Potato Salad

Taste: Quite good.

Cleanup: A few extra things to clean.

Ingredients: All available at Publix

I devised my first recipe from scratch (sort of, I looked up hard boiled eggs and cooked potatoes to get an idea of the times I should use before I invented this). This was basically just things I had leftover from previous recipes.

I large red potato cut into 4 equal sized chunks. Two large eggs. Put cup of water in instant pot, put potato chunks and eggs in a steamer. Lower it into the instant pot. Close the lid and set the valve to pressure. Use manual button and change time to 9 minutes. When it beeps, do a fast pressure release and hoist out the steamer. Cut the potato chunks into smaller chunks. Shell the eggs under running water then cut the eggs into chunks and add to the potatoes. If you've got any dill relish (or pickles you can cut into relish sized chunks), add a spoonful or so to the mix. Squirt in some olive oil mayo, mix it all up, let it cool so you won't burn your mouth, eat it all up. (Or you could stick it in the fridge overnight if you have the patience and prefer cold potato salad). Some diced onions might work as well if you want to toss them in.

This does leave the steamer, the bowl used to mix the salad, and the knife used to cut the potatoes and eggs as extra things to clean (as well as egg shells to deal with).

My latest variation cooked the potatoes and eggs separately in two separate runs of the instant pot. I had some leftover Russet potatoes from a bag, so I stuck five of them (whole, not peeled, just washed) on top of a trivet with one cup of water and cooked them on manual high pressure for 25 minutes.

Release the pressure and stick the pot under running water. You can now peel the potatoes under the water (with the water preventing you from getting scalded). The peels basically come right off the cooked potatoes, especially if you direct the water between the potato and the sheet of peel you are currently pulling on. You can see any black spots and dig them out as well. Put the peeled potatoes in a bowl that can go in the fridge to cool off.

Once you rinse out the pot, you can make boiled eggs using the technique from Egg Salad

When everything has cooled off you can cut the potatoes into cubes, mash up the eggs, and mix them together with other potato salad ingredients (mayo, mustard, pickle relish, chopped onions, take your choice).

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