perfect potato salad

Name: Perfect Potato Salad
Ingredients: - 5 pounds russet potatoes; - 6 large eggs; - 5 tablespoons sweet pickle juice; - 1 teaspoon salt; - 1/2 teaspoon coarsely ground black pepper; - 1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley or 2 tablespoons parsley flakes; - 1/2 cup finely chopped celery; - 1/2 cup finely chopped sweet pickles; - 1/2 cup finely chopped red bell pepper, patted dry; - 1/4 cup very finely chopped onion, rinsed and patted dry; - 2 cups real mayonnaise; - 3 teaspoons coarse "country" dijon mustard

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Kathleen Riemer

Kenosha, WI

Updated on Sep 6, 2013

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Ingredients

- 5 pounds russet potatoes
- 6 large eggs
- 5 tablespoons sweet pickle juice
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon coarsely ground black pepper
- 1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley or 2 tablespoons parsley flakes
- 1/2 cup finely chopped celery
- 1/2 cup finely chopped sweet pickles
- 1/2 cup finely chopped red bell pepper, patted dry
- 1/4 cup very finely chopped onion, rinsed and patted dry
- 2 cups real mayonnaise
- 3 teaspoons coarse "country" dijon mustard

How To Make perfect potato salad

Step 1

Cook potatoes whole with skins on in boiling, salted (1 tablespoon) water in covered 5-quart Dutch oven for about 40 minutes; drain immediately. Cool for about 45 minutes, then peel and cube. Put back in pan to mix. 2 Meanwhile, to hard-cook eggs, place eggs in 3-quart saucepan and cover with cold water to at least one inch above eggs. Bring to a rapid boil; remove from heat and cover tightly with lid. Let stand for 18 minutes. Cool at once in cold water. 3 Sprinkle sweet pickle juice over the cubed potatoes; stir. Add salt, pepper and parsley flakes (or parsley); stir. Add celery, pickles, bell pepper and onion; stir. Add mayonnaise and mustard, and sort of stir them together on top of everything else to mix well before stirring the combination into the other ingredients. (Note: Rinsing the onion takes a bit of the "bite" out of it and makes it edible to some people who normally can't eat raw onion.) 4 Use egg slicer to slice eggs. Reserve 7 slices for garnish, then roughly chop remaining slices and add to salad. Taste and adjust seasoning. Transfer salad to 3-quart serving dish, garnish, cover, and refrigerate for at least 4 hours (I prefer to make it the day before).
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