Eggs, pickles, and celery makes Mom’s Potato Salad an easy and delicious side dish. It is the perfect salad to bring to any picnics or barbecues you are headed to this summer.
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During the summer months we usually live on picnic food, with the occasional taco or pizza night thrown into the rotation. We like to do a lot of grilled chicken, burgers, and this Easy Slow Cooker Pulled Pork for easy dinners. Yes, it is quite the all-American type food. Sometimes we change it up with a big bowl of this Grape Pecan Chicken Salad to be different.
Usually we make a big bowl of this Veggie Pasta Salad or this Cranberry Zucchini Slaw to go along with just about everything.
But every so often I get a potato salad craving. Sometimes we jazz it up with bacon, ranch, and cheddar cheese because who doesn’t love a good loaded potato salad. Am I right?
But 9 times out of 10 this is the potato salad that we end up making for dinner. Just a simple, classic potato salad, just like the one my mom used to make.
I remember eating dinner outside on our picnic table every summer as a kid. My mom made the potato salad, and my dad grilled burgers and dogs.
As I got older I took over making dinner, and I continued making the best potato salad recipe the same way my mom did.
A big bowl with lots of potatoes, celery, onion, egg, and pickles in a coating of mayonnaise and mustard. Why mess with a good thing, right?
How to Make Mom’s Potato Salad:
Most of the time I just throw a little bit of each ingredient into the bowl until it looks about right. I think this potato salad right here was the first time I have actually measured everything before I stirred it in.
I wanted to be able to share the recipe with you, and I thought you would appreciate actual ingredient measurements instead of saying a little bit of this and a little bit of that.
Although, you really can’t mess this traditional potato salad up because you make it to taste. If you like more pickles, add more. If you do not like eggs, leave them out.
Want to give it a healthy boost? Use half Greek yogurt and half mayonnaise.
I do have to say though, this is the best combo of ingredients. It’s a favorite here. Every time I make it for dinner or for a picnic, it disappears in a hurry. It has that mom touch to it that everyone loves!
Some of our Favorite Picnic Salads:
Bacon Broccoli Tortellini Salad – a creamy homemade dressing make this easy pasta and veggie salad a hit with everyone.
Balsamic Caprese Veggie Salad – this easy four ingredient salad has a great homemade dressing that makes it a healthy dish to bring to picnics.
Easy Macaroni Salad – ranch dressing, peas, eggs, and tomatoes in a creamy sauce makes this a great side dish for picnics.
Strawberry Shortcake Fluff Salad – fresh strawberries and angel food cake cubes add a fun twist to this easy dessert salad.
More picnic salads for your parties:
- Watermelon Blackberry Lime Salad from Reluctant Entertainer – you are only four ingredients away from this gorgeous fruit salad
- Greek Zucchini Salad from Fifteen Spatulas – this salad is loaded with fresh Greek flavors and is healthy and refreshing
- Mediterranean Bean Salad from The View from Great Island – this super food salad is loaded with bright and colorful veggies
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Mom’s Potato Salad recipe:
Eggs, pickles, and celery makes Mom's Potato Salad an easy and delicious side dish. It is the perfect salad to bring to any picnics or barbecues you are headed to this summer.
Ingredients
- 10 cups cubed red potatoes
- 3 celery stalks, diced
- 1 cup diced dill pickles
- 1/2 cup diced red onion
- 3 hard-boiled eggs, peeled and diced
- 1 cup mayonnaise
- 1/4 cup mustard
- salt and pepper
Instructions
- Cover the potatoes with water. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat and continue to simmer until potatoes are tender. A fork or knife should be able to go through the potato without any resistance.
- Drain and rinse the potatoes. Cover with cold water until the potatoes are cool. Drain again.
- Stir together the potatoes, celery, pickles, onion, eggs, mayonnaise, and mustard until combined.
- Season to taste with the salt and pepper. Refrigerate until ready to serve.
*This recipe was first posted July 2015.
Judy says
Tried this recipe. I’m in my 60’s and have never made a potato salad in my life. My husband (now deceased) didn’t like potato salad so I never had a reason to fix it.
I tried this recipe because it sounded closest to my mother’s recipe (who is also deceased) so I couldn’t get hers. Hers is the only one that I liked.
It was great. Tasted like my mother’s. My kids and grandkids loved it also. Thank you.
Jocelyn says
I am so glad to hear that you tried the potato salad and that it reminded you of your mother’s recipe! You made my day!!
Patti says
Pardon my ignorance, but in the photo the potatoes appear to be peeled but it doesn’t say to peel in the recipe. And how would you estimate 10 cups of potatoes in weight when buying at the store? Or how many potatoes? Thanks, this looks like my late mom’s!p
Jocelyn says
It doesn’t say to peel them because I never peel red potatoes. If you look at the photos again, you will see the peels on some of them. And my guess is a 5 pound bag. I just kept cutting potatoes until I had 10 cups of cubes.
Marie Czarnecki says
Jocelyn: Your comment was exactly what I was thinking!!! I might add why does people ask crazy questions like that one and out of the 5# bag of potatoes you may have one left over, HA, HA, I just get a big laugh that tickles my funny bone. I think some people need to take a cooking course…. I may sound rude but some just don’t use common sense…. Thank You for the recipe, reasonably typed and to understand, and to read.
Katie says
Wow. Rude! Not everyone can cook and they have to start somewhere. Props to them for giving it a shot.
kentuckylady717@hotmail.com says
I make mine similar to yours, except I use half dill relish & half sweet relish, and I cook my potatoes with the peeling on and when cool, peel and cube them, they seem to have a better taste, that cutting them and cooking them in water….. try it once….:) I have been wanting homemade potato salad, think I will make some….
I add same ingredients to Macaroni too, to make Macaroni Salad. and I use the elbow macaroni…..no other kind…..just not the same 🙂
Michelle R Reittinger says
Hi – thanks for the potato salad recipe. I have never made potato salad before and I finally tried it. Mine seemed dry. I added about another cup of mayo. Any tips. I made sure I had just 10 cups of potatoes. Is there something else you add? Thanks.
Jocelyn says
I’m glad to hear you tried the recipe. I made the recipe based on how my mom made it when I was growing up. Obviously, everyone has different tastes, so if you thought it was dry and wanted more mayo, that is perfectly fine.
Theresa says
I don’t think I could ever make potato salad according to a recipe! My mom didn’t, so when she told me her secret, just a little of this and little of that I didn’t either. And it always came out tasting the same. Low and behold here is our family recipe for potato salad. Couldn’t believe it when I read the ingredients! ( I have added chopped radishes for color if I have them.) All a matter of taste. If it an’t broke, why fix it!!!
Thanks so much for the memory.
Arline J Davis says
I use red potatoes or yukon gold…I always bake them in a little olive oil, salt and pepper. Just mix them with mayo, sour cream and all the other ingredients…delicious!!!!!