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My Easy Potato Salad Recipe is super simple to make and so creamy! This is a straightforward Instant Pot potato salad with eggs, onions, celery, and the perfect blend of seasonings. It's ready to enjoy in under 40 minutes!
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- How to Make Potato Salad in the Instant Pot
- Recipe Tips
- Is potato salad gluten-free?
- Vegan Instructions
- What to Serve with Potato Salad
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- Easy Potato Salad Recipe (Instant Pot)
Instant Pot Potato Salad
One of my favorite side dishes to make from scratch is potato salad. Everyone likes their potato salad a little different: with vinegar, with mayonnaise, with or without eggs. It's easy to customize homemade potato salad rather than buying it at the store!
Instant Pot Potato Salad is a simple solution to making potato salad at home and customizing it just how your family likes it. It's easy, time-saving, and the results are a creamy potato salad everyone will love! Perfect for weekdays, picnics, or the holidays, like Easter.
All you need is a few simple ingredients, Instant Pot, knife, and potato peeler. Or, if you like the skins on, leave the skins on! That's the beauty of homemade potato salad and this easy recipe.
FAQs about Pressure Cooker Potato Salad
Whether you remove the skins from your potatoes is entirely up to preference. You can boil potatoes with the skin on or off for potato salad with the only difference being texture. I peel my potatoes, but some enjoy potato salad with the skins on. If you're using small red potatoes or Yukon gold potatoes, the skins can add a nice color and texture to the dish, so leave them on if you prefer.
Vinegar adds a punch of flavor to potato salad, in addition to keeping the potatoes from drying out and helping them hold their shape.
For making potato salad, it is better to cut up your potatoes rather than leaving them whole.
Potato salad can become watery and runny if you mix your other ingredients into the potatoes before allowing them to cool. Drain and cool the potatoes immediately after cooking them, and make sure they are cooled down enough before mixing your other ingredients in.
Easy Potato Salad Ingredients
- Medium-size potatoes (Yukon gold is best)
- Mayonnaise
- Vinegar
- Salt and pepper
- Sugar
- Celery
- Onions
- Eggs
- Water
- Fresh chives
When making homemade potato salad, you can customize it as much as you like. Use red or gold potatoes, leave out or include the eggs, mix in extras - whatever you enjoy most! I only recommend keeping the potato, vinegar, and water ratio the same, unless you're accustomed to making potato salad from scratch already.
How to Make Potato Salad in the Instant Pot
- Wash and dry potatoes, then peel and cut into 1 to 2-inch pieces. Add prepared potatoes to the bottom of Instant Pot with water and whole eggs. Pressure cook for 4 minutes on high, then quick release when 4 minutes is up.
- Remove the eggs and place them in an ice bath for 5 minutes. Meanwhile, drain water from the potatoes and place the pot in the refrigerator to cool.
- Wash celery and thinly slice, then cut onions into small pieces. Finally, peel the cooled eggs and cut them into small pieces, leaving one for garnish if desired. Once your potatoes are cooled down, add the celery, onion, and eggs to the pot.
- Combine mayonnaise, vinegar, salt, sugar, and pepper in a bowl and mix until creamy. Pour the dressing over top your potato mixture and mix together well.
- Garnish with fresh chives and egg slices if using. Serve chilled, and enjoy!
Recipe Tips
- Using vinegar will help the potatoes keep their shape, so don't skip out on adding it.
- Make sure not to mix the other ingredients into the potatoes while they're still hot. Drain and cool them first, then add everything together.
- The beauty of this recipe is that it hard boils the eggs with the potatoes. However, you can leave the eggs out if you don't like eggs in potato salad.
Is potato salad gluten-free?
Potato salad is completely gluten-free. You will not need to alter my easy potato salad recipe in any way to make it gluten-free.
Vegan Instructions
To make this potato salad recipe vegan, leave out the eggs and use vegan spread instead of mayonnaise.
What to Serve with Potato Salad
Serve potato salad with a classic spread for holidays like Easter, with ham, carrots, and biscuits. Or, serve it on the weekdays as a side dish for BBQ, with sandwiches, or as part of a picnic! Potato salad is a versatile dish and pairs well with so many kinds of foods!
Easy Potato Side Dishes
- Au Gratin Potatoes
- Easy Scalloped Potatoes
- Greek Potato Salad
- Garlic Mashed Potatoes
- Sweet Potato Casserole with Pecans
Instant Pot Side Dishes
- Instant Pot Risotto
- Instant Pot Stuffing
- Instant Pot Rice
- Instant Pot Corn on the Cob
- Pressure Cooker Green Beans
Try my Cucumber Tomato Feta Salad next!
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Easy Potato Salad Recipe (Instant Pot)
Equipment
- Potato peeler
Ingredients
- 5-6 medium potatoes I recommend gold or red small potatoes cut into 1 to 2-inch equal pieces
- 1 cup mayonnaise or vegan spread if making vegan potato salad
- 2 Tablespoons vinegar
- 1½ teaspoons salt
- ¼ teaspoon pepper
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1 cup celery thinly sliced
- ½ cup onions chopped into small pieces
- 4 eggs optional
- 1 cup water
- Fresh chives chopped, to taste (optional)
Instructions
- Wash and dry potatoes, then peel and cut into 1 to 2-inch pieces. Add prepared potatoes to the bottom of Instant Pot with water and whole eggs. Pressure cook for 4 minutes on high, then quick release when 4 minutes is up.5-6 medium potatoes, 4 eggs, 1 cup water
- Remove the eggs and place them in an ice bath for 5 minutes. Meanwhile, drain water from the potatoes and place the pot in the refrigerator to cool.
- Wash celery and thinly slice, then cut onions into small pieces. Finally, peel the cooled eggs and cut them into small pieces, leaving one for garnish if desired. Once your potatoes are cooled down, add the celery, onion, and eggs to the pot.1 cup celery, ½ cup onions
- Combine mayonnaise, vinegar, salt, sugar, and pepper in a bowl and mix until creamy. Pour the dressing over top your potato mixture and mix together well. Garnish with fresh chives and egg slices if using. Serve chilled, and enjoy!1 cup mayonnaise, 1½ teaspoons salt, ¼ teaspoon pepper, 1 teaspoon sugar, 2 Tablespoons vinegar
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Notes
- Using vinegar will help the potatoes keep their shape, so don't skip out on adding it.
- Make sure not to mix the other ingredients into the potatoes while they're still hot. Drain and cool them first, then add everything together.
- The beauty of this recipe is that it hard boils the eggs with the potatoes. However, you can leave the eggs out if you don't like eggs in potato salad.
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