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Best Ever Potato Salad

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Best Ever Potato Salad – loaded with bacon, chives, cheese, and ranch seasoning, this potato salad will become a traditional family barbecue recipe.

This sour cream potato salad is my absolute favorite. It truly is the best potato salad! It’s the perfect side dish for all of your summer BBQs, potlucks, and parties.

BEST EVER POTATO SALAD RECIPE, bacon, chives, cheddar cheese in white bowl with wooden spoon

Grateful to be collaborating with Safeway today to bring you this Best Ever Potato Salad Recipe. All opinions expressed are my own.

I love spring and fall. Besides the gorgeous weather, sunshine, and flowers in full bloom, I love barbecue season. Now don’t get confused, I hate grilling, I leave that to my husband, the Grill Master. What I love most about barbecue are all the side dishes like this amazing potato salad I’m sharing today.

BEST EVER POTATO SALAD RECIPE, bacon, chives, cheddar cheese in white bowl with wooden spoon

I’ve never had a traditional dish that I always take to barbecues, and that has always bummed me out. Do you know what I mean? You see, I have friends and family members that everyone always requests they bring the same dishes to parties and barbecues.

For instance, my mom is always asked to bring Watergate Salad, my dad, his 7-Layer Dip and for my sister, Nicole, it’s her Deviled Eggs. Because of my job as a food blogger, I feel it’s important that I have a signature dish. And today friends, I have found that dish with this Best Ever Potato Salad!

BEST EVER POTATO SALAD RECIPE, bacon, chives, cheddar cheese in white bowl

Ingredients You’ll Need

A twist on the traditional potato salad, this Best Ever Potato Salad is fully loaded. I was inspired in making this dish after making my Fully Loaded Ranch Dip. It has many of the same ingredients:

  • Signature Farms red potatoes
  • Sour cream
  • Signature Kitchens extra virgin olive oil
  • Ranch seasoning powder
  • Chopped fresh chives
  • Signature SELECT bacon
  • grated sharp cheddar cheese

When you make this, I can promise you’ll be in love after just one bite. After devouring the first serving, you’ll quickly run back for another.

How do you make Best Ever Potato Salad?

  • Cook bacon according to package directions.
  • Once completely cooked & cooled, coarsely chop into small chunks.
  • In a small mixing bowl, stir together sour cream, mayo, cheese, coarsely chopped bacon, chives, and ranch seasoning powder {start with 1/4 cup & add more if you desire a stronger ranch taste, we use 1/2 cup, which sounds like a lot but once it is all together it is perfect}. Set aside.
  • Place potatoes in a large pot of boiling water, add salt if desired.
  • Bring to a boil and let them simmer 8-12 minutes, or until potatoes are tender or easy to pierce with a fork.
  • Drain the potatoes and allow to completely cool. I rinse the potatoes with cold water to stop the cooking process and speed up the cooling.
  • Once potatoes are completely cool add the sour cream mixture; stir together to combine.
  • Add salt and pepper to taste.
  • Cover and set in the fridge until ready to serve.
  • If you would like your potato salad a little less chunky, use an electric mixer and beat the potato salad on medium for 1-2 minutes. This will break up any large chunks, and give you a smoother texture. I do this to make the potato salad a little more creamy but left enough chunks to give it some depth.

How do you store potato salad?

To maximize the shelf life of potato salad for safety and quality, refrigerate the potato salad in airtight containers.

Properly stored, potato salad will last for 3 to 5 days in the refrigerator.

Everyone Loves this Side Dish

My sister, who isn’t the biggest bacon fan {gasp, I know, people like that do exist}, even liked it – eating more than one serving.

My kids loved it because it had bacon, so a win there! And well, I couldn’t stop eating it. Now, you’d think I’m a big potato salad fan, but really I’m not. Usually, potato salads are overdressed with mayo and mustard. While this Best Ever Potato Salad Recipe is still creamy, it’s seasoned and dressed just perfectly.

I love to shop at Safeway quality products like their Signature Farms Bacon to be the star of the potato salad, but grabbed Signature Kitchens Olive Oil Mayo, cheese, chives, and my potatoes too.

Everything else I already had on hand and I am sure you will too, like the ranch seasoning and sour cream.

I am excited, friends, for you to make this Best Ever Potato Salad for your next barbecue. Who knows, it may also become the dish that everyone asks you to bring to the next party. Enjoy! XOXO San

BEST EVER POTATO SALAD RECIPE, bacon, chives, cheddar cheese in white bowl

More Amazing Side Dishes

This potato salad is so simple to make and check out just how easy it is.

Don’t forget to pin this Best Ever Potato Salad recipe to your favorite Pinterest board for later.

potato salad collage image with green onion, bacon and cheddar cheese

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4.75 from 27 votes

Best Ever Potato Salad

Best Ever Potato Salad - loaded with bacon, chives, cheese, and ranch seasoning, this potato salad will become a traditional family barbecue recipe.
Prep Time40 mins
Total Time40 mins
Course: Salad, Side Dish
Cuisine: American
Keyword: bacon cheddar potato salad, best potato salad, sour cream potato salad
Servings: 10
Calories: 531kcal
Author: Sandra

Ingredients

  • 3 lbs. Signature Farms Red Potatoes skin peeled and diced
  • 1 1/4 cup sour cream
  • 1/2 cup Signature Kitchens Extra Virgin Olive Oil Mayo
  • 1/4 -1/2 cup ranch seasoning powder
  • 1/2 cup chives finely chopped
  • 1 lb. Signature SELECT bacon
  • 16 ounces freshly grated sharp cheddar cheese

Instructions

  • Cook bacon according to package directions. Once completely cooked & cooled, coarsely chop into small chunks.
  • In a small mixing bowl, stir together sour cream, mayo, cheese, coarsely chopped bacon, chives, and ranch seasoning powder {start with 1/4 cup & add more if you desire a stronger ranch taste, we use 1/2 cup, sounds like a lot but once it is all together it is perfect}. Set aside.
  • Place potatoes in a large pot of boiling water, add salt if desired. Bring to a boil and let them simmer 8-12 minutes, or until potatoes are tender or easy to pierce with a fork.
  • Drain the potatoes and allow to completely cool. I rinse the potatoes with cold water to stop the cooking process and speed up the cooling.
  • Once potatoes are completely cool add the sour cream mixture; stir together to combine.
  • Add salt and pepper to taste. Cover and set in the fridge until ready to serve.
  • If you would like your potato salad a little less chunky, use an electric mixer and beat the potato salad on medium for 1-2 minutes. This will break up any large chunks, and give you a smoother texture. I do this to make the potato salad a little more creamy but left enough chunks to give it some depth.

Notes

Recipe adapted from Southwestern Potato Salad

Nutrition

Calories: 531kcal | Carbohydrates: 25g | Protein: 20g | Fat: 39g | Saturated Fat: 19g | Cholesterol: 93mg | Sodium: 668mg | Potassium: 805mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 4g | Vitamin A: 745IU | Vitamin C: 13.1mg | Calcium: 376mg | Iron: 1.6mg

This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Albertsons Companies. The opinions and text are all mine.

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Comments

  1. Tarrant says

    Is 1/2 cup correct for the ranch seasoning? That seems like an awful lot to me. I use 1 packet in 5 lbs of potatoes for potato salad and sometimes even that is a bit heavy. The cheese and bacon additions sound delicious.

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  2. Daniel says

    At what point are chives added? I see them in the recipe list but I don’t see when you should add them.

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  3. Sharon King says

    I would love to try this only with Idaho russet potatoes. I’m not a big fan of red potatoes or even Yukon golds. I think I would go half and half with the mayo and sour cream which I’ve never used sour cream in potato salad but the bacon, chives and cheddar cheese sounds so good I may have to try this. Could you use miracle whip instead of mayo since I always use miracle whip? I guess I’ll just have to wing it. Sounds and looks so good, this is one of, if not my favorite dishes.

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  5. Connie Roberts says

    I’m a big fan of potato salads. I have one that I’m asked to bring or make all the time but I’m getting sick of it! Your recipe looks delicious. I really like the idea of blending it a bit at the end.

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  8. Jen says

    I usually just buy store bought, but this looks ah-mazing! I need to try this and make this my new go-to recipe this summer!

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  13. Suzette says

    My friend made this recipe for a potluck and I had to get the recipe from her! It’s so delicious!! Thanks. Now I’m making for an Independence Day picnic tomorrow! 🙂

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  14. Anniemoe says

    What a definite changeup than the old classic potato salad on the best foods jar. I made this today and it is delicious! My son likes it better than the classic.
    I only added 1/4 c. of the dressing mix and added a lil pepper ….no salt. A definite do-over recipe. Thank you for this!! A definite 5 Star !!

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  21. Eve says

    5 stars
    I used to make the regular yellow potato salad and just made this for Christmas. Now I’m in charge of making it when we have nothing else.. It’s sad because my mother passed this month before she could try it this year. So thank you so much.

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  33. Beth says

    5 stars
    So delicious and our new favorite! Such a big hit during our BBQ this weekend! I’ll definitely be making this again!

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