Creamy German Potato Salad (Cremiger Kartoffelsalat)
Serves 10
20 mins prep
30 mins cook
720 mins Potato Resting Time
770 mins total
My Oma Sieghilde’s creamy mayo-base potato salad with lots of dill pickles, eggs, Wiener sausages, and (you guessed it) plenty of potatoes, makes a great contribution to an outdoor or indoor outing with family and friends. When I spend time in Germany in the summers, it's a must have for grilling outside, served with grilled German bratwurst, Schwenkbraten and German slider buns or Brezeln.
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Add potatoes with the skin still on to a large pot and fill with enough water to cover the potatoes completely. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to medium and cook until a fork inserts into the potatoes with ease, about 20 to 30 minutes, depending on the size of your potatoes.
Drain the potatoes and do not run cold water over them. I have found that this makes the potatoes fall apart more easily. Do this ideally the day before preparing the salad. That being said, don't worry if you just now read the instructions and are in a time crunch. I have also peeled the potatoes hot and sliced them and the salad turned out just fine! The slices may crumble okay a little more, but that is okay!
kilograms waxy potatoes
Then peel, leaving the potatoes whole, and keep cool and covered until ready to put together the salad. When ready to use, slice the potatoes into about 1/4 inch thick slices and combine them in a bowl with the small diced onion.
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Boil your eggs to either medium or hard (making sure to boil a few additional eggs for garnish). Heat a pot of water until boiling. Carefully drop in the cold eggs using a spoon and boil for either 7 1/2 minutes for medium or 9 minutes for hard. Medium boiled eggs will have a waxy yolk and hard boiled eggs will have a hard yolk. Drain and pour over cold water to stop the boiling process. Peel immediately under cold, running water, so the shell comes off more easily. Let them cool and dice (I cut the eggs I use as garnish into wedges.)
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Medium dice the pickles and Wiener sausages. Combine everything in a medium sized bowl.
Wiener sausages
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In a medium sized pot, combine broth, pickle juice, vinegar and mustard and bring to a boil. Add salt, pepper and sugar to taste (it should not be too sour or else grandma gets mad!). Let cool slightly, then pour over potato-onion mixture and let marinate for 10 minutes. Then stir in the mayo.
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tsp dijon mustard
salt, pepper, sugar
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tbsp white wine vinegar
Add in the diced pickles, eggs and Wieners. Serve right away or keep cool in the fridge, and garnish with more eggs, pickle slices (optional) and parsley before serving.
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