Potato Salad Bake

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This Potato Salad Bake is your favorite potato salad recipe turned into a warm and cheesy gratin casserole. It’s your new favorite side dish!

Whether you have ham, lamb, chicken, or fish for Easter dinner, chances are you’ll have potatoes. Potatoes in some form or another like mashed potatoes, scalloped potatoes, or potatoes gratin.

While all of these choices are entirely delicious, this Easter, I want to make a potato dish that’s a little different. And this recipe is different!

Potato Salad Bake

So let’s state the obvious; this recipe is a caloric black hole. Seriously, it just may be the more decadent savory dish I have ever made.

So with that, I suggest eating carrots and nothing but carrots, the entire week leading up to Easter. Seriously eat carrots!

This side dish is your favorite potato salad recipe that meets cheesy gratin potatoes that are baked to bubbly perfection.

Cook’s Note:

• This Potato Salad Bake can be made ahead of time and baked just before serving. Just make the potato salad all the way up to baking, and cover it with foil and refrigerate until baking. You can refrigerate it up to 24 hours in advance.
• I do not recommend freezing this recipe, because the texture will turn grainy upon defrosting. 

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• Aunt Nancie’s Sweet Potato Soufflé
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Potato Salad Bake

This Potato Salad Bake is your favorite potato salad recipe turned into a warm and cheesy gratin casserole. It’s your new favorite side dish!

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Course: Side Dish

Cuisine: American

Keyword: potatoes

Prep Time: 25 minutes

Cook Time: 55 minutes

Total Time: 1 hour 20 minutes

Servings: 10 people

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Calories: 501kcal

Author: Jillian - a Food, Folks and Fun original!

Ingredients

• 6 bacon slices cut into 2-inch pieces
• 4 pounds russet potatoes peeled and cut into 1 ½ -inch pieces
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup mayonnaise
• ½ cup sour cream
• ¾ cup milk
• 3 Tablespoons dill pickle juice plus 1/4 cup finely chopped dill pickles
• 1 Tablespoon yellow mustard
• ½ teaspoon ground black pepper
• 1 teaspoon celery seed
• ½ cup chopped yellow onion
• 1 cup sliced pimiento-stuffed Spanish olives
• 2 cups shredded cheddar cheese

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Instructions

• Adjust oven rack to middle position and preheat to 325 degrees F. Spray 9x13-inch pan with non-stick cooking spray; set aside.
• Cook bacon in large pan over medium heat until chewy, but not crispy, about 4-6 minutes. Move to paper towel-lined plate to drain until ready to use.
• Place potatoes in large pot with cold water to cover by 1 inch. Bring to boil over high heat, add 1 teaspoon salt, and reduce heat to medium-low, simmer until potatoes are fork-tender (but NOT mushy), 10-14 minutes.
• While potatoes boil whisk together mayonnaise, sour cream, milk, pickle juice, pickle, mustard, pepper, and celery seed in a large bowl. Once potatoes are done, drain and add them to bowl along with olives and cheese. Fold until potatoes are coated evenly.
• Pour potato mixture into prepared pan and top with bacon. Bake for 45-55 minutes, or until bubbly and bacon is crisp. Serve immediately.

Notes

Store leftovers in the refrigerator for up to 4 days. 

Nutrition

Calories: 501kcal | Carbohydrates: 36g | Protein: 13g | Fat: 35g | Saturated Fat: 11g | Cholesterol: 50mg | Sodium: 923mg | Potassium: 867mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 3g | Vitamin A: 395IU | Vitamin C: 11mg | Calcium: 234mg | Iron: 2mg

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