How to Make Martha Stewart's Potato Salad | Martha's Cooking School | Martha Stewart

[Music] every family has its favorite recipe for potato salad today i'm sharing a costira favorite it's naturally sweet and creamy and it uses sweet and creamy red skinned potatoes that are dressed with a little mayonnaise vinegar and herbs and then topped with sliced hard-boiled eggs and into a steamer basket a little bit of salt water to the top of the steamer basket add five pounds of red potatoes these are red bliss you could also use the small white potato but i just like the idea of using the red it's a very flavorful potato don't skimp on the water underneath the basket make sure you have plenty because you don't want that to boil away during the 25 minutes or so that it takes to cook the potatoes until they're tender to the point of a sharp knife so here the potatoes are perfectly cooked they're still warm the skins will just peel off as you can see so very easy use a little paring knife and if there are any little brown spots you can just slice them off you don't want those little brown spots chuchi kasha who i learned this recipe from tachikasha means aunt catherine in polish made the best potato salad so here we have our bowl of sliced potatoes now to this we add one white onion it's a medium onion and we have finely finely grated it on a wood rasp this really is important to do to grate it finely you don't want big pieces of onion in the potato salad and you want it almost undiscernable you just don't want to know that it's there you want to taste it a half a cup of distilled white vinegar you could use cider vinegar but chuchi kasha always used white vinegar in her potato salad she also used about a teaspoon full a little heaping teaspoonful of sugar and about a half a teaspoon to a teaspoon of salt so i'll do a little bit more than a half a teaspoon lots of black pepper and one cup of mayonnaise mixed with about a cup of buttermilk now sometimes if she didn't have buttermilk she would use water but i like using just the buttermilk and you can use a low-fat buttermilk or a whole fat buttermilk and if you don't have buttermilk you could use whole milk thickened with the white vinegar that you just poured into the salad that makes a very tasty homemade buttermilk so see how nice and creamy that looks without being cream and now add your potatoes and we're not going to stir we're not going to use a spoon on the potatoes the way we're going to mix is to pour back and forth from bowl to bowl you can also add some chopped cornichon or sliced cornichon you can also use dill pickles very finely chopped which are very delicious or you could use a sweet gherkin also so here we're just going to pour from bowl to bowl and as this sits it gets thicker as the milk and mayonnaise gets absorbed into the cooked potatoes see how good this looks and it has to be chilled this will be really really tasty in a couple of hours so look how beautiful it looks i love it that's a good mix so then a little bit of a toss looks watery but this will get absorbed into the potatoes as they chill if using a mayonnaise-based dressing it's best to let the potatoes cool a little so that the mayonnaise doesn't melt and become oily these are plenty cool for the mayonnaise it's very important to chill the potato salad before serving and garnishing with hard-boiled egg so here's our potato salad and put this into your serving bowl and again sometimes chachi kasha aunt catherine would garnish with hard-boiled eggs if it were for a picnic or if she were selling this in the deli there would be no hard-boiled eggs just a sprinkling of parsley and sometimes dill level it off a little bit you see how nice and moist it is very pretty and then with your knife we've already sliced the eggs these can go around the perimeter of the bowl and they'll get mixed in and people get a little bit of egg make sure your eggs are not too hard-boiled these are 13-minute eggs which means you bring the eggs to a boil turn off the heat and cover for 13 minutes that's generally a perfect hard-boiled egg and a nice sprinkling of parsley and here you have a beautiful potato salad thanks to jochi kasha crew car from jersey city new jersey and whether at a picnic a barbecue or a holiday dinner everyone loves potato salad

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Length: 5min 44sec (344 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 08 2022