I'm looking for a good recipe for German potato salad. Not the hot one but cold; made with vinegar and maybe alittle oil, NO mayo. There's plenty on the net, but still haven't found the right one yet. Would have some bacon and maybe some onion in it too. Thanks guys!

Never really cared that much for the side, but I do wonder whether the idea originated in Germany, or here in the US...

My great-Aunt made the best German potato salad I've ever had. I asked her for the recipe and she said she just made it until it tasted right...

PS- Her's had more than "some" bacon in it.

Not my recipe, but rather a recipe from the most amazing group of Mennonite ladies. DELICIOUS!

http://www.mennonitegirlscancook.ca/2010/11/hot-german-potatoe-salad.html


Sometimes I just want something a little different to serve as a side dish besides the same old usual fare that I always make. Then I was reminded of this dish I had as a young married woman eager to learn all the tricks of the trade in the kitchen.

I used to work in an Elderly Person Care Home for 15 years, and we had amazing cooks there, who cooked home made food that was familiar to the people that lived there.
One of the things I really enjoyed was when they served Hot German Potato Salad. This was not something that my mother made so I asked for the recipe and got the usual reply. 'Oh, a little of this and a handful of that'......sheesh, I was a new aspiring cook, I needed more details than that. What in the world does a little of this or that even mean? With many years of cooking experience, I now know what she means and I tried to recreate it and this is what I came up with. Just a little different than the same old...

•1/2 lb of bacon
•6 green onions, sliced
•1 small green pepper, chopped
•6 cups potatoes, cooked and sliced
•1/3 cup vinegar
•1 teaspoon salt
•1 teaspoon sugar
•lots of pepper, to taste
•1 egg, beaten

1.Fry chopped bacon until crisp; add onion and green pepper.
2.Drain at least 1/2 the fat.
3.Mix vinegar, seasonings and egg; stir into bacon.
4.Stir in potatoes and heat through.
5.Enjoy with some smoked sausage or ham, cole slaw and baked beans

Miss Lynn... When is the kartoffelsalat going to be ready? You have my saliva glands running....

That sounds GOOD!

I'm on a low carb. diet, and make 'tater salad with diced turnips instead of of dice potatoes.

Might have to try this recipe using turnips!

Virgil B.

Thanks for the recipe ML.

Being a German potato salad, me thinks a nice brown mustard should be incorporated.

At least, the last cold - prepped one I indulged in, did.

I used to love a deli on E. 55th St between Park & Madison named Conrad's (right next to a Duane Reade Rx). Sadly, now closed. I'd be there about 11:30am when the German Potato Salad was still warm. The Russian ladies in their red aprons would dish me up some of that with my personally designed Egg Salad & Lox on Marble Rye with lettuce & tomato. I washed that down with a Yoo-Hoo and rice pudding for dessert.

As they say in NYC, "To die for."

Bear, fist off, Lynn's recipe sounds good. One of my Canadian friends is married to a woman from East Germany. We have eaten her potato salad many times. I asked about her recipe, and was told she does not have written recipe, just makes it as she goes.

Part of the fun, trying out different ways?

Miss Lynn, thank you. That is going in my recipe folder. Cheers for a nice weekend.

Originated there I think, sse. I've had it in Germany and Austria, and other countries in Europe, for that matter.