Mamas German Hot Potato Salad Recipes

HOT GERMAN POTATO SALAD III

Steps:

• Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add potatoes and cook until tender but still firm, about 30 minutes. Drain, cool and slice thin.
• Place bacon in a large, deep skillet. Cook over medium high heat until evenly brown. Drain, crumble and set aside, reserving drippings.
• Saute onions in bacon drippings until they are golden-brown.
• In a small bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, salt, celery seed, and pepper. Add to the sauteed onions and cook and stir until bubbly, then remove from heat. Stir in water and vinegar, then return to the stove and bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Boil and stir for one minute. Carefully stir bacon and sliced potatoes into the vinegar/water mixture, stirring gently until potatoes are heated through.

MAMA'S WARM GERMAN POTATO SALAD

Steps:

• Place potatoes in a large saucepan; add water to cover. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cook, uncovered, until tender, 18-21 minutes. Drain; cool slightly. Peel and thinly slice. Whisk oil, vinegar, salt and pepper. Add potatoes; toss to coat. Add remaining ingredients; toss to combine. Serve warm.

OMA'S GERMAN POTATO SALAD

Steps:

• Put the potatoes in a large pot filled with cold water. Bring to a boil, reduce the heat to medium and cook until fork-tender, 35 to 40 minutes. Let the potatoes cool for 45 minutes; they will still be warm but will hold their shape when sliced into 1/4-inch-thick rounds.
• Heat 1 tablespoon of the oil in a large saute pan over medium heat. Add the bacon and cook until crisp, stirring occasionally, about 10 minutes. With a slotted spoon, remove the bacon to a paper-towel-lined plate; set aside. Remove the drippings from the pan; return 3 tablespoonfuls and discard the rest.
• Add the onions to the pan and sweat over medium heat until soft, about 6 minutes. Add the vinegar, mustard, sugar, 2 1/2 teaspoons salt and 1 teaspoon pepper and cook until fragrant, 1 minute more.
• Add the cooled potatoes, half the cooked bacon, half the scallions, half the parsley and the remaining 2 tablespoons olive oil to the pan. Stir to combine and season with salt and pepper. Serve garnished with the remaining bacon, scallions and parsley.

HOT GERMAN POTATO SALAD

Steps:

• 1. Put the potatoes in a large saucepan. Add 2 tablespoons salt and enough cold water to cover by 1-inch. Bring to a boil, lower the heat, and simmer until fork-tender, about 30 minutes. Drain and cool slightly.
• 2. When the potatoes are almost done, cook the bacon in a skillet over medium-high heat until crisp, 4 minutes. Drain the bacon on a paper towel-lined plate. Lower the heat to medium. Add the onion and 2 teaspoons salt and cook, until the onion is translucent, about 8 minutes, stirring occasionally. Whisk in the broth, wine, vinegar, mustard, and sugar and boil until slightly thickened, about 5 minutes.
• 3. Crumble the bacon into a serving bowl. Using a paring knife, peel the skins off the warm potatoes and cut them into bite-size chunks. Add the potatoes to the bowl along with the hot vinegar dressing and parsley. Toss gently and adjust the seasoning with salt and black pepper, to taste. Serve the potato salad immediately or while still warm.

MOM'S GERMAN POTATO SALAD

Steps:

• Boil potatoes until just tender when poked with a fork, but not too soft.
• When potatoes are cool, peel and slice thin.
• Add salt, pepper, and celery salt to taste.
• Add chopped onion; set aside.
• Fry bacon slowly in skillet until crisp; crumble when cool.
• In separate bowl, combine vinegar, water, and sugar.
• Add liquid to bacon in skillet.
• Blend in flour and additional salt, pepper, and celery salt to taste.
• Add potatoes and warm through.

MOMMA'S WARM POTATO SALAD

Steps:

• Place potatoes in a large saucepan; add water to cover. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cook, uncovered, 10-15 minutes or until tender. Drain potatoes and place in a large bowl. Add the eggs, celery, onion and green pepper., In a small bowl, mix the remaining ingredients; add to potato mixture. Toss gently to coat. Serve warm. Cover and refrigerate leftovers.

MAMA VI'S GERMAN STYLE HOT POTATO SALAD

Steps:

• Premeasure vinegar, water, sugar, salt and pepper and set aside for later use.
• Boil peeled potatoes until done but firm, not mushy. Drain off water and remove potatoes from hot pan to avoid overcooking the potatoes in the pan that is still hot.
• Let potatoes cool on a plate.
• In a large skillet, fry bacon until crisp and golden brown. Remove bacon and set aside on paper towel to drain. Retain 1/2 cup plus 3 tablespoons of the bacon fat after frying the bacon. Set aside.
• Beat 5 eggs well and set aside in the refrigerator until ready to use.
• Reheat 3 tablespoons of the retained bacon fat in the same skillet you fried the bacon.
• Fry the diced onions in the bacon fat until onions are part way translucent.
• When onion is half done but not fully soft, remove from frying pan and set aside.
• Temporarily remove skillet with residual bacon drippings from heat.
• The assembly from here on will go fast.
• In final serving dish where you have your sliced potatoes, add and distribute evenly the onions over potatoes. Set aside potatoes and onions for now.
• Reheat skillet to medium high heat and add back 1/2 cup bacon fat to the skillet over medium-high heat.
• Remove beaten eggs from refrigerator and have ready the liquid ingredients (water and vinegar) and dry ingredients (sugar, salt and pepper). You will need them for next step.
• When bacon fat is hot stir in the vinegar and water. Keep stirring while the liquid heats up, and as it is heating, add the sugar. Keep stirring to dissolve the sugar and to heat the liquid uniformly.
• You now have done all but the final step and have your salad dressing base ready to add the egg.
• Reduce heat to medium and stirring vigorously whisk in, a little at a time, the already beaten eggs, working egg into the hot liquid. Don't do it too fast or the egg will coagulate.
• Finally continue to stir, and again reduce heat under dressing to between medium and low (high simmer) and continue to stir until the dressing reduces and thickens, taking on the consistency of thin mayonnaise.
• Add salt and pepper; stir.
• To the potatoes and onions in the serving platter, put back bacon bits over the top of the potatoes.
• Pour hot dressing over the potatoes. onion and bacon in the serving dish.
• Toss all lightly to coat, without excessively breaking the potatoes.
• Serve immediately.
• Excellent served with juicy steaming links of boiled polish sausage.

HOT GERMAN POTATO SALAD

Steps:

• In 3-quart saucepan, place potatoes; add enough water just to cover potatoes. Heat to boiling. Reduce heat to low. Cover and cook 30 to 35 minutes or until potatoes are tender; drain. Let stand until cool enough to handle. Cut potatoes into 3/4-inch dice.
• Meanwhile, in 10-inch skillet, cook bacon over medium heat 7 to 8 minutes, stirring occasionally, until crisp. Remove bacon from skillet with slotted spoon; drain on paper towels.
• Cook onion in bacon fat in skillet over medium heat 3 to 5 minutes, stirring occasionally, until tender. Stir in sugar, flour, salt, celery seed and pepper; cook 1 minute, stirring constantly.
• Stir water and vinegar into onion mixture. Heat to boiling over high heat, stirring constantly. Boil and stir 2 to 3 minutes or until thickened.
• Reduce heat to medium. Stir in potatoes and cook, stirring gently to coat potatoes, until hot and bubbling. Top with bacon. Serve warm.

TRADITIONAL GERMAN WARM POTATO SALAD

Steps:

• Place potatoes into a large pot and cover with salted water; bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer until tender, 30 to 40 minutes. Drain. Cool until easily handled, about 5 minutes. Peel while still warm. Cut into thin slices and put in a large bowl. Add onion.
• Mix hot broth with vinegar, oil, salt, and sugar. Pour immediately over warm potatoes and onion; the potatoes need to still be warm so they can absorb the dressing better. Allow to stand for 5 minutes; season with salt and pepper. Sprinkle with chopped chives and serve warm.

HOT GERMAN POTATO SALAD

Steps:

• Place potatoes in large bowl; set aside.
• Cook and stir bacon in skillet on medium heat to desired crispness. Remove bacon from skillet; drain, reserving 2 Tbsp. drippings in skillet. Set bacon aside.
• Add onion and celery to skillet; cook and stir until celery is crisp-tender. Blend in flour. Stir in water, vinegar, sugar, salt, pepper and bacon. Bring to boil. Cook on medium heat 5 minutes or until thickened, stirring occasionally. Pour over potatoes; mix lightly. Serve warm.