Grammy's Kitchen · Potato Salad · Perfect Potato Salad
One of 103 potato salad recipes we measured
49 cooks on www.melskitchencafe.com rate it 4.6★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 103.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| fat | 16% | 9% |
| acid | 0% | 1% |
| salt | 0% | 0% |
| egg | 18% | 0% |
| dairy | 6% | 0% |
| aromatics | 0% | 5% |
Adapts cleanly: gluten-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 440 g | 2 cups mayonnaise (see note) |
| 163 g | 2/3 cup buttermilk |
| 3 g | 1 1/2 teaspoons dried parsley |
| 8 g | 1 to 1 1/2 teaspoons salt (see note) |
| 5 g | 1 1/2 teaspoons minced dried onions or 1 teaspoon onion powder |
| 3 g | 1 teaspoon garlic powder |
| 6 g | 1 teaspoon seasoned salt |
| 2 g | 1 teaspoon ground black pepper |
| 26 g | 2 tablespoons yellow mustard |
| 2268 g | 5 pounds potatoes (see note) |
| 425 g | 1 (15-ounce) can olives (cut in half) |
| 500 g | 10 diced hard-boiled eggs (see note) |
Method: 4 steps, published by www.melskitchencafe.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“I have a favorite potato salad that is heavier on the mustard and has lots of dill pickles, pickle juice and celery seed. I was not sure I would like this one as much, but I do! It's got a totally different flavor profile and I love that it doesn't have c” — a cook, 5.0★
“Mel, have you ever made this in the instant pot? I wanted to try, so I scoured the Internet for a method and it actually worked out great! I diced the 5 lbs of potatoes and put them in the instant pot with 1.5 C water. Then I nestled 8 eggs on top of the pota” — a cook, 5.0★