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.

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

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

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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 minutes

Cook Time 8 minutes minutes

Total Time 13 minutes 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

• 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.
• Switch Instant Pot from Saute to Cook (high heat). 
• 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. 
• 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. 
• In a large bowl, add serrano peppers, red peppers, tomatoes.
• 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. 
• Add dressing to the large bowl and mix the dressing into the potatoes and veggies. 
• 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. 
• 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 

Springtime Pasta Veggie Cheese Salad 

Mediterranean Orzo Pasta Salad

Pressed Picnic Sandwich 

What’s YOUR favorite picnic recipe? 

Share it with US in the comments!!

Have a Yummy Day! 

xoxo

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Instant Pot 10-Minute Spring Potato Salad

It’s been so warm here this week. I even made a picnic dinner and we took it down to the lake one night. There’s nothing that says “picnic” to me more than potato salad. My kids love it. I was in a hurry so I tried making it in the Instant Pot.

And it turned out great! I cooked the potatoes for 6 minutes in the Instant Pot and they were actually a little overdone. So I made it the next day and cooked them for 5 minutes and they were perfect. Isn’t that amazing?? Only 5 minutes to perfect potatoes.

Instant Pot 10-Minute Spring Potato Salad

While they were cooking I chopped up the vegetables. I added some Spring veggies and it was so good. I added asparagus tips and fresh tomatoes to the top. I also made a fresh vinagrette to the sauce with fresh dill. YUM!

In 10 minutes I had a potato salad that was so good. I ate some while it was warm – I couldn’t resist LOL. Of course it is better to refrigerate the salad at least a couple of hours.

I ended up making a pressed picnic sandwich to take along with the potato salad. What a wonderful combination. The pressed picnic sandwich recipe is coming up next week.

Our community has a wonderful lake with tons of picnic space. We are so excited for more picnics this Spring and Summer. I am planning on lots of picnic food recipes that I will share in case you also love to picnic!!

Instant Pot 10-Minute Spring Potato Salad

Here’s the recipe for Instant Pot 10-Minute Spring Potato Salad:

Here are some wonderful Instant Pot recipes:

Here are a few other Spring recipes we love:

Bunny Cheese Ball

Mediterranean Orzo Salad 

BLT Salad with Homemade Ranch Dressing

Layered Cobb Salad with Homemade Vinaigrette Dressing 

What are YOU doing to celebrate Spring?

Let me know in the comments.

I would love to come over and see YOUR ideas!

Have a Beautiful Day! 

xoxo

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