Instant Pot German Potato Salad

[DrQ]

I love this recipe and I modified for a pressure cooker. The Instant Pot really makes it simple. If you have an immersion blender, it is a breeze. Use Yukon Golds because they have a nice amount starch, but will not fall apart like baking potatoes.

Since there is no mayonnaise, it is stable without refrigeration for 4-6 hours. If you have leftovers, refrigerate and then gently microwave before serving.

Instant Pot German Potato Salad

Ingredients:
1 slice Bacon
2 lbs. Yukon Gold potatoes
2 Tbsp Rice wine vinegar (White wine vinegar)
1 Tbsp Sugar
1 cup Chicken stock
1 cup Water
Salt
1 Tbsp Dijon Mustard
1/4 cup Vegetable Oil
1/2 cup Red Onion, chopped fine
4 ea Petite Dill pickles, chopped fine
2 Tbsp Chives, chopped
Ground Black Pepper

Prep:
Cut potatoes into 1 inch pieces. Dice Red Onion, Pickles and Chives and place in a bowl. Use kitchen scissors to cut the bacon into small pieces.

Instructions:

1. Preheat the Instant Pot on Sauté or Brown (Depending on what kind you have). Put the bacon in the pot and render the fat until the bacon is slightly crisp. Remove and reserve fat.
2. Put in potatoes, water, chicken stock, 1 Tbsp vinegar, sugar and 1 tsp salt in the pot. Cook at HIGH pressure for 3 minutes. Quick release at the end of the cycle.
3. The potatoes should be tender so that the point of a knife will insert easily into the potatoes. Simmer for 2 minutes to reduce the sauce. Reserve 1/2 cup of the boiling liquid and drain the potatoes in a strainer.
4. In the empty pot, combine 1 Tbsp of the reserved bacon fat add vegetable oil to make 1/4 cup. Add mustard, 1 Tbsp vinegar and the reserved boiling liquid. Whisk.
5. Take 1/2 cup of the potatoes and mash them smoothly in the vinaigrette which was made in the previous step.
6. Stir the bacon, pickles, onions and chives into the mixture. Add salt and pepper to taste.
7. Gently stir the remaining potatoes into the sauce and make sure it is evenly mixed without breaking the potatoes too much.
8. Serve warm.

 

[Passepartout]

Thanks. I'll try this. I like Kartoffelsalat after a stint in a German hospital- it was served most every day. Also always on the lookout for Instant Pot recipes that use fairly common ingredients- as so many use more ingredients than I commonly keep around.

 

[DrQ]

We went to a German restaurant in Fredericksburg TX. I ordered german potato salad to go with the meal and I swear it was Read's out of the can (paint me ... disappointed )

 

[Passepartout]

We went to a German restaurant in Fredericksburg TX. I ordered german potato salad to go with the meal and I swear it was Read's out of the can (paint me ... disappointed )

You mean that commercial American potato salad server by a German is NOT German Potato salad? Imagine that! With no disrespect intended to perfectly lovely German people, I would get darn tired of their cuisine. Cold cuts. Sausages. Sliced cheeses. Dark breads so dense that a slice weighs about 1/4 lb. Pickles- sweet gherkin pickles. Big, bread-y pretzels. Sauerkraut. Sweetened yogurt. Oh, and warmish German potato salad. And lager beer by the liter.

Jim

 

[DrQ]

With no disrespect intended to perfectly lovely German people, I would get darn tired of their cuisine. Cold cuts. Sausages. Sliced cheeses. Dark breads so dense that a slice weighs about 1/4 lb. Pickles- sweet gherkin pickles. Big, bread-y pretzels. Sauerkraut. Sweetened yogurt. Oh, and warmish German potato salad. And lager beer by the liter.

LOL I get your point, but I grew in Chicago and there was no lack of cuisine variety. There, if I wanted German/Czech/Polish food, I just had to go a town or two over, not 100 miles! Yes, there are a few German restaurants in the area, but not near the variety.

Cabbage rolls, stuffed peppers, goulash is what I would like to see too. We mainly see schnitzel and sausages. Sometimes sauerbraten and rolladen. Don't get me started about finding a good Dusseldorf mustard.

No, I wouldn't want a constant diet of it either, but it would we nice to have an option.

 

[Carol C]

How much pot do you put in it? I didn't see it in your list of ingredients.

 

[DrQ]

How much pot do you put in it? I didn't see it in your list of ingredients.

We can hash that out in another thread, but as much as you want.