Bacon Ranch Potato Salad
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Last summer I discovered this fantastic bacon ranch potato salad from Kraft. It is fabulous for barbecues and picnics and is simple to prepare. I’ve made it several times since and because it is such a family favorite, I wanted to share. If you want to add more color to your salad, you can use more than one color of sweet pepper. For this time I used half of a red pepper and half of a yellow pepper. I love the way it brightens up this salad!
I’ve made a few changes to suit my family’s tastes. Feel free to switch out ingredients for your favorites such as using red onion instead of green onion, add celery or even broccoli. The only thing you won’t want to skip is the delicious dressing, potatoes and bacon. Because you know, bacon makes everything better! It really adds so much to the salad.
Bacon Ranch Potato Salad
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup MIRACLE WHIP Dressing
- 1/4 cup KRAFT Classic Ranch Dressing
- 1/4 tsp. black pepper
- 1/8 tsp. garlic powder
- 3 lb. small red potatoes approx. 9, cooked, quartered
- 6 slices cooked OSCAR MAYER Bacon
- 1 medium chopped sweet pepper orange, red or yellow
- 4 green onions sliced
Instructions
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In large bowl, whisk Miracle Whip, ranch, pepper and garlic powder until blended.
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Add vegetables and four slices of bacon, crumbled.
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Gently stir.
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Serve immediately or chill.
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Crumble remaining two pieces of bacon over the top right before serving.
You won’t be able to resist the combination of red potatoes, bacon and ranch in this bacon ranch potato salad. And because you don’t have to peel the potatoes, it is quick to prepare. If you manage to keep any for leftovers, know that it tastes just as good the second day as the first.
See the original recipe from Kraft.
YUM! Looks and sounds delicious!
I love this! I make a similar BLT salad minus the Miracle Whip and homemade buttermilk ranch dressing (LOVE).
Yummy!! I had a baked potato salad at a picnic last year and loved it, I was just thinking I needed to find a recipe for that. I will definitely be trying this one out (either for our upcoming soccer campout or mothers day family get together!). Thanks so much for sharing.
Yum! This looks fantastic. I love that it’s mostly ingredients I usually have in the pantry/fridge, too.
I need to try this but i’ll have to make a double batch for my family.
Looks delicious, great twist from original potato salad. I’m not a fan of Miracle Whip so I would use Mayonnaise instead
This looks so good! I love new recipes. Pinning now Thanks!
this lokks so good i will try it
I can’t wait to make this!
This looks so creamy and good. Another great one to print and make soon. You have some awesome recipes on your blog. I have such a stack of recipes to try…about time too because I am tired of the same old things.
Anything with miracle whip and bacon in it my husband will totally love.
It looks delicious! I can’t wait to try this one, always looking for new recipes to try on the family.
hmmm I never thought of adding the salad dressing- it looks soo good I would like to have this now!!! It would definitely make the potato salad special – I can’t wait to try it!
Bacon seems to be the fad these days . Bacon everything. We love bacon in our house We also love salads too, so this recipe is going to a good one for us. Cant wait to make it for supper. Thanks for the recipe
Always have potato salad when have a cook out. This would be ay yummy surprise for the next one we have.
This looks so yummy! I don’t like traditional potatoe salad, but I love every ingredient in this salad! I will definitely be making this 🙂
This recipe looks very tasty. Thanks for sharing!
It is so awesome to see a potato salad that has this much color – for sure have to add bacon to my potato salad next time – why didn’t I think of that?
That looks so good! Perfect for summer BBQs!
Potato salad seems like a staple in the summer time. Thanks for sharing your twist with Idea Box.