Liven up your picnic side dishes with sweet and creamy Amish Potato Salad! This recipe is similar to Walmart’s Amish Potato Salad with a tangy dressing made of mayonnaise, mustard, vinegar, sugar, and smoked paprika.
First, there’s less traffic. That’s probably a given, but you don’t have to plan your day around rush hour traffic to get where you’re going.
On the bright side, I’m not stuck going up the mountain at 20 miles per hour behind trucks or stuck on back country roads where you can’t (legally) pass the cars in front of you.
Second, I miss the Mennonite and Amish markets. I could name at least 5 markets in the area that sold Amish food, but in Pittsburgh I’m struggling to find anything close.
I miss buttery Amish pretzels (think Auntie Anne’s pretzels at the mall but a million times better). I miss Amish doughnuts stuffed with peanut butter cream.
Now I can still get fresh Amish doughnuts near my parents where an Amish family sets up their tent once a month, but peanut butter glazed is not the same as peanut butter cream.
I also miss Amish sides, like macaroni salad, potato salad, and coleslaw. As much as I love making everything from scratch, sometimes when my family was visiting the entire weekend (Friday night – Sunday night), I needed a little help with dinner.
Often we were running around keeping busy and not home in time to make anything that can’t be served right away (who really wants to eat homemade potato salad at 7 PM when you were ready for dinner 2 hours earlier?).
And since the sides were still technically homemade (just not by me), we had no problems devouring a pound.
With the season of potato salad upon us, my craving for Amish Potato Salad is back.
It’s a twist on classic potato salad where you add yellow mustard, vinegar, and sugar to your mayonnaise based dressing.
It’s a bit sweeter than most potato salads, but the mustard and vinegar help balance it out so it’s not too sweet to serve.
Growing up I wasn’t a huge fan of mayo-heavy salads, but adding mustard really changed my mind.
Sometimes I see Amish potato salad from the Walmart deli, but typically I make my own, which is really easy to do. Cook the potatoes, whisk together the dressing, toss, and done.
And since typically potato salad makes tons of serving, I made small batch potato salad, which makes about 4 servings or so.
Serve up this Amish Potato Salad recipe for your summer picnics, and I guarantee it’ll be the star of side dishes.
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