Great American Potato Salad

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Creamy mayo, hearty potatoes, savory hard-cooked eggs, crunchy celery: ingredients for a quintessentially American salad. We the people say, "Yum."

time

prep:

30 min

total:

3 hr 30 min

servings

total:

8 servings, 1/2 cup each

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What You Need

1/2

cup KRAFT Real Mayo Mayonnaise

Tbsp. yellow mustard

1/2

tsp. celery seed

1/8

tsp. pepper

1-1/2

lb. white potatoes (about 5), cooked, cooled and cubed

hard-cooked eggs, chopped

onion, chopped

stalks celery, sliced

1/3

cup dill pickle relish

Make It

step 1

MIX first 4 ingredients in large bowl.

step 2

ADD remaining ingredients; mix lightly.

step 3

REFRIGERATE several hours or until chilled.

Kraft Kitchens Tips

Serving Suggestion

For a great summer meal, serve this classic potato salad with grilled chicken breasts and a fresh fruit salad.

Picnic Safety Tip

When taking food to a picnic, do so in an insulated bag with a reusable ice pack. If you don't have any reusable ice packs, freeze individual juice boxes the night before the picnic. When you're ready to go, pack the frozen juice boxes around the foods in the cooler. The juice boxes will keep your food cold and will be thawed when you get to the picnic to serve as cold drinks for the kids.

Substitutes

Substitute MIRACLE WHIP Dressing for the mayo, GREY POUPON Dijon Mustard for the yellow mustard and 1/2 cup CLAUSSEN Sweet Pickle Relish for the dill pickle relish.

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MstrChefDaryl

posted:7/1/2009

The basic recipe for this potato salad is allright, however I find if you change the; Mayo for the New Olive Oil Mayo & increase to 3/4 cup. Add 2 more Eggs & rough chop them in. Take out the White Onion & add 6 Scallions cut 1/2 inch long. Remove the relish completely. Do this and you will truly have a traditional egg based potato salad.

a cook

posted:7/1/2009

I have made this nearly exact recipe for dozens of years. I use sweet pickle relish instead of the dill relish. There is never any left at our potlucks

mecg007

posted:7/1/2009

Sounds like a really great potato salad...I just LOVE mustard potato salad..! I wonder if I try making this and adding some mustard how it would be..? I'll try and let you'll know..!!

gaby386

posted:7/1/2009

I have made this over and over again and I get such raves everytime. One friend said he thought his mom made the best potatoe salad but not anymore.

KarenS660908

posted:7/1/2009

Our family has been making this recipe for years. I'm 60 years old and I can't remember a different one. It's the best. Everyone asks for me to make it for picnics and for get togethers of one kind or another.

jrjone

posted:7/1/2009

I use sweet salad cubes and leave out the mustard.

lauria55

posted:7/1/2009

This is a recipe I learned from my mother and one that I've now been making for over 35 years. The only thing we do differently is substitute Kraft Miracle Whip for the mayo. We like the extra "zip" the Miracle Whip adds.

MsSharonK

posted:7/1/2009

I have been making potato salad like this for over 50 years--same ingredients, except I use Miracle Whip instead of Mayo, and use sweet pickle relish instead of dill. My mother would be so proud that she taught me to make the Great American Potato Salad.

wayne5170908

posted:7/1/2009

We've been making this potato salad recipe for years because it's always a hit. We double the ingredients (because everyone always wants to take a bowl home) and, being from New England, instead of adding the relish, we add 1/4 c. of Italian salad dressing. Yummy! Yummy!

donbarb

posted:7/1/2009

This is the recipe my Mother and now I have used for years. My daughter uses it too. It is better than anyother Potato Salad Recipe that I know of.