Bacon Chipotle Potato Salad

Bacon Chipotle Potato Salad

Bruce and I threw a backyard barbecue with family and friends on Saturday afternoon. While playing ladder golf, darts, laughing, joking and most likely making our neighbors seriously annoyed, I spent a bit of time tending to the barbecue. I barbecued my apricot pork ribs while others pitched in with sides of fresh picked white corn, baked beans, watermelon, cherries, green salad, and cornbread. In addition to the apricot pork ribs, I made a batch of my Bacon Chipotle Potato Salad. My Bacon Chipotle Potato Salad is a tasty twist on the classic American potato salad. My Bacon Chipotle Potato Salad has a wonderful smokey bacon flavor and then kicked up in flavor with fiery chipotle peppers in adobo sauce. It’s not your average potato salad. It’s just simply delicious! Enjoy! Tessa

Ingredients:

5 pounds potatoes (boiled, cooled, peeled and coarsely chopped)
8 slices bacon (cooked and crumbled)
1 cup chopped celery
1/2 cup minced sweet onion
6 Tbs apple cider vinegar
1 1/2 cup mayonnaise
1 Tbs chipotle pepper in adobo (minced)
1 Tbs Dijon mustard
2 tsp smoked salt or to taste
1 tsp black pepper or to taste
1/4 tsp smoked paprika
garnish with fresh snipped chives and pinches of paprika

Add potatoes, bacon, celery and onions to an extra large mixing bowl. Lightly toss. In a medium mixing bowl whisk together the apple cider vinegar, mayonnaise, chipotle pepper, Dijon mustard, smoked salt, black pepper and smoked paprika. If you have any bacon grease leftover from the bacon, add about a tablespoon of it to the potatoes. Trust me… It adds a ton of flavor! Add the mayo mixture to potatoes. Lightly mix. Garnish with fresh snipped chives and pinches of paprika. Makes a big bowl or about 12-15 servings. Enjoy!

21 thoughts on “Bacon Chipotle Potato Salad”

cookinginsens June 19, 2012 at 4:40 am

Like. I wish you had a like button :)

Tessa Post authorJune 19, 2012 at 1:50 pm

Thank you Rosemary! I will get on that right away :).

Lasuch w kuchni June 19, 2012 at 5:57 am

Woow this salad not only looks fantastic. The list of ingredients is also very promising. yum, yum :-D

Tessa Post authorJune 19, 2012 at 1:52 pm

Thank you Joanna! It’s delish!

Raymund June 20, 2012 at 6:40 am

That alone my friend is enough for me, it looks so good and flavourful

Tessa Post authorJune 21, 2012 at 1:06 am

Thank you Raymund! Probably one of the best potato salad recipes that I have made.

Sissi June 20, 2012 at 9:21 am

Bacon and potato and you don’t need to say more to make me dream… Your potato salad looks fabulous.

Tessa Post authorJune 21, 2012 at 1:07 am

Hi Sissi! Bacon is definitely the star in this salad. Thank you!

mjskit June 20, 2012 at 2:22 pm

WOW! This does look good! With the bacon, the smoked salt and the smoked paprika, I can tell that it certainly did have a smoking flavor – which to me is GOOD thing! Great recipe! I envy your guests. :)