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recipes, summer · May 24, 2018

Instant Pot Texas-Style Potato Salad

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Instant Pot Texas-Style Potato Salad is the perfect dish to take to ANY Summer party or BBQ. Fresh new potatoes in a sweet vinegar dressing are tossed with grilled onions and bacon for a light potato salad everyone will love! Make it in your Instant Pot and you can whip this up in just a few minutes.

Instant Pot Texas-Style Potato Salad is the perfect dish to take to ANY Summer party or BBQ. Fresh new potatoes in a sweet vinegar dressing are tossed with grilled onions and bacon for a light potato salad everyone will love! Make it in your Instant Pot and you can whip this up in just a few minutes.

We love potatoes at our house!! I swear we could eat some sort of potato-based recipe for every single meal. Of course one of our favorite potato recipes to make in the summer is potato salad. And we love using our Instant Pot to make potato salad.

Instant Pot 10-minute Spring Potato Salad. Use your Instant Pot to make a super quick and delicious potato salad. It's perfect for a picnic!

It’s SO fast!! One of our favorites is this Instant Pot Potato Salad.

Instant Pot Texas-Style Potato Salad is the perfect dish to take to ANY Summer party or BBQ. Fresh new potatoes in a sweet vinegar dressing are tossed with grilled onions and bacon for a light potato salad everyone will love! Make it in your Instant Pot and you can whip this up in just a few minutes.

My daughter graduated from college this month and to celebrate we had a little party with her boyfriends parents at a local park. I knew potato salad would be perfect for this outdoor event. The trick with potato salad I have found is that some people don’t like mayonnaise or really saucy potato salad. So I thought Texas Potato Salad would be perfect. Texas Potato Salad is a basically lots of yummy red or gold potatoes in a vinegar-based dressing with grilled onions and bacon. It’s so good!

Texas-Style Potato Salad is red potatoes in a vinegar-based dressing with hints of peppers, grilled onions and bacon.

My son is a pescatarian so instead of mixing the bacon in with the salad, I just added it to the top so he could get a portion without bacon. You only need to cook your potatoes for 8 minutes in the Instant Pot which is the perfect amount of time to get all of your ingredients chopped and combined. Once the potatoes are done, you add the ingredients and pop it in the fridge to chill. Then you have the perfect potato salad to take to ANY party of BBQ this summer!

Here’s how to make Instant Pot Texas-Style Potato Salad

Texas Potato Salad is the perfect dish to take to ANY Summer party or BBQ. Fresh new potatoes in a sweet vingear dressing are tossed with grilled onions and bacon for a light potato salad everyone will love! Make it in your Instant Pot and you can whip this up in just a few minutes. 
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Instant Pot Texas-Style Potato Salad

Instant Pot Texas-Style Potato Salad is the perfect dish to take to ANY Summer party or BBQ. Fresh new potatoes in a sweet vinegar dressing are tossed with grilled onions and bacon for a light potato salad everyone will love! Make it in your Instant Pot and you can whip this up in just a few minutes.

Course Side Dish
Cuisine American
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 8 minutes
Total Time 13 minutes
Servings 8

Ingredients

  • 3 pounds red new potatoes, cut quartered
  • 1/2 large red onion, diced
  • 1.5 cups water
  • 6 slices bacon, cooked
  • 1 T. coriander seeds
  • 1/4 t. ground cumin
  • 1 T. Oregano, crushed
  • 2 serrano chilis, de-seeded and minced
  • 1 cup cilantro, chopped
  • 2 T. olive oil
  • 2 T. Red Wine Vinegar
  • 1/4 cup olive oil
  • 1/2 t. red pepper flakes
  • 1 red pepper, chopped
  • 3 roma tomatoes, chopped
  • pinch salt, to taste
  • pinch pepper, to taste

Instructions

  1. Turn Instant Pot onto "Saute". Add oil, when oil is hot add red onion, coriander seeds, oregano, cumin, salt and pepper and saute for 5 minutes or until the onion pieces are translucent.

  2. Switch Instant Pot from Saute to Cook (high heat). 

  3. Add potatoes and water to Instant Pot onion mixture. Lock lid in place and set the switch to "pressure". Cook on high heat setting for 8 minutes. It will take a few minutes for the Instant Pot to come up to pressure. 

  4. While potatoes cook, make the dressing. In a small bowl add 1/4 cup olive oil, vinegar, red pepper flakes and whisk together to blend. 

  5. In a large bowl, add serrano peppers, red peppers, tomatoes.

  6. Once potatoes are done, drain the remaining water out of the pot. You can either do a quick-release of the pressure and take the potatoes out OR let the Instant Pot de-pressurizes naturally which take a few minutes longer. Then take the lid off and put the potato/onion mixture in the large bowl with the peppers and tomatoes. 

  7. Add dressing to the large bowl and mix the dressing into the potatoes and veggies. 

  8. Top the salad with chopped bacon and cilantro. You can mix the bacon and cilantro in the salad OR just add it as a topping for those guests who don't eat bacon or cilantro. You can also garnish with a little salt and pepper. 

  9. Chill the salad in the fridge for at least 1 hour. It can be chilled for up to 24 hours before serving. Enjoy! 

We hope you enjoy this salad as much as we do!

I love making a batch on Sundays and eating the left-overs throughout the week. SO yummy!

Here are a few other recipes we love to make for Summer parties and BBQ’s:

greek cobb salad with zesty chicken

Greek Cobb Salad 

Amazing Springtime Pasta Salad recipe

Springtime Pasta Veggie Cheese Salad 

Salad that would be perfect to take on a picnic

Mediterranean Orzo Pasta Salad

Pressed Picnic Sandwich recipe

Pressed Picnic Sandwich 

 

 

What’s YOUR favorite picnic recipe? 

Share it with US in the comments!!

Have a Yummy Day! 

xoxo

Instant Pot Texas-Style Potato Salad is the perfect dish to take to ANY Summer party or BBQ. Fresh new potatoes in a sweet vinegar dressing are tossed with grilled onions and bacon for a light potato salad everyone will love! Make it in your Instant Pot and you can whip this up in just a few minutes.

Posted By: Jen · In: recipes, summer

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Hi! I'm Jen Hadfield. I'm a mom of 5 restoring an 1891 home in the heart of Salt Lake City. I love being creative and sharing simple ideas to make your life easier and more beautiful!

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