Pressure Cooker BLT Potato Salad
I’ve been in love with my quick potato salad recipe this summer. It’s a great basic potato salad recipe that cooks in only 4 minutes in the pressure cooker. It’s perfect for summer parties.
Recently, I signed up to bring potato salad to a church picnic and I wanted to create a fun new version to take to the party. One of my readers commented that she added bacon to my potato salad recipe. Since you can’t go wrong with bacon, it got me thinking what other fun ingredients I could add to dress up my potato salad for the picnic and a BLT came to mind.
I added plenty of crisp bacon, fresh parsley, and sweet sun-dried tomatoes to the traditional recipe. It still has the creamy flavor you expect from potato salad, but with a fun new flavor twist. I debated whether or not to add the eggs, but my husband said it wasn’t potato salad without the eggs.
I always use light mayo at home, which cuts out a little bit of the fat and calories. Others have also said the recipe is great with half mayo and half Greek yogurt.
Making BLT Potato Salad in an Instant Pot
BLT Potato Salad
Ingredients
- 6 medium russet potatoes, peeled and cubed
- 1 1/2 cups water
- 3 large eggs
- 1 cup mayonnaise (I used light)
- 1 tablespoon dill pickle juice
- 1 tablespoon mustard
- 3 green onions, chopped
- 6 slices of precooked bacon, crumbled
- 5 sundried tomatoes, chopped
- 1 cup fresh flat-leaf parsley, trimmed of thick stems
- Salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
Put the steamer basket in the pressure cooker pot. Add the water, potatoes, and the eggs. Lock lid in place, select High Pressure, 4 minutes cook time and press start.
When timer beeps, turn off pressure cooker and do a quick pressure release. When the pressure is released, carefully remove the lid. Remove the steamer basket from the pressure cooking pot. Put eggs into ice cold water to cool.
In a large bowl, combine the mayo, pickle juice, and mustard. Mix in green onion, bacon, sun dried tomatoes and parsley.Add the potatoes and gently mix the mayonnaise mixture into the potatoes.
Peel and dice cooled eggs and gently stir into potato salad. Add salt and pepper to taste. If needed, add more mayonnaise to achieve desired consistency.
Chill at least one hour before serving. Top with additional crumbled bacon, if desired.
I use Yukon Gold potatoes as I think
Russets are too fluffy and tend to fall apart. Now that summer appears to be finally here, can’t wait to make a potato salad!
Hi Kate – I’m sure Yukon Golds would be great in this. I find that russets cooked on the steamer basket in the pressure cooker aren’t too fluffy and don’t fall apart. Either way. Enjoy!
This is a delicious variation on your regular potato salad, which I made and we loved the week before. I love how the Instant Pot makes light work of potato salad! I am a new IP user and have learned so much from you! Thank you for your hard work!
For this BLT variation, I used half Greek yogurt/half light mayo, omitted the pickle juice, and added some smoked paprika. Delicious!
Another great variation on this salad is to substitute toasted pine nuts for the tomatoes. Gives really moreish crunch!
That does sound delicious. Thanks for sharing Gill!
I just got a power pressure cooker and am looking for simple good recipes
Hi Juliana – have fun pressure cooking. Most of my recipes are really easy. Enjoy!
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OK – maybe a dumb question – but when you say steamer basket, do you mean the one that holds the items above the water, or the one that allows you to lift the items out of the water (pasta basket). In other words, are we steaming the eggs and potatoes, or boiling?
Not a dumb question. I use the OXO steamer basket http://www.amazon.com/OXO-Good-Grips-Pop-Up-Steamer/dp/B000HCBDF2/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1384382711&sr=8-2&keywords=oxo+steamer+basket. It keeps the food up out of the liquid so the food steams and doesn’t boil.
Thanks!
WOW!!!!!!!!!! That looks very good even this early in the morning! Looking forward to making this when we get a chance. Thanks for your outstanding iteas and recipes! Thankls! Ann
Ohhhhhhhhhh Barbara-ya ding dang doggone did it again……..what a GREAT looking potato salad that is. I’m thinking I’ll cut the mayonnaise with part Greek yogurt-I’ve been doing that in full mayonnaise recipes and really like the end result. I love all that’s going on in your salad-I can’t wait to try it….and wait until I tell Bob about this treat-he’ll have his dish and the serving spoon out and ready. 🙂
Thanks so much!
Carol
I can taste it already!!!