Lightened-Up Creamy Potato Salad Recipe
Jun 27, 2016, Updated Jul 08, 2021
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Lightened-Up Creamy Potato Salad Recipe – Whip up this lightened-up creamy potato salad packed with eggs, avocado and turkey bacon for your next summer picnic or barbecue!
Get ready because we’re about to lighten up this favorite potato salad with a mix of Hellmann’s Carefully Crafted Dressing & Sandwich Spread + nonfat plain yogurt. Bam. That’s all there’s to it.
O-la friends! Clearly, I am all about salads right now. From pasta salads to potato salads, green salads, too – I’m definitely IN. I’m aso all about cold summer iced teas, ice creams, and flip flops. The best part is that I have like, four more salad recipes in my summer-blogging-arsenal. I often just get on a food streak and binge blog it.
However, because of all that salad making, homemade-dressing shaking, I have settled it. This Creamy Potato Salad is the only side dish I’m making for the rest of Summer 2016. It was THAT good.
This is the kind of salad you eat on a Sunday because, picnics and cookouts, BUT look forward to the few spoons of soggy leftovers that you will have on Monday.
No!? Am I REALLY the only one that likes a soggy salad?! Ha.
Well. Still. It’s the kind of salad that will make you feel all lovely inside because, again, it tastes like picnics and cookouts and that’s always an amazing feeling. Potato Salads + Summer were meant to be. ♥
They are like Ross and Rachel. Brenda and Dylan. Wayne and Garth!
… I desperately need to leave the ’90s …
Aaaaanyway. This recipe is a result of me standing in the kitchen with the fridge door(s) wide open, trying to figure out how to include all the avocados and Hellmann’s Carefully Crafted Dressing & Sandwich Spread in a potato salad. I thought this cookout season I would avoid my usual vinegar and oil drenched salad variety, and punch up my potato salad with a creamy, but light delicious dressing. Thankfully, Hellmann’s delivered, once again.
This dressing is so, so simple, and as long as you don’t tell anyone that there’s yogurt in it until they’re done eating it, it’s all good!
A dressing of nonfat yogurt mixed with Hellmann’s new Carefully Crafted Dressing & Sandwich Spread replaces the heavier dressings found in a traditional potato salad, but it’s still just as good. I promise. Besides, their new Dressing and Sandwich Spread is still just as rich and creamy as you’d expect, but free from cholesterol, eggs, and artificial colors and flavors.
I can’t help but love potato salad. It’s simple, it’s summery, it’s fresh and zesty, and you can add a million things to it, just as I did. This combination is everything my heart ever wanted in the homemade no-mayo potato salad food department and we loved it.
You are also GONNA LOVE IT.
ENJOY!
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Lightened-Up Creamy Potato Salad Recipe
Ingredients
FOR THE POTATO SALAD
- 3 pounds small red-potatoes, , washed and scrubbed
- 4 slices turkey bacon, , cooked to a desired crispness and crumbled
- 4 hard boiled eggs, , diced
- 1 avocado, , diced
- 4 green onions, , thinly sliced
- FOR THE DRESSING
- ½ cup Hellmann's Carefully Crafted Dressing & Sandwich Spread
- ½ cup Plain Nonfat Yogurt
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- Salt and fresh ground pepper, , to taste
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley, , for garnish
- 1 tablespoon crumbled bacon, , for garnish
Instructions
- Put the potatoes in a medium saucepan and cover with cold water.
- Salt the water and bring to a boil over medium heat.
- Cook the potatoes for 15 to 20 minutes, or until tender.
- Drain and put the potatoes under cold running water for a few minutes, or until cooled off.
- Cut the potatoes in quarters and place in a large salad bowl.
- Add crumbled bacon, diced eggs, diced avocado, and sliced green onions to the bowl and set aside.
- In a small mixing bowl, combine Hellmann's Dressing & Sandwich Spread, yogurt, lemon juice, salt and pepper; mix until thoroughly combined.
- Gently mix and stir the dressing into the previously prepared salad.
- Cover and chill for at least 2 hours.
- Garnish with chopped parsley and crumbled bacon.
- Serve.
Nutrition
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This post brought to you by TheFeedFeed & Hellmann’s! All opinions are always 100% my own.
Hi, do you know id the new mayo if gluten free? I can’t seen to get it touch with them.
Thanks
I love potato salad but it’s just so heavy! Love this version, and as always, your photos are sheer perfection!
I really like your version on potato salad. It has so many good things going for it. I want this in my fridge right now!
Love the creamy deliciousness of this Lightened Creamy Potato Salad! Thanks for sharing this recipe 🙂 I wish that the Hellmann’s Carefully Crafted Dressing & Sandwich Spread was available in my area 🙁
I love Hellmann’s! I grew up on another brand which I won’t mention, and when I moved East and tasted Hellmann’s, that was it for me. I’ve never gone back and I never will. I’ve never seen this particular product before…I will be keeping my eyes out! Your potato salad looks fantastic. You can’t have a cookout without it…will definitely have to try this!
This is my kinds of potato salad, and I love the flavors here. I think Ross and Rachel would definitely approve!
This potato salad is perfect for a barbecue! And we’re right in the middle of barbecue season!
That potato salad looks and sounds fabulous! I’ve never seen that Hellman’s product before, I need to check it out!
Hey! Nothing wrong with the 90s. 😉 And this potato salad looks so delicious!