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Best potato salad recipes

These potato salad recipes make the perfect summer side dish.

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Potato salads are so deliciously easy to make, and a great side dish to have with your BBQ or al fresco dining.

Whether you want to make a mayonnaise-based potato salad, one drizzled with lemon, or even a warm potato salad - here are some delicious options.

If you're looking for a lighter salad option to serve alongside BBQ'd chicken or brisket, then we have plenty of green salads to choose from.

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Pesto Potato Salad

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Super simple and packed with flavour: you’ll never buy potato salad again!

Recipe: Pesto Potato Salad

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Potato salad with artichokes and capers - best potato salad recipes 2021

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Forget heavy mayonnaise in potato salad, these naturally creamy Jersey Royals are dressed with a delicious and summery piquant vinaigrette.

Recipe: ​Potato salad with artichokes and capers


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Warm salmon potato salad recipe - best potato salad recipes 2021

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A simple, healthy salad that is nutritious and sustaining. The perfect way to cook salmon differently.

Recipe: Warm salmon potato salad

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Light and Fresh Potato Salad - best potato salad recipes 2021

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A perennial favourite at a buffet, this salad is lightened with a flavoursome mustard dressing, rather than being drowned in mayonnaise.

Recipe: Light and fresh potato salad



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Hot Beef and Potato salad

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Feeling hungry? Tuck into this hearty salad.

Recipe: Hot beef and potato salad

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Light potato salad

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This potato salad is not only light and delicious, but will make the perfect side dish to a roasted lamb.

Recipe: Light potato salad

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New potato salad with caper dressing

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Capers and new potatoes are a heavenly combination.

Recipe: New potato salad with caper dressing

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Minted new potato and asparagus salad

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This great new potato salad makes the most of Summer’s fresh flavours.

Recipe: Minted new potato and asparagus salad

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Lemon and herb potato salad

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The simplicity of this lemon and herb potato salad is hard to beat.

Recipe: Lemon and herb potato salad

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Hot potato and pepper salad

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Use waxy salad potatoes for this hot potato and pepper salad.

Recipe: Hot potato and pepper salad

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Salmoriglio potato salad

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The aromatic Italian condiment salmoriglio usually accompanies fish, which makes it ideal to stir through a potato salad to accompany salmon.

Recipe: Salmoriglio potato salad

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Warm new potato salad

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This potato salad recipe is drizzled with punchy dressing containing capers, mustard, tarragon and olive oil.

Recipe: Warm new potato salad

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Potato and chive salad

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This simple potato salad recipe uses just three ingredients.

Recipe: Potato and chive salad

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Speedy potato salad

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Use rocket or spinach instead of watercress, if you prefer, in our easy potato salad.

Recipe: Speedy potato salad

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