The best homemade potato salad recipe needs the best potatoes.
Now, most people think russet potatoes make a good choice. They’re easy to find, cost-effective, and versatile. They’re great as leftovers. Russets make delicious french fries, tater tots, hash browns, breakfast potatoes and more.
But for potato salad? Nah. Without the right potatoes, you might as well not make it at all.
What are the right potatoes? Yukon Gold and red skins top the list.
Potatoes are indeed high in carbs, about 26 grams for a medium potato, and that makes some people avoid them. But the tubers have many health benefits. Potatoes are high in fiber, potassium, and vitamins B6 and C. These nutrients help keep cholesterol in check, flush sodium out of your body, and act as a prebiotic, which helps with large intestine bacteria.
Potatoes with colorful skin, like Yukon Gold and red skin, contain extra antioxidants, which help prevent cell damage linked to cancer.
That’s one of the benefits of using Yukon Gold or red skin potatoes. Here’s another good reason – their skins, which are soft enough to eat and a timesaver since you don’t have to peel potatoes. Plus, they provide color to the bowl, an essential aspect of any dish because first impressions matter. You may make the best potato salad ever, but if it looks like something a baby spits up, no one will want it.
Of course, the health benefits will give way once you add all the ingredients you need to make Auntie proud.
Yukon Golds and red skins are equal in producing outstanding potato salad. Red skins have a slight advantage if you want to make a roasted, warm homemade potato salad.
Say what?
That’s right. With holidays, cookouts, family reunions, and more around the corner, you can create various potato salad variations without resorting to tricks that would result in endless mocking from the family, like using walnuts,…
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