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  5. Complete Your Summer Barbecue with These Tasty Potato Salad Recipes

Complete Your Summer Barbecue with These Tasty Potato Salad Recipes

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By Southern Living Editors Updated March 15, 2022
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Grilled Potato Salad
Credit: Victor Protasio; Food Styling: Kellie Kelley; Prop Styling: Kay E. Clarke

Summer picnics and barbecues aren't complete without a tasty helping of potato salad. Southerners know this staple comes in many varieties, and we're particular about our favorites. Whether you're looking for light and healthy or thick and creamy, our favorite potato salad recipes are sure to have a combination that's just right. If you're searching for a classic recipe for the family reunion, you'll love our Shout Hallelujah Potato Salad. If you want to veer from tradition, try our Warm Radish-and-Potato Salad with Smoked Trout and Radish Leaf-and-Mint Pesto for a new twist. Deviled Egg Potato Salad marries two Southern favorites for a no-fail addition to the potluck. There are also a handful of salads that will call for sweet potatoes if you want to add some color to the bowl. Take your love of potato salad to the next level and try all of our tasty recipes this season. These recipes make great accompaniments to grilled burgers,  hot dogs, or even a juicy steak.

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Garden Potato Salad

Garden Potato Salad
Credit: Photo: Helen Norman

Recipe: Garden Potato Salad

Bring out the best of your garden for this flavorful spin on a traditional potato salad recipe. New potatoes are baby spring potatoes with beautifully thin skins, and they mix beautifully with the other ingredients in this dish. We love how red-skinned potatoes contrast with vibrant green peas and herbs for a dish of visual delight, but if you aren't picky about the presentation of your potato salad, you can use any kind of potato you like. It will be a fresh and delicious dish that you can serve for lunch or dinner, picnics or parties, and will evoke a wonderful, just-picked-from-the-garden sensation.

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Shout Hallelujah Potato Salad

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Recipe: Shout Hallelujah Potato Salad

This dish is so good it has been know to make anyone who consumes it shout hallelujah. Bragging rights—which are so necessary for a dish this good—for this flavor-packed, perfectly balanced favorite go to Blair Hobbs of Oxford, Mississippi. This recipe has a long ingredients list, which is packed with good stuff: pickles, onion, bell pepper, mustard, lemon juice, and jalapeño pepper, just to name a few of the supplies you'll need in the kitchen. These ingredients all come together to form a creamy blend of snappy flavors. It's a potato salad that you'll want to make again and again.

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Big Daddy's Grilled Blue Cheese-and-Bacon Potato Salad

Carolina Blue Potato Salad
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Recipe: Big Daddy's Grilled Blue Cheese-and-Bacon Potato Salad

Big Daddy knows a thing or two about blue cheese and bacon. He knows that they are great together and even better when mixed into a potato salad. The sharp creaminess of blue cheese blends with the savory crunch of bacon and livens up the substantiality of grilled potatoes in this recipe. The potatoes are chopped and given even more textural interest with just a hint of crispness from the grill rounding out the edges. Grilling the potatoes in an easy-to-fold aluminum foil packet adds a subtle note of smoky flavor—which is so welcome in this combination of ingredients–plus it makes cleanup a breeze.

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Hot Potato Salad

Hot Potato Salad
Credit: Helen Norman

Recipe: Hot Potato Salad

Our Test Kitchen Director's grandmother, Jackie Freeman, has been making this genius recipe for decades, and it is a classic for a reason. Her family asks for it at nearly every holiday meal, and it never disappoints. This recipe is the perfect marriage of potato salad with a bubbly, cheesy gratin. The cheesy deliciousness oozes, coating the potato salad in a thick, warm, savory sauce. Cheese and potatoes? We think that there's nothing better, unless it's cheese and potatoes mixed with the rest of the ingredients listed in this recipe for Hot Potato Salad. Thank you for the recipe, Ms. Freeman.

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Instant Pot Potato Salad

Instant Pot Potato Salad
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Recipe: Instant Pot Potato Salad

You new favorite kitchen tool can do it all, including a classic Southern potato salad recipe.

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Warm Radish-and-Potato Salad with Smoked Trout and Radish Leaf-and-Mint Pesto

Warm Radish-and-Potato Salad with Smoked Trout and Radish Leaf-and-Mint Pesto
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Recipe: Warm Radish-and-Potato Salad with Smoked Trout and Radish Leaf-and-Mint Pesto

This elegant salad is beautiful enough for company but light enough for a weekday lunch.

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Red Potato Salad

Red Potato Salad
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Recipe: Red Potato Salad

We lightened up vintage mayonnaise-laden potato salad with a sour cream-and-Dijon dressing but kept it indulgent with bits of chopped bacon.

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Deviled Egg Potato Salad

Deviled Egg Potato Salad
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Recipe: Deviled Egg Potato Salad

Two Southern cookout favorites meet in this potato salad that even Mama will be happy to swap out for her old-school recipe.

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Potato Salad with Sweet Pickles

Potato Salad with Sweet Pickles
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Recipe: Potato Salad with Sweet Pickles

This potato salad recipe only calls for a few ingredients, since it gets so much zesty flavor from the addition of sweet pickles.

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Potato Salad with Dijon and Scallions

Potato Salad with Dijon and Scallions
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Recipe: Potato Salad with Dijon and Scallions

Turn your usual beige potato salad into a colorful side dish with a rainbow of fingerling potatoes.

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Southern-Style Potato Salad

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Recipe: Southern-Style Potato Salad

When it comes to potluck potato salad, this recipe is as classic as it gets.

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Tangy Potato-Green Bean Salad

Tangy Potato-Green Bean Salad
Credit: Photo: Greg DuPree; Prop Styling: Kay E. Clarke; Food Styling: Torie Cox

Recipe: Tangy Potato-Green Bean Salad

This lightened-up potato salad is tossed with a bright lemon-dill vinaigrette.

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Burn Co BBQ's Grilled Potato Salad

Grilled Potato Salad from Burn Co. Barbecue
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Recipe: Burn Co BBQ's Grilled Potato Salad

At Burn Co BBQ, "everything must touch the fire," including this crowd-favorite side dish.

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Spicy Roasted Sweet Potato Salad

Spicy Roasted Sweet Potato Salad
Credit: Greg DuPree; Food Styling: Rishon Hanners; Prop Styling: Christine Keely

Recipe: Spicy Roasted Sweet Potato Salad

It's not always about the mayo and "regular" potatoes. For something light yet simultaneously filling, try the sweet potato instead. We roast them to create a charred, crispy texture and add fresh corn kernels, black beans, cilantro, and a honey-lime dressing.

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Lemon-Tarragon Potato Salad

Lemon-Tarragon Potato Salad
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Recipe: Lemon-Tarragon Potato Salad

Herby and zingy, this potato salad will be an instant summertime classic, just you watch.

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Warm Mustard Potato Salad

Warm Mustard Potato Salad
Credit: Greg DuPree; Food Styling: Rishon Hanners; Prop Styling: Christine Keely

Recipe: Warm Mustard Potato Salad

The secret to this phenomenal potato salad isn't a creamy dressing. Not at all. Instead, it's a warm mustard dressing made of dark brown sugar, whole-grain mustard, sherry vinegar, and cayenne.

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Roasted Potato Salad

Roasted Potato Salad
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Recipe: Roasted Potato Salad

Roasting the potatoes gives them an added depth of flavor, and the tangy Dijon vinaigrette keeps things light. Top with fresh parsley and tarragon for a little touch—the licorice notes of the tarragon make the salad truly special.

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Creamy Cajun-Spiced Potato Salad

Cajun Potato Salad
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Recipe: Creamy Cajun-Spiced Potato Salad

In this rendition of the potato salad, we have the additions of dill pickle relish, capers, whole-grain mustard, scallions, parsley, and Cajun seasoning for a dash of heat. Putting a dollop of sour cream in with the mayonnaise makes it a little tangy, too.

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Spinach-Artichoke Dip Potato Salad

Spinach-Artichoke Dip Potato Salad
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Recipe: Spinach-Artichoke Dip Potato Salad

This award-winning recipe combines two things we love, spinach-artichoke dip and potato salad. It'll be the delight of the party and talk of the town once you serve it at your next get-together.

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Tangy Potato-Green Bean Salad

Tangy Potato-Green Bean Salad
Credit: Photo: Greg DuPree; Prop Styling: Kay E. Clarke; Food Styling: Torie Cox

Recipe: Tangy Potato-Green Bean Salad

The first thing this recipe says is "hold the mayo." Do not panic. It's for the best, we promise.

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