Loaded Baked Potato Salad
If there’s one thing I love about summer, it’s the picnic food that I get to consume in excess. For the longest time, I loathed potato salad. Absolutely loathed it. The problem? Every potato salad I had ever tasted was completely swimming in mayonnaise. While I can appreciate a light smear of mayo on a sandwich or burger, I could never stomach such a huge amount of it in potato or pasta salads. So for years, I stayed away. It wasn’t until I started making my own potato salads and could balance the flavors, that I fell in love with the classic summer side dish. The best-ever potato salad is still number one in my heart, but I love this loaded baked potato spin.
I am such a huge sucker for the combination of flavors in any type of loaded baked potato recipe; this loaded baked potato dip, for example, is something I could sit and eat, and eat, and eat… you get the idea. It’s totally addicting. When you combine sour cream, bacon, cheddar cheese and scallions, only good things can happen.
This potato salad is definitely a good thing. If you want to switch things up from a traditional potato salad, this is definitely the ticket. Adding extra bacon and cheese is highly encouraged!
Save This Recipe
Enter your email address, and we'll send it straight to your inbox!
One year ago: Strawberry Cupcakes with Strawberry Meringue Buttercream
Three years ago: Taco Dip
Loaded Baked Potato Salad
Ingredients
- 2 pounds (907.18 g) Russet potatoes, scrubbed and pricked all over with a fork or knife
- ¾ cup (168 g) mayonnaise
- ¾ cup (172.5 ml) sour cream
- 8 slices bacon, cooked and crumbled
- ½ cup (56.5 g) shredded cheddar cheese
- ⅓ cup (33.33 g) chopped scallions, green part only
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Bake the potatoes for 45 to 50 minutes, or until tender and cooked through. Set aside to cool completely.
- Once potatoes are completely cool, cut into ½-inch pieces.
- In a large bowl, whisk together the mayonnaise and sour cream. Add the potatoes, bacon, cheese, green onion, salt and pepper, and fold together gently with a rubber spatula until completely combined. Cover and refrigerate for at least 4 hours before serving. Garnish with additional bacon, shredded cheddar and green onion, if desired.
Notes
Did you make this recipe?
Leave a review below, then snap a picture and tag @thebrowneyedbaker on Instagram so I can see it!
Really delicious! Even those that don’t like typical potato salad will be having seconds.
This is by far the BEST potato salad I’ve ever had! I made this for a family BBQ and everyone loved it! I made some slight modifications (used a 5lb bag of potatoes, sliced and coated them with olive oil, salt and pepper and used 1 cup of sour cream and 1/2 cup of mayonnaise). My husband asked ‘is this a Brown Eyed Baker recipe?’ because all the best dishes come from you! Thank you! I will definitely be making this again.
I have a great recipe for potato salad with no mayo when spuds are cooked drain and add 3or4 table spoons of lemon juice let cool place in bowl add pure cream to the consistency you want stir in any herbs onion bacon or any thing you want and refrigerate for 3 hours befour serving
Wow! This is fantastic! So glad I tried it.
Nice dish mate!!!!
I doubled this and made it for a house party. It was devoured! very good and it’s a keeper!
This recipe was very very disappointing to my three young adults, their mates and two children! I had to throw out most of a double recipe.
When was preggers with my son this was all I wanted to eat for my first trimester it was all I could keep down! Lol he loves potatoes now!
I despise potato salad, that is until I made this one! So amazing! We had a bbq and I made this one, we did have some people who do not eat pork so I made the bacon crumbles and put them in a bowl next to the salad so it could be added or not, I also had a small bowl with some extra cheddar cheese in case anyone wanted a little more cheese. This was definitely hit and has already been requested for our next bbq. Thank you for a great recipe!
I made this on the 4th and it was amazing! Several of my family members dislike potato salad but I made them atleast try it. Well they went back for 3 servings, haha! Thanks for another fantastic recipe!