How to Make Potato Salad

Let us learn the method of making “real” potato salad that can make your friends ask for more! The recipe is very easy. The things that are required for making potato salad are as mentioned below:

Yellow/red onions
4 diced hard boiled eggs
1 sliced hard boiled egg
3 lb russet potatoes
½ c mayonnaise
Celery
Cucumber
Parsley
Paprika
Cider vinegar
Sweet pickles
Red/green bell peppers

The method of making lip smacking and yummy potato salad is as given below in the step by step guide:

You have to begin by boiling whole and unpeeled potatoes for about 15 minutes. Keep boiling till they become tender. However be careful not to over boil them as they might break up while cutting them.
Start peeling the potatoes and slice them while they are still warm. Now to these sliced potatoes you will have to add mayonnaise and diced eggs and then stir them properly till the potatoes become moist.
Now you would have to add all the other ingredients to the bowl containing sliced potatoes. They are: salt, ½ c chopped sweet/dill pickle, ½ c finely chopped celery, 1 tsp celery seed, 2 tbsp Dijon mustard, 2tbsp parsley chopped, ¼ yellow/red chopped onion, ½ c diced cucumber, and ½ c chopped red/green bell pepper. After adding all of them, mix the contents thoroughly.
Take a large salad bowl and place the finished salad in it. You can also garnish this with sliced egg, chopped paprika and parsley.

After having known the method of making potato salad in the traditional manner, we can shift our focus towards making a variation of this recipe- The Bratwurst authentic potato salad. The ingredients that are needed for making this dish are as mentioned below:

1lb of bratwurst
4 slices of bacon
1 ¼ cup of water
1 onion medium and diced
2 tbsp flour
¼ c white vinegar
¼ c sugar
Around 6 boiled and sliced potatoes
Salt and pepper
2 tbsp pimentos

We shall understand the method of preparing bratwurst potato salad by following the step by step guide given below:

You have to begin by putting the bratwurst in a skillet that has ¼ cup of water. This has to be now heated over medium heat for about 15 minutes. Make sure that the skillet is covered.
After some time you can remove the cover of the skillet and raise the temperature slowly. Continue cooking until all the water has evaporated. You have to take care to brown each link by turning them occasionally.
Remove this from the heat after some time and set it aside. However keep the cover as it is. This will keep the bratwurst warm.
The next step involves frying of bacon strips until they turn crisp. After they become crisp you can remove them from pan and then break into pieces. Set them aside after doing so.
In the bacon grease you have to sauté the onions. In this you have to stir in the flour, vinegar, sugar and the remaining water. Stir the ingredients properly.
You shall also have to stir in some salt and pepper. Mix all the contents nicely and then pour out this mixture into the bacon drippings and onion in the skillet.
While the mixture is heating, you have to stir the mixture to make it smooth. Now you can add potato slices, bacon pieces, bratwurst and pimentos. Keep on heating all the contents till they have cooked properly.
You can serve the bratwurst potato salad while it is warm!