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.
More Side Dishes:
- Carrot Puree with Ginger
- Creamed Pearl Onions
- Oven Roasted Broccoli
- Simple Roasted Brussels Sprouts
- Best Crockpot Cheesy Potatoes
- Pull-Apart Potato Rolls Recipe
- Crescent Rolls Recipe
- Aunt Nancie’s Sweet Potato Soufflé
- Cornbread Casserole with Cheese and Green Onions
- Skillet Green Beans + 7 Variations
Potato Salad Bake
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
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.
Marsha | Marsha's Baking Addiction says
This dish looks absolutely delicious! Yum!!
Jillian says
Thanks, Marsha!
Mary @ StrawmarySmith says
Yum this looks like a great side dish for Easter! Thanks for sharing!
Jillian says
Thanks for stopping by!
Annemarie @ justalittlebitofbacon says
What a great idea for Easter dinner, especially since you’d have a lot of people to help you eat it. 🙂 Why choose one yummy potato dish when you can have two?
Jillian says
Exactly, I like how you think! 😉
peter @feedyoursoultoo says
Love potatoes and cheese and you have a lot of cheese working here. Yum.
Jillian says
This dish certainly does!
Nancy Gipson says
Yummy! I made it with baked potatoes and left the skin on.
Jillian says
Nancy, I’m so glad you enjoyed this recipe! Thnks for stopping by. 🙂
kelsey says
This sounds odd but could you add eggs to this? (like a classic cold potato salad?) The only reason I ask is I already boiled eggs intending to make regular potato salad but then stumbled on your recipe which looks wonderful! Just wondering if adding boiled eggs would make it weird 😉 Thanks!
Jillian says
You absolutely can! Let me know how it turns out!