Hot Potato Salad (German style) is a home-style dish, usually served as a side with sausages and other pork dishes. It is made from boiled potatoes, and other ingredients such as an egg with vinegar dressing, bacon bits, onion, and spiced mustard.
Hot potato salad is a popular dish in German cuisine, a variation of the classic potato salad. The dish is made with boiled potatoes and eggs, to which sliced pickles are added. Seasonings such as mayonnaise and mustard are usually added as well. This salad is usually served warm or hot, however, it can be refrigerated and eaten cold as well.
If you love potatoes, there’s no better way to serve them than this hot potato salad recipe. Our Hot Potato Salad (German Style) makes a fabulous side dish for any meal or is great as a whole meal on its own. Hot potato salad is a traditional German dish – add savory bacon and our homemade blend of spices and vinegar, then cook it all together until the flavors blend into an unforgettable flavor explosion!
Hot Potato Salad (German Style)
Ingredients
- 2½ gal or 12 lbs. Potato peeled cubed
- 2 gal Water
- 2 tbsp Salt
- 1½ lbs. Bacon raw
- 2 cups Onion chopped
- 3 cup Celery chopped
- 2 tbsp Salt
- 1/8 tbsp Ground black pepper
- 1 cup Rendered bacon fat
- 1½ cup Water
- 3 cup Distilled vinegar
- 1 cup Sugar
- ½ tbsp Mustard dry
Instructions
- Cover potatoes with water; bring to a boil; add salt; cover. Cook until tender. Drain well. Set aside for use in Step 2.
- Cook bacon until crisp. Drain; combine bacon with potatoes. Set bacon fat aside for use in Step 4.
- Carefully mix potato and bacon mixture with onions, celery, salt, and pepper.
- Combine bacon fat, water, vinegar, sugar, and mustard; heat to boiling point.
- Pour hot mixture over potato mixture; combine carefully.
- Pour 2 gal 2 cup mixture into each pan.
- Place in oven at 350 F. for 15 minutes or until thoroughly heated. Serve hot. CCP: Hold for service at 140 F. or higher.