This is a warm potato salad, German-style! Slices of boiled potato are tossed in a warm, tangy-sweet german potato salad recipe vinaigrette while hot so they absorb the flavour.
They’re then showered with crispy, golden bacon bits and hit with freshness from dill and green onion. This excellent combination of flavours and textures makes this quite possibly my all-time favourite potato salad! What’s so good about this German Potato Salad? For one, it’s the hot slices of boiled potato that are tossed in a slightly sweet, warm bacon-studded vinaigrette so they soak up the flavour. The whole lot then gets a hit of green and fresh flavour with a good helping of green onions and dill. The combination of salty-sweet-savoury with herby freshness turns an otherwise ordinary potato salad into something magic! They say parents shouldn’t have a favourite child.
If potato salads were my children though, I’d openly say it’s my favourite child! Regular readers know my other Potato Salad Children, whom I also dearly dote on. The classic creamy mayo based one. We need the fat as the bacon renders for the warm, bacon and cider vinegar vinaigrette.
This dressing is supposed to be sweet and savoury. Any neutral oil will do fine here. The fresh elements in this dish. The dill in particular works so well in this potato salad! 15 minutes to cook, depending on the size. Start checking early because you want the potatoes very slightly firm in the centre. This is because they will continue cooking as they cool and you don’t want them to overcook and become too soft.