I followed this recipe but did some slight changes: https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/83097/authentic-german-potato-salad/
Prep Time: 15 mins
Cook Time: 25 mins
Total Time: 40 mins
Servings: 4
Ingredients
3 cups diced peeled potatoes
4 slices bacon
1 small onion, diced
¼ cup white vinegar
2 tablespoons water
1 ½ tablespoons white sugar, or more to taste
1 teaspoon salt
⅛ teaspoon ground black pepper
1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley
Directions
Gather the ingredients.
Place potatoes in a large pot and add water to cover by
at least 1 to 2 inches; bring to a boil. Cook until potatoes are easily pierced
with a fork, about 10 minutes. Drain, and set aside to cool.
While the potatoes are cooking, place bacon in a large,
deep skillet over medium-high heat. Fry until browned and crisp, 10 to 12
minutes, turning as needed. Transfer bacon to a paper towel-lined plate and
crumble when cool enough to handle. Leave bacon grease in the skillet.
Cook onion in the bacon grease over medium heat until
browned, 6 to 8 minutes. Add vinegar, sugar, water, salt, and pepper to the pan
and bring to a boil.
Onions cooking in the bacon drippings
Once boiling, add potatoes, and 1/2 of the crumbled
bacon. Cook until heated through, 3 to 4 minutes.
Transfer warm potato salad to a serving dish and sprinkle remaining bacon over top. Garnish with parsley. Serve immediately.
My Notes:
I made this for a large party (around 50 people) so I doubled the recipe. I
could have tripled the recipe and still wouldn’t have enough. This went
quickly!!!
I used red potatoes, skin on, and boiled them
for 10 minutes. Next time, I’ll boil them for 8 minutes.
I used 2 T sugar, which was the right amount IMHO.
I added 2 t. of Dijon mustard. I added some chopped chives (about 1.5 T). I saw these two ingredients listed in other German potato
salad recipes.
For the bacon (thick cut), I used a large Dutch oven since I don’t
have a deep skillet. I cut the bacon into thirds
and cooked them in two batches. Once cooled, I cut them into pieces instead of crumbling them.
I placed the vinegar, sugar, water, salt, pepper and
Dijon in a measuring cup, stirring to combine, and then poured all of it into
the Dutch oven.
This is definitely a keeper!
