Potato Salad with Bacon

Potato Salad with Bacon- new potatoes mixed with bacon and spring onions and dressed with mayonnaise. A quick and easy summer side dish for your buffet or BBQ.

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I love potato salad, really love it, especially if it's a delicious home-made one with new potatoes. The first time I ever had potato salad, it was a packaged one from a supermarket. Inside were little cubes of almost hard potato, pieces of white onion and a very watery, acidic sauce, which I am guessing was supposed to be mayonnaise. Needless to say, I didn't like it. I was quite young at the time and it was only a few years later, in a Home Economics lesson, when I made a real potato salad for the first time, that I realised it wasn't supposed to taste like that!

Last weekend I was making a buffet lunch and I wanted to pep up the side dishes a bit. I started with the Lemon and Garlic Giant Couscous Salad and then moved onto the potato salad. New potatoes, check. Spring onions, check. Mayonnaise, check. But what else? I didn't want to put more salad vegetables in as that was covered with the couscous salad. Bacon seemed like a good idea because, let's face it, bacon is good with everything!


I used baby new potatoes when I made this, but my sister swears by Anya potatoes (funny looking knobbly ones- they taste good though), whereas Jersey potatoes are generally considered the gold standard when they are in season.


It worked beautifully, salty chunks of bacon, creamy mayonnaise, a touch of Dijon mustard,  crunchy spring onions and soft new potatoes. I couldn't get enough of it! So much nicer than anything from the shops. I like to add black pepper, but there's definitely no need for salt as you get plenty from the bacon.


Next time you're having a BBQ or a summer lunch, give this very simple recipe a whirl!


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Potato Salad with Bacon with spring onions sprinkled over the top



buffet, BBQ, side dish, summer recipe
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Potato Salad with Bacon

prep time: 5 Mcook time: 15 Mtotal time: 20 M
Potato Salad with Bacon- new potatoes mixed with bacon and spring onions and dressed with mayonnaise. A quick and easy summer side dish for your buffet or BBQ.

ingredients:

  • 800g new potatoes
  • 8 rashers of unsmoked bacon
  • 3 heaped tbsp mayonnaise
  • 3 spring onions
  • 2 tsp Dijon mustard
  • pinch of black pepper

instructions:

  1. Cut the new potatoes into halves and put in a saucepan of water.
  2. Bring water to the boil and let the potatoes boil for about 10 minutes or until they are softened.
  3. Put the bacon on a baking tray and put in the oven at 180 degrees (170 fan, gas mark 4) for 10-15 minutes until really crispy.
  4. Let the bacon cool and then break it up into medium-sized chunks.
  5. Chop the spring onions finely and set aside.
  6. Drain the new potatoes and give them a bit of a shake in the pan to fluff them a little.
  7. Tip the potatoes into a large serving bowl and add the mayonnaise, Dijon mustard and black pepper. Stir it through well. Don't worry about bumping the potatoes about, it adds to the texture.
  8. Add the bacon and spring onions and stir through until they are well distributed.
Calories
240.92
Fat (grams)
10.79
Sat. Fat (grams)
2.69
Carbs (grams)
29.17
Fiber (grams)
3.20
Net carbs
25.96
Sugar (grams)
1.80
Protein (grams)
8.80
Sodium (milligrams)
361.58
Cholesterol (grams)
18.08
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