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    Best Easy Instant Pot Potato Salad

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    Last Modified: May 12, 2021

    Use your Instant Pot to make this delicious classic potato salad recipe. Loaded with all fresh ingredients, it’s super easy to make and is the perfect side dish to bring to any occasion.

    Recipe for Instant Pot potato salad

    Use Russet Potatoes for Instant Pot Potato Salad

    We’ll use good old classic russet potatoes for our Instant Pot potato salad. They’re the perfect taste and texture, just like the potato salad you know and love. Start by peeling the potatoes and cutting into 1 inch chunks. Then we give them a good rinse before adding to the Instant Pot with 1.5 cups of water and a ½ teaspoon of salt. Adding the salt to the water for cooking is really important. Potatoes need salt and by adding it to the water, this allows the flavor to really penetrate the potatoes while cooking. So be sure not to skip this part.

    Recipe for Instant Pot potato salad

    Pressure Cook for Just 3 Minutes

    After we add our potatoes, water and salt to the Instant Pot, secure the lid, set the vent to “sealing”, and pressure cook on high for 3 minutes. Though 3 minutes seems like little time, the potatoes will be cooking while the Instant Pot comes to pressure. This takes about 5-10 minutes. Once the pot reaches pressure, it will beep and the timer will begin. When the cooking time is done, do a quick release of the pressure and remove the lid when the pin drops. Press cancel. Drain the potatoes in a colander and then return them to the Instant Pot.

    Perfect Dressing for Potato Salad

    Whipping up the dressing for the potato salad is easy too. I love to use fresh dill and fresh chives. We’ll use about ¼ cup of finely chopped fresh dill and 2 tablespoons of fresh, finely chopped chives. If you don’t have fresh dill, use 3 teaspoons of dried dill. For the chives, you can substitute 2 teaspoons of dried chives. The base for our potato salad dressing is 1 cup of mayonnaise, ¼ cup of buttermilk and 2 tablespoons of dijon mustard. I suggest regular dijon mustard as opposed to course stone ground dijon. The classic dijon is the right taste and texture. If you don’t have dijon, use 1 tablespoon of yellow mustard. Anther important ingredient is the lemon juice. But, we won’t add that to the dressing, we’ll actually add it directly to the potatoes after they’re drained and returned to the pot. We want that acidity to get adsorbed directly into the potatoes. If you don’t have lemon juice you can substitute apple cider vinegar.

    Finally, for our dressing we’ll add a ¼ cup of finely chopped red onion. You can also ad some chopped celery if you like.

    Ingredients for Instant Pot potato salad

    Mix Gently and Chill Out

    When our dressing is made, gently stir it in to the potatoes. You don’t want to mash or break up the potatoes so use a wooden spoon or even a spatula and just fold the potatoes and dressing together. You can also add a little salt or pepper at this point to taste. Then put your freshly made potato salad in a container in the fridge and let it cool for a few hours or overnight before serving.

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    Recipe for classic potato salad made in an Instant Pot.

    Best Easy Instant Pot Potato Salad


    • Author: RecipeTeacher
    • Total Time: 30 min
    • Yield: 6-8 servings
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    Description

    Classic potato salad made to perfection in your Instant Pot pressure cooker.


    Ingredients

    • 3 lbs. Russet potatoes
    • 1.5 cups water
    • ½ cup red onions, finely chopped
    • ¼ cup fresh dill, finely chopped (or 3 tsp dried dill)
    • 2 tbs fresh chives, finely copped (or 1 tsp dried chives)
    • ½ teaspoon salt
    • 1 cup mayonnaise
    • ¼ cup buttermilk
    • 2 tbs dijon mustard
    • 1 tbs lemon juice
    • salt and pepper to taste

     


    Instructions

    1. Peel and cut potatoes into 1 inch chunks.
    2. Add water to Instant Pot with ½ teaspoon of salt, add potatoes. Secure lid, set vent to “sealing” and pressure cook on high for 3 minutes.
    3. When the 3 minutes are complete, quick release the pressure and press cancel. Drain potatoes in a colander and return to pot. Gently add lemon juice.
    4. In a separate bowl mix mayo, buttermilk, dijon mustard, dill, onions and chives. Then gently add dressing to potatoes and stir until all incorporated. Add salt and pepper to taste (usually about ½ teaspoon of each).
    5. Put potato salad in a container and chill for at least 2 hours before serving.
    • Prep Time: 15 min
    • Cook Time: 3 min +time to pressure
    • Category: Side dish
    • Method: Instant Pot
    • Cuisine: American

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    1. Jane

      June 05, 2020 at 9:21 pm

      To half this as we’re a family of 2, would the cook time change and the amount of liquid? Thank you.

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      • RecipeTeacher

        June 05, 2020 at 9:29 pm

        Keep the liquid and cook time the same.

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