Potato Salad Made Spicy with Pineapple Habanero Pepper Jelly

Never worry about what to bring to your next family reunion or workplace potluck again, because Texas Pepper Jelly’s awesome Pineapple Habanero Potato Salad is about to become your very best friend. This big bowl of potato salad will make any crowd forget all about anything anybody else may have brought to the table.

The secret is the Texas Pepper Jelly brand of Pineapple Habanero Pepper Jelly. It adds more than just a touch of spicy goodness to this potato salad. You’ll have to make it to see and understand what we are talking about.

We used our pineapple jelly in this recipe. However, we challenge you to make it your own, by selecting your favorite from our habanero jelly lineup and adding it instead of the pineapple flavor.

What is traditional potato salad?

Traditional potato salad is the base for pretty much all homemade potato salad recipes today. As well as, pre-made products in your supermarkets today.

Sometimes you’ll find a traditional recipe for potato salad with eggs. If they don’t include eggs, you will definitely find potatoes, mayo, and a little bit of mustard in all of them.

Now add our ingredients and you get a spicy potato salad version that will be your new go-to recipe.

What goes in our potato salad recipe that makes it spicy?

It is our wonderfully sweet heat balanced Pineapple Habanero Pepper Jelly. We don’t add jalapenos, spices, or hot peppers to the blend of ingredients, the spiciness truly comes from the jelly itself.

Don’t worry, we haven’t totally gone off the rails with our ingredients. Our potato salad recipe has other typical items such as eggs, onion, and pickles, too.

And you can make our recipe a little sweeter by switching out a couple of items on the ingredient list:

• Mayonnaise – Miracle Whip Salad Dressing
• Kosher dill pickles – Sweet Gherkins

It will still have the habanero heat, just a little less noticeable with the salad dressing and sweet pickle adjustments.

What are the best potatoes for potato salad?

You can really use whatever you like.

Think of potatoes like apples. There are a bunch of varieties to choose from, Gala, Mcintosh, Honey Crisp, Granny Smith, and Envy to name a few. In those varieties, you surely have your favorites.

Well, potatoes have their fair share of varieties, too. Red, Carola, Russet, and Fingerlings are some of the more popular.

While not all of them will create the same great meaty texture as a Yukon Gold potato, you still get a flavorful dish. And sometimes more colorful. (This would be when you use the Reds or Fingerlings and leave the skins on) We say – “Use your favorite”.

We just happen to use Yukon Gold potatoes when we throw together our potato salad recipe.

Ingredients:

• 10 large Yukon Gold potatoes, peeled, cubed, boiled, and drained
• 1 green pepper, diced
• 1 red pepper, diced
• 3/4 cup Kosher dill pickles, finely diced
• 1 large onion, diced
• 4 boiled eggs, 3 of them chopped 1 sliced
• 2/3 cup mayonnaise or Miracle Whip
• 1 tablespoon yellow mustard
• 1 cup Texas Pepper Jelly Pineapple Habanero
• pinch of Craig’s Chipotle Seasoning

Directions to put the potato salad together:

Mix everything except the non-chopped egg and Craig’s Chipotle Seasoning together and put it in a nice big serving bowl. Slice the remaining boiled egg and arrange the slices on top of the salad. Sprinkle with a little of the chipotle seasoning. Cover tightly and store it in the refrigerator until just before serving.

When it’s time to eat, remove the cover and set the bowl on the table. Then stand back and watch the bowl get cleaned out! Your guests will go away saying it was the best potato salad they had ever eaten.

Do you need more detailed instructions like how long to boil the potatoes?

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