Creamy Mustard Garlic Potato Salad

Ingredients

1 lb potatoes (I used steakhouse fingerling tri-color potatoes)
1/2 cup mayonnaise
3-4 Tbsp Dijon or stone ground mustard (to taste)
2 Tbsp apple cider vinegar
4 cloves garlic, thinly sliced
3 sprigs fresh rosemary
4 slices bacon (crumbled)
1/8 cup shredded sharp cheddar cheese
Salt and pepper to taste

Quick Start

Cut potatoes to desired size and boil until fork tender (15-20 minutes).

At the same time, cook bacon until crispy and set aside. Crumble or chop when cool.

Combine mayo, mustard, and apple cider vinegar in a bowl and whisk together. It should have a slightly runny consistency. Taste, and add salt and pepper as needed.

Remove rosemary from stem and roughly chop, then add rosemary and garlic to dressing and mix.

Add potatoes and toss until coated.

Refrigerate until ready to eat, at least 1 hour.

Just before serving, add in cheese and bacon crumbles and mix. This keeps the bacon from getting soggy or chewy.

Gear

No special gear needed!

The Deets

Yield: 6 servings
Oven:
Notes:

About this Recipe

I have a terrible habit of buying potatoes and forgetting about them, which drives Eric crazy because he had a very unfortunate experience with some old potatoes once. So I recently found myself with a couple pounds of these steakhouse fingerling potatoes that I really needed to use. We’re not huge fans of standard potato salad, and I’ve been on a mustard kick lately so I decided to see what I could figure out that we would like better. We also have a very happy rosemary plant that I’ve been trying to actually use this summer, and add that to our obsession with garlic and… ta da!

Almost.

I wasn’t planning to put bacon in at all (and I was almost certain we didn’t have any), but Eric brought it up multiple times during the prep process, so I figured I might as well look. Luckily, I found a bag of frozen bacon in the depths of our freezer and it totally made the salad.

The extra crunch was perfect! I definitely recommend waiting to add it as close to serving as you can.

Method

No extended method this time

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