How to Make Hot German Potato Salad
Posted: Saturday, July 31, 2010
by The Old Gray Mare
www.DressYourHorse.com
Ingredients:
- 6 Cups (3 lbs) Cooked & Sliced (or Cubed) Potatoes
- 1/2 Cup Chicken Broth
- 1/2 Cub Apple or Wine Vinegar
- 1/2 Lb Bacon
- 1/3 Cup Bacon Drippings
- 1 Tbsp Flour (or Corn Starch)
- 1 Tbsp Sugar
- 1 Tsp Celery Seed
- 1 Tsp Garlic Powder (optional)
- 1/2 Tsp Salt
- 1/4 Tsp Ground Pepper
- 1 Tbsp German Maggi (Soy Sauce)
Step 1 - Fry up the bacon and get it good and crisp. Go for lean bacon because it tastes better in the salad.
The Old Gray Mare offers up a few pointers here that make this dish such a success: Substitute Canadian bacon. You can also use turkey bacon, small cubes of kielbasa. If you are fortunate enough to buy some "German Schinken," then that is actually the best flavored meat to use.
Step 2 - After you have crisped the bacon well, drain on a base of paper towels. No need to blot.
Step 3 - Heat the drippings. When hot, blend in the flour, sugar, celery seed, salt & pepper and Maggi (or soy sauce). The Old Gray Mare suggests adding garlic powder as well although our traditional family recipe does not call for it. Give the mixture a good stirring.
Step 4 - Blend (gradually - slowly - stir) in the broth and your vinegar choice. Cook until the mixture thickens slightly. Keep stirring! Remove from heat source.
Step 5 - Combine the bacon pieces with the potatoes and toss.
Step 6 - Finally, pour the hot sauce mixture over the potatoes and toss to mix.
Preheat oven to 325-350 degrees.
Step 7 - Put the combined ingredient mixture into a serving dish, put in oven, and heat for hour.
These potatoes are excellent when served with knockwurst, bratwurst, pork or veal, etc.
This article was written by The Old Gray Mare of DressYourHorse.com.
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Top-level comments on this article: (4 total)I've just seen your bio and realized your name is there, Heidi! This recipe sounds fabulous!Thanks so much. Yep I'm Heidi and this recipe is truly an old family one. My mother always made this recipe - sometimes with bacon, sometimes with Schinken, sometimes with small pieces of Canadian Bacon, and even with Prescuitto (sp?). It was really hard to convey measurements because she's whip this up with a pinch, dab, sprinkle - you know the drill - But it truly is good, just totally fattening. You have it occasionally because with our current knowledge of healthy foods, this one would have a disclaimer.Thanks Jenn- for finding Heidi's name- I should have paid more attention- maybe I would have noticed it. You're very observant-
This sounds delicious! I've made german potatoe salad before, but this sounds better than mine. I wrote down the recipe and will make it next time I need to take a dish to a dinner or cookout- it's sure to be a hit. I'm of German ancestry, and I love good German food. Thanks Heidi- glad I found out what your name is- I like the name Heidi- Always- EllaThanks Ella for the good comments. It's good. just don't think diet when eating it. This recipe works best at a family gathering when food is important to the get-together, not at a time when everybody just grazes and nibbles. It is also good at a pot luck dinner and cookout as you suggest. This one serves hot so it's not great for the fourth of July - when everybody prob. wants something cold and lighter. Now for Labor Day, this might be a smash.
Oh, yum! this reminds me of our old family recipe for the same good stuff!A lot of the old faves have almost similar ingredients - but you know the folks used a pinch of this and a pinch of that so it varies a little here and there. Then, too, sometimes there a little extra twist. My favorite foods are made from recipes that have been family tried-and-true.I have been cooking family meals since I was 8 (mom was in bed that year) so I can surely relate to a pinch of this and that....GRIN
I was looking for potato salad recipes for my new daughter-in-law, coming soon from the Philippines, so glad you posted this; I`ll change mine a bit.My German mother used this recipe and versions of it all her life. She was well known for yummy potato salad. Sometimes she used lemon and other little twists. It was always good though.
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