Instant Pot Potato Salad

AnInstant Pot Potato Saladrecipe that only has a 5 minute cook time! The eggs cook right along with the potatoes – plus there’s a secret ingredient! Potato salad is the ideal side dish for a good burger, or it can stand alone – you choose!

Tips for Making Instant Pot Recipes:

Spoiler alert: not everyone who buys and tries an Instant Pot loves it. It takes time for the IP to come up to pressure, it takes time for the pressure to be released after the cooking period. When it comes down to it, not all recipes are magically faster just because you threw it in a pressure cooker. If you are trying the recipes that aren’t faster (expecting it to be fast), you are going to be disappointed for sure.

Here’s the secret to the Instant Pot though. Using it to make recipes where it really does produce a better product or a quicker cooking time will change your IP game. I think that chicken and pork cooked in the Instant Pot are pull-apart amazing. Make those. I also think that things like cooking dried beans, steal cut oats, eggs, chicken stock, and potato salad are so much faster and easier in the IP. Make those, too. If you are trying the right recipes in the Instant Pot you’ll see what all of the fuss is about. I use mine often and love it.

Instant Pot Potato Salad is Awesome Because:

• It really is faster. You cut your taters and toss them in AND you cook the “boiled” eggs at the same time!
• The steamed potatoes have an amazing texture (much fluffier then boiled potatoes).
• There’s a 4 minute cook time! Once you close the lid and wait for it to come to pressure, cook, and release the pressure, you are looking at 25-30 minutes of IP cooking time, which is still faster than boiling potatoes most of the time.
• There’s no heavy pan of hot potatoes and water to drain! This is one of my favorite parts of making potato salad with the Instant Pot. I gotthis steamer basketfor my IP (it fits both the 6 and 8 quart) and I love it for this recipe as well as steaming eggs, artichokes and more!

Tricks to Making Homemade Potato Salad:

• You can peel and cube traditional russet potatoes. Just be sure that you are thinking small bite-sized pieces.
• I also tried leaving the peel on new red potatoes and they cooked up really nicely. Both are great options.
• You don’t have to make my potato salad “dressing” to make IP potato salad. Just use the cooking method prescribed and throw in what you like, or make your mom’s version starting after the potatoes are cooked.
• Not a fan of dill pickles? Leave them out, though don’t skip adding the pickle juice – that’s the secret ingredient! It’s the acid in the recipe and will taste more like dill vinegar than anything.
• I like to let my potatoes cool just a bit before adding my mayo. Mayo and hot potatoes is an odd combination to me.

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Other great picnic/party/potluck recipes:

• 8 Different Homemade Lemonade Recipes
• Midwestern Creamy Cucumber and Vinegar Salad
• Zucchini Oatmeal Cookies

There are so many other great recipes hiding in my archives if you are in the need for something to take to a party, or simply looking for some fun food ideas now that the kids are home for summer. I hope you’ll dig in and enjoy the years and years of recipes I have been posting. I’m so glad you’re here. Enjoy from my kitchen to yours!