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Potato salad in an instant cooker? Try it for Labor Day!

Chef Char has a new take on a classic recipe that will make it easier and faster this Labor Day.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - You've been tasked with bringing a dish to a Labor Day cookout, but don't have time to make something and don't want to pick something up -- try Chef Char's delicious instant pot potato salad recipe.

Instant Pot Easy Potato Salad

Ingredients

  • 2 – 2 ½ pounds small redskin potatoes
  • 4 large carrots, peeled and cut in half
  • 6 eggs
  • 11/2 cups water
  • Potato Salad Dressing:
  • 1 cup mayonnaise
  • 5 oz. dill relish
  • 1 tsp mustard
  • 2 tsp dried parsley
  • 1 tsp dill weed
  • 1 tsp paprika
  • Salt and pepper to taste

Instructions

  • 1. In an 8 quart Instant Pot, line the redskin potatoes along the bottom of the pot. Add 1 ½
  • cup water over potatoes.
  • 2. In a silicone or stainless steel basket over the potatoes, place 6 eggs and the peeled
  • carrots.
  • 3. Set Instant Pot on “Egg” setting (5 minutes at high pressure).
  • 4. Once the timer goes off, allow the contents to sit in the pressure for 5 minutes before
  • manually releasing the pressure.
  • 5. Carefully remove the lid and remove the basket containing the carrots and the eggs.
  • 6. When cool enough to handle, place carrots aside to be cut into small dice.
  • 7. Run cold water over eggs until cooled. Peel eggs once cooled and dice small.
  • 8. Pour the water off the potatoes and cut potatoes into bite-size pieces (large dice)
  • 9. In a large bowl, add the dressing ingredients and stir.
  • 10. Add the cut up vegetables to the dressing in the large bowl and stir.
  • 11. Store potato salad refrigerated until ready to serve.

Recipe makes approximately 8 cups potato salad

Join Chef Char at Kitchen 242 in the Muskegon Farmers Market for cooking classes! Tickets for

classes are available at www.eventbrite.com.

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