The BEST Instant Pot Potato Salad is made with gold potatoes cooked together with whole eggs on top. No steamer basket or special equipment is needed.
I’m all about Instant Pot recipes that actually save me time! I’m always working to develop all-in-one instant pot meals that allow me to dump everything in the pot for an easy dinner, like this popular Instant Pot Chicken and Rice and IP Chicken and Sausage Jambalaya.
Instant Pot Potato Salad
I will never make potato salad any other way than this instant pot potato salad! I love that you don’t have to boil a pot of water, the eggs are cooked at the same time, in the same pot, and I’m not babysitting anything as it cooks! Both the potatoes and eggs get cooked perfectly, and making putting together the rest of the potato salad is so easy!
This recipe is adapted from my favorite Traditional Potato Salad, so if you don’t have an instant pot, you can use that recipe! Let me teach you how to use your instant pot!
How to make Instant Pot Potato Salad:
- Add water and chopped potatoes to the bottom of the instant pot.
- Place the eggs on top of the potatoes.
- Cook on high pressure/manual for 4 minutes; quick release.
- Separate egg yolks from the whites of the hard-boiled eggs and place the yolks in a bowl.
- Mash the yolks with a fork and then stir in the mayonnaise, buttermilk, mustard, a splash of pickle juice, and salt and pepper, to taste.
- Pour the dressing over the warm potatoes, add chopped egg whites, celery, onion, and pickles.
- Stir well, cover, and refrigerate for a few hours to allow the flavors to blend.
Potatoes; skin or no skin?
Feel free to make instant pot potato salad with or without potato skins, depending on your preference. I personally prefer to peel the potatoes beforehand.
Can you make potato salad ahead of time?
Yes, you can make instant pot potato salad 2-3 day’s ahead of time. In fact, it’s best to make it a few hours ahead of time to allow the flavors to blend and the salad to cool in the refrigerator.
How to store potato salad:
Store your instant pot potato salad in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 5 days.
Looking for more great recipes Instant Pot recipes? Try these:
- Instant Pot Stroganoff
- Instant Pot Ranch Chicken Pasta
- Instant Pot Tuscan Chicken Pasta
- Instant Pot Ribs
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Recipe
Instant Pot Potato Salad
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 cup water
- 3 pounds Yukon Gold Potatoes
- 3 eggs
- salt and pepper
- 1 cup mayonnaise
- 1/4 cup buttermilk
- 2 Tablespoons yellow mustard (or half dijon mustard)
- 2 ribs celery
- 1/4 cup red onion , chopped
- 2 pickles , minced + splash of pickle juice
Instructions
- Add water and chopped potatoes to the bottom of the instant pot. Place the eggs on top of the potatoes.
- Secure the instant pot lid and turn the valve to sealing.
- Select high pressure/manual and set timer to 4 minutes.
- When the timer beeps, quick release the pressure. Remove the eggs to a bowl of cold water and drain the water from the pot.
- Separate egg yolks from the whites of the hard-boiled eggs and place the yolks in a bowl.
- Mash the yolks with a fork and then stir in the mayonnaise, buttermilk, mustard, a splash of pickle juice, and salt and pepper, to taste.
- Pour the dressing over the warm potatoes. Chop the egg whites and add them to the potatoes along with the celery, onion, and pickles.
- Stir well, cover, and refrigerate for a few hours to allow the flavors to blend.
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I’ve been makin’ tater salad a loooong time and this is without a doubt, the best I have ever made. The buttermilk makes the difference!
I have never made potato salad and have been looking for someone that could make a good homemade potato salad. Never having found that person I figured I would give this recipe a try. So happy I found this recipe and gave it a try. This recipe is so “GOOD”. I would rate this a 10.
The potato salad had good consistency cooked in the Instant Pot, but the flavor was very bland. It definitely needs more mustard or vinegar, or spices of some kind. The eggs were slightly under cooked so the yolks didn’t mix in well with the sauce and were more like chunks of yolk in the salad, but they were very easy to peel and chop up.
Fantastic recipe!! I use it all the time. I make very few changes and it is fantastic as is as well. Thank you for this!
Sorry to say, this was extremely bland. Added tons of extra seasonings to try to give it some life. OTOH, this method of hard boiling eggs works like a charm. I used a 2 tier basket, to avoid nestling the eggs into the potatoes.
Unfortunately the potatoes were so soft it almost was a mashed potato salad. I didn’t have time to restart, but it still tasted really good. Next time I would do maybe even just 3 minutes cooking.