Our Best Potato Salad Recipes (2024)

The popular star dish shines in our variety of potato salad recipes, thanks to grilling, roasting, vegetables, cheeses, and herbs. Try Michael Anthony's Saffron Fingerling Potato Salad with Mixed Greens and Tomato or Marcus Samuelsson's Roasted Sweet Potato and Okra Salad. Your next best potato salad recipe is among these flavorful renditions.

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Grilled Potato Salad with Mustard Seeds

Chicago chef Stephanie Izard grills sliced potatoes in butter to give them an amazing crust, then dresses them with a supertangy mustard seed vinaigrette, fresh scallions, and celery.

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Potato-and-Radicchio Salad with Montasio Cheese

Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson uses Montasio, a mild Italian cow-milk cheese, for this smart, simple, rustic salad.

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Potato Salad with Bacon and Barbecue Sauce

The mayonnaise dressing for this potato salad gets pungency from mustard oil (store-bought spicy mustard works fine, too) and a hit of smoky-sweet flavor from bacon and bottled barbecue sauce.

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Potato Salad with Green Beans and Salsa Verde

A terrific salsa verde makes this velvety potato salad extraordinary. Here the salsa is made with parsley and chives; try making it with other summer herbs, like tarragon or basil, as well.

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Warm Potato Salad with Arugula

Paul Virant puts a spin on the classic summer side dish by tossing warm potatoes with a mustardy vinaigrette and handfuls of arugula.

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Creamy Cucumber and Grilled Potato Salad

"When I was a kid, my mom would marinate cucumbers, red onions and canned potatoes in jarred creamy Italian dressing," says Jamie Bissonnette. "I'm not saying she was a great cook, but creamy Italian dressing is still my favorite. I make a version of it for this salad."

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Warm Potato Salad with Pancetta and Brown Butter Dressing

Gabriel Rucker uses nutty brown butter instead of oil in a warm vinaigrette for a summer vegetable salad. For a quick take on his recipe, Grace Parisi whisks brown butter into a tangy, mustardy dressing for creamy fingerling potatoes.

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Saffron Fingerling Potato Salad with Mixed Greens and Tomato

A 2002 F&W Best New Chef, Michael Anthony includes just a few coins of tender, saffron-flavored fingerling potatoes in his 50-ingredient warm vegetable salad. Grace Parisi reimagines those fingerlings for this light, fresh take on a potato salad, tossed with fennel, tomatoes, and plenty of greens.

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Potato Salad with Champagne Vinegar

The bright acidic note of vinegar balances the buttery potatoes in Wolfgang Ban's recipe.

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Roasted Sweet Potato and Okra Salad

Marcus Samuelsson drew on African staples like yams and okra to create this completely original recipe of roasted sweet potatoes tossed with red potatoes, wilted spinach, and sautéed okra. Toasted mustard seeds and a caper vinaigrette give this delicious salad a nutty, tangy flavor.

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Tzatziki Potato Salad

Tzatziki is a traditional Greek appetizer (or meze) made with yogurt and cucumbers. Here, Grace Parisi uses it in addition to mayonnaise as the base for her incredibly tasty potato salad tossed with dill, mint, and serrano chile.

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Roasted Leek and Potato Salad

The contrasting flavors of leeks and potatoes render this a simple, yet timelessly delicious, recipe.

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Classic Potato Salad

Baby potatoes have a naturally sweet flavor and creamy texture that's delicious in this classic recipe. Even better, they hold their shape better than cut-up full-size potatoes, and there's no need to peel them. A touch of scallions and parsley make this version especially tasty.

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Potato-and-Roasted Cauliflower Salad

Cauliflower florets are a sly substitute for half of the baby potatoes in this creamy salad. The white-on-white combo gets zingy lift from briny capers, mustard and freshly grated horseradish.

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Classic Potato Salad with Crunchy Trout Roe

This potato salad gets its creamy texture from olive oil and eggs, and tons of flavor from the inclusion of tuna and salty trout roe.

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Grilled Potato Salad with Scallion Vinaigrette

Not only are the potatoes in this easy summer salad grilled, but the scallions in the tangy, spicy dressing are grilled, too.

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Ham-and-Potato Salad

In his elevated version of potato salad, star chef José Andrés combines fingerling potatoes, smoky ham, and cucumbers in a whipped deviled egg dressing.

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Roasted Corn & Potato Salad

This no-fuss salad mixes roasted corn with potatoes in a creamy, slightly spicy dressing for a distinctive and flavorful combination.

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