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Instant Pot Potato Salad

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This Instant Pot Potato Salad is such a delicious side dish! This healthy recipe is so much easier to make in a pressure cooker. (gluten-free, dairy-free)

This Instant Pot Potato Salad is such a delicious side dish! This healthy recipe is so much easier to make in a pressure cooker. (gluten-free, dairy-free)

I’m never making potato salad on the stovetop again.

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My family loves potato salad, but it’s a bit of a pain to make. Boiling the potatoes to get just the right texture is frustrating. Some potatoes are done cooking before others, and inevitably they turn out a little too mushy or a little too crunchy.

Instant Pot potato salad on a plate

So I was so excited to discover that the Instant Pot yields the perfect texture every single time. With just a four minute cook time, chopped potatoes come out soft enough to absorb the dressing but solid enough to distinguish themselves from mashed potatoes. It does take between 10 and 15 minutes for the pot to come to pressure, but there’s no babysitting involved like there is with stove top potato salad.

Instant Pot potato salad is so much easier to make than the stove top version!

I leave the skin on my red potatoes for a boost in nutrients, but you can peel them if you’d prefer. And if you like eggs in your potato salad, you can cook the eggs right along with the potatoes in the Instant Pot’s steamer basket. This recipe yields 8 cups of potato salad, or 16 half cup servings.

This Instant Pot potato salad really couldn’t be easier to make. I can’t wait to make it over and over during cookout season.

Try my Instant Pot German potato salad for another variation of this delicious side dish. And this Instant Pot cauliflower couldn’t be easier to make in your pressure cooker. It takes a cook time of zero minutes!

Instant Pot potato salad is such an easy side dish recipe!
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Instant Pot Potato Salad

$.24 per serving

Course Side Dish
Cuisine American
Keyword potato salad
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 25 minutes
Servings 16
Calories 97 kcal
Author Annemarie

Ingredients

  • 2 pounds red skin potatoes chopped
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 celery stalk diced
  • 4 scallions diced (white and light green parts only)
  • 1/3 cup organic mayonnaise
  • 2 tsp red wine vinegar
  • 1 tsp stone ground mustard or your favorite kind
  • salt and pepper to taste
  • fresh chives for garnish

Instructions

  1. Pour a cup of water into the Instant Pot, then add a steamer basket to the pot. Place the chopped potatoes and eggs in the steamer basket. Set the Instant Pot to 4 minutes on manual high pressure. Once it’s done cooking, do a quick release and remove the steamer basket from the pot using a pot holder.

  2. Place the potatoes in a large bowl, and put the eggs in a bowl of cold water to cool a bit. Then peel each egg, cut in half, and remove the yolks to a small bowl. Mash the egg yolks with a fork. Add the mayonnaise, red wine vinegar, and mustard. Stir to combine evenly.

  3. Chop the egg whites and place them in the large bowl with the potatoes, along with the chopped celery and scallions.
  4. Pour the dressing onto the potato mixture. Stir gently to coat evenly. Sprinkle with salt and pepper to taste. Serve warm or refrigerate until ready to serve.

Instant Pot Potato Salad Price Breakdown

This recipe costs a total of $3.90 to make, or $.24 per half cup serving. Try this easy red potato salad the next time you’re feeding a crowd. Everyone will love it!

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Comments

  10. The IP cooks potatoes so perfectly! Makes for the best potato salad! Your version is great, so yummy with the bites of celery in it too.

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  14. Using the 6 qt Instant pot, and approximating the size of the potatoes, shown, as being about 3/4 in. widie, “4 minutes” was inadequate. You can do it with potatoes chopped to small pieces, like 1/4 in wide, but it takes at least 8 min manual pressure cook to get red potatoes of 3/4 in average width to an al dente texture. I made a dijon vinagrette (oil, red wine vinegar, garlic, mustard and lemon juice) and added 3 TSP vegan mayo. The recipe, as presented, is terrific. The Instant pot works well, for this.

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    • So interesting! I’ve made this recipe many times in my 6 quart Instant Pot at 4 minutes, and the potatoes come out soft every time. What altitude are you at? I know that high altitudes require slightly higher cooking times. My potatoes would definitely turn to mush if I cooked them for 8 minutes here in Massachusetts.

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  15. I am excited to learn that my Instant Pot can cook potatoes for potato salad! I didn’t know that yet. Because you are right the traditional way of boiling is a total pain. Thanks for the recipe!

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  18. I have not jumped on the instant pot bandwagon yet, but you are convincing me that I should. I always have trouble with my potatoes getting overdone for potato salad, and this would be the perfect solution!

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