices smoked bacon, , cooked crisp and roughly chopped
- ½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- pinch salt
Instructions
- Simmer the diced potatoes slowly in boiling salted water just until fork tender. Do not overcook the potatoes or they will fall apart in the salad.
- Drain the potatoes and scatter them on cookie sheet to cool quickly. I usually put the cookie sheet in the fridge for a half hour or so to cool off completely.
- Mix together all of the ingredients except the potatoes.
- Pour the over the cold potatoes and toss well. Store in an airtight container in the fridge until ready to serve.
Notes
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Nutrition Information
Yield
12Serving Size
1 servingAmount Per Serving Calories 169Saturated Fat 2gCholesterol 10mgSodium 320mgCarbohydrates 24gFiber 2gSugar 6gProtein 4g
What jarred salad dressing did you use - I'm in South Africa and I really want to make this but I'm not sure about the salad dressing? french, greek, italian?? or mayonaise??
Please Help!!
Dawn
Is that Dawn from Jabula Lodge
*Dawn* I believe they mean like mayonnaise .
Miracle Whip, not Mayo.
In case, like me, you can't get Miracle Whip wherer you are (I had never even heard of it) I found this recipe for making it yourself http://www.food.com/recipe/homemade-miracle-whip-41781 Hope that helps!
Thanks everyone for taking the time to help me.
This weekend I will be making my own Miracle Whip and trying this awesome looking salad.
Once again - THANKS
I love this. I think you have created a great recipe which gathers all good elements. It almost has all my favorite ingredients in it. I am just thinking to substitute the vinegar with lime juice or lemon juice and the sugar with honey. I love honey in salad. 🙂
is there an alternative if I do not want to use miracle whip or mayo?
Try low fat yogurt. I make some dressings with that.
I made exactly as recipe stated. So good. Reminded me of dressing my mom used to make many years ago but hers had to be cooked. This one is so much easier and delicious. Had a little dressing left over and smeared a wee bit on a hamburger the next day and it was yummy too. Best potato salad I've had in a very long time.
While it may be true that you can never have enough potato salad recipes this recipe is really the only one you need. Simply fantastic. I ran out of potatoes so I boiled up some elbow macaroni to use up the left over dressing. Wow, both salads turned out excellent. I'm thinking this would also make some pretty kick butt deviled egg filling mixed in with the yolks.
I bet it would too!
I made this a few months ago as written except I left out the red pepper and added a small amount of pimento for a little bit of color. It was delicious and I now make it quite often. Thanks Barry.
Heinz Salad Cream would be perfect in this recipe. You can find in most grocery stores in same aisle mayo, miracle whip and salad dressings.
I would have thought the taste would benefit if dressing was added to warm potatoes?? That is done sometimes—but not recommended in this recipe?