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 Time3hours
Cook Time20minutes
Total Time3hours20minutes
Servings10servings
AuthorEmilie at FindingZest.com
Ingredients
3poundsred potatoeswashed and cut into bite sided chunks
5stalks green oniondiced
4hard boiled eggspeeled and chopped
1/2poundbaconapprox. 7 to 8 slices, chopped and cooked
1and 1/2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
1/2cupmayonnaise
1/3cupsour cream
2/3cupCesar dressing
salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
Add potatoes to large pot and fill with cold water until all potatoes are covered. Add salt if desired to flavor potatoes.
Heat to boiling. Simmer.until potatoes are tender when pierced with a fork. (Approximately 5 to 8 minutes, depending upon size.)
Drain and cool potatoes.
Add potatoes, onion, eggs, bacon, and cheddar cheese to large bowl. Reserve some green onion, cheese and bacon for garnish.
Mix together mayo, sour cream, Cesar dressing and salt and pepper taste.
Gently stir ingredients together. Transfer potato salad and garnish to fridge to cool at least 2 hours or until ready to serve.
Top with reserved green onion, cheddar cheese and bacon before serving.