Classic Potato Salad with Eggs is a recipe for creamy original, old-fashioned potato salad, made with hard-boiled eggs and crunchy celery, but without pork.
It’s a flavorful, one-bowl side dish that’s both vegetarian and dairy-free!
It’s an ideal side salad to bring to picnics, parties, and BBQs or to have as a side to your favorite sandwich!
Easy Classic Potato Salad With Eggs is ann amazing old fashioned potato salad recipe and it’s made vegetarian with without pork!
The potatoes, eggs, onion, and celery in creamy mayonnaise (using Hellman’s–called Best Food’s, if you live west of the Rocky Mountains–is…well, best!) is a side dish that will keep people coming back for more!
Bring it to parties, picnics, or BBQs or having it at your family dinner table! Need something for potluck? You won’t go wrong with this side side!
It refrigerates well so it can be made ahead!
And it’s adaptable, so add more mayo or less, more eggs or less, more celery or less. It’s completely “to taste” and as you like it!
And potatoes have health benefits!
A little about potatoes
The potato is a perennial, starchy tuber, a root vegetable, that is native to the Americas.
Potatoes contain health benefits and are an excellent source of fiber, vitamins, and nutrients and provide fuel for the body.
Potatoes are gluten-free and very filling. In addition, they are a good source of antioxidants—some more than others—and they contain resistant starch. However, their nutritional content depends on the type of potato. Much of a potato’s nutrition is in the skin of the potato, and peeling them reduces their nutritional value.
Adding fattening toppings, such as sour cream or butter, adds calories and fat.
Different potatoes are considered to work best with different recipes, but overall, they can be used in a variety of delicious meals for recipes from all over the world.
There may be over a couple hundred varieties of potatoes in the United States, but there are only 7 main categories. The most popular of these are the red, white, yellow, and russet.
And eggs also have nutritional value!
For many years eggs were considered a source of high cholesterol and a possible cause of heart disease, and people were warned against them and recommended to have only a few per week in their diets.
It is true that one large egg yolk has 200 mg of cholesterol. However, the additional nutrients that eggs contain may actually help LOWER the risk of heart disease by raising the “good” cholesterol in one’s body.
Eggs are high in protein and filling but low in calories. They have nutritional value and contain a large variety of vitamins as well as some antioxidants.
The color of the yolk depends on the diet of the hen, and different types of chickens may lay different colored eggs; white or brownish.
Egg white consists primarily of approximately 90 percent water and contains almost no fat or carbohydrates.
The yolk of a new egg is firm, but then it absorbs water from the egg white, which causes it to increase in size and become loose.
You may be surprised to know that raw egg white is sometimes used in the preparation of vaccines.
Many people believe that since eggs are found in the refrigerated section of the supermarket, and very frequently near the dairy section, they are also dairy.
Nonetheless, eggs are NOT DAIRY. You CANNOT milk a chicken!
And celery is healthy too!
What does it mean when recipes say “to taste” about an ingredient?
When recipes say “to taste,” it means that you can put in as little or as much as you like to your own taste. Some recipes have many ingredients that a cook can adjust to their own taste when cooking (not so much when baking though).
The best way to calculate what your taste is with a recipe that you are not yet familiar with is to first taste the dish and then add the “to taste” ingredient GRADUALLY, a little at a time—a splash of this or a pinch of that—until the dish is just the way you like it.
Make sure to stir the ingredient after each time you add it so that the flavor will distribute evenly and become part of the dish. Then taste again. Repeat until you reach your personal preference.
Note: If you plan on using the recipe again, it is highly recommended to make a note of what and how much you added so that you can refer to it next time.
What does it mean when a recipe says that an ingredient is “optional”?
If an ingredient is “optional,” it means that you can add it in or not based on your own preference. An optional ingredient can be flavor related (i.e., salty, sweet, spicy, etc.), appearance related (garnish), or even something like nuts or chocolate chips in baking.
What is needed for this recipe?
I hardly ever meal plan, so I like to keep a cupboard full of seasonings, spices, veggies, and canned goods in my kitchen to use whenever the mood strikes.
But these are all you need to have on hand to make this recipe even last minute!
2 pounds of potatoes
celery
onion
hard-boiled eggs
mayonnaise
white vinegar
salt
sugar
ground black pepper
Do you love salads like found in New York delis and bagel shops? Try these!
Deli-Style Coleslaw
Deli-Style Macaroni Salad
Deli-Style Cucumber Salad
Easy Classic Potato Salad With Eggs
Easy and delicious, creamy old-fashioned potato salad with eggs.
Ingredients
- 2 pounds of boiled potatoes, peeled*
- 1 cup thinly sliced (horizontally) celery
- 1/2 medium onion, chopped or diced (approximately 1/2 cup)
- 2 hard-boiled eggs
- 1 cup of Best Foods/Hellmann's mayonnaise**
- 2 tablespoons white vinegar
- 1½ teaspoons salt
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper (and a little more for garnish if desired)
Instructions
- Cut the boiled potatoes into approximately 1" pieces and place in a mixing bowl.
- Add onion and celery to the bowl and chop the eggs into 6-8 pieces and add them to the bowl as well.
- Add the mayonnaise, vinegar, salt, sugar, and pepper to the bowl and mix everything thoroughly.
- Chill (tastes better if eaten chilled).
Notes
*5-6 medium potatoes
**Best Foods and Hellmann's mayonnaise is the same--the name just depends on where you live in the US.
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
4Serving Size:
1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 687Total Fat: 50gSaturated Fat: 8gUnsaturated Fat: 41gCholesterol: 120mgSodium: 1309mgCarbohydrates: 53gFiber: 5gSugar: 6gProtein: 9g