#51 Holiday Cooking

Potluck # 51 Cooking
This tangy side dish with sweet onions and honey pairs beautifully with burgers or steak. This salad is best chilled but can stay at room temperature for up to two hours. You can also use sweet-hot mustard in place of the Dijon and honey for a zesty flavor.
Yield: 8 servings (serving size: 1 cup)
Ingredients
• 3 pounds small red potatoes, cut into 1-inch pieces
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 2 teaspoons freshly ground black pepper
• 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
• 2 bacon slices (uncooked), chopped
• 2 cups diced Vidalia or other sweet onion (about 2 medium)
• 2 garlic cloves, minced
• 3 tablespoons Dijon mustard
• 2 tablespoons reduced-fat mayonnaise
• 1 1/2 tablespoons honey
• 1 1/2 tablespoons sherry vinegar
• 1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley
Preparation
Preheat oven to 400°.
Combine first 4 ingredients in a large bowl; toss to coat. Arrange potatoes in a single layer on a jelly-roll pan. Bake at 400° for 40 minutes or until potatoes are tender, stirring once. Transfer potatoes to a large bowl.
Cook bacon in a large nonstick skillet over medium heat until crisp. Remove bacon from pan, reserving 1 tablespoon drippings in pan; set bacon aside. Add onion to drippings in pan; cook 15 minutes or until golden brown and caramelized, stirring frequently. Add garlic to pan; cook 30 seconds. Add onion mixture and bacon to potatoes; toss gently. Let stand 15 minutes.
Combine mustard, mayonnaise, honey, and vinegar in a small bowl; stir with a whisk. Add mustard mixture and parsley to potato mixture; toss gently.
To convert this to a recipe for 20 people… times it by 2.5

This tangy side dish with sweet onions and honey pairs beautifully with burgers or steak. This salad is best chilled but can stay at room temperature for up to two hours. You can also use sweet-hot mustard in place of the Dijon and honey for a zesty flavor.
Yield: 8 servings (serving size: 1 cup)
Ingredients
• 7.5 pounds small red potatoes, cut into 1-inch pieces
• 2.5 tablespoon olive oil
• 5 teaspoons freshly ground black pepper
• 1 ¼ teaspoon kosher salt
• 5 bacon slices (uncooked), chopped
• 5 cups diced Vidalia or other sweet onion (about 2 medium)
• 5 garlic cloves, minced
• 7.5 tablespoons Dijon mustard
• 5 tablespoons reduced-fat mayonnaise
• 3 ¾ tablespoons honey
• 3 ¾ tablespoons sherry vinegar

• 1 cup chopped fresh parsley


I originally got this recipe from myrecipes.com, I believe it was from Cooking Light. It is an wonderful potato salad recipe, definitely out of the ordinary. Whenever I make it, everyone wants the recipe. I do have a secret though. I flip flop the amts for the Dijon mustard and the honey. My husband was never a big fan of mustard in potato salad, so I though that would take it out of the main ingredient status. It works out perfectly everytime.

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