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This red potato salad with bacon is loaded with flavor and perfect for your next potluck or picnic. This loaded potato salad recipe includes all your favorite baked potato fixings including sour cream, cheese and green onion but also contains a surprise ingredient in the dressing!

Loaded Red Potato Salad

This red potato salad with bacon is loaded with flavor and perfect for your next potluck or picnic. This loaded potato salad recipe includes all your favorite baked potato fixings including sour cream, cheese and green onion but also contains a surprise ingredient in the dressing!

Course Side Dish
Keyword bacon, cookout, potato salad, potluck recipes, side dish, summer salad, summer side dish
Prep Time 3 hours
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 3 hours 20 minutes
Servings 10 servings
Author Emilie at FindingZest.com

Ingredients

  • 3 pounds red potatoes washed and cut into bite sided chunks
  • 5 stalks green onion diced
  • 4 hard boiled eggs peeled and chopped
  • 1/2 pound bacon approx. 7 to 8 slices, chopped and cooked
  • 1 and 1/2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
  • 1/2 cup mayonnaise
  • 1/3 cup sour cream
  • 2/3 cup Cesar dressing
  • salt and pepper to taste

Instructions

  1. Add potatoes to large pot and fill with cold water until all potatoes are covered. Add salt if desired to flavor potatoes.
  2. Heat to boiling. Simmer.until potatoes are tender when pierced with a fork. (Approximately 5 to 8 minutes, depending upon size.)
  3. Drain and cool potatoes.
  4. Add potatoes, onion, eggs, bacon, and cheddar cheese to large bowl. Reserve some green onion, cheese and bacon for garnish.
  5. Mix together mayo, sour cream, Cesar dressing and salt and pepper taste.
  6. Gently stir ingredients together. Transfer potato salad and garnish to fridge to cool at least 2 hours or until ready to serve.
  7. Top with reserved green onion, cheddar cheese and bacon before serving.