Potato salad with a bold and tangy dressing flavored with chipotle, scallions and a hint of lime. Not your ordinary potato salad.

Who doesn’t love a great tasting potato salad?

This potato salad’s secret to awesome taste is it’s dressing! It starts with a mayonnaise base flavored with chipotle peppers, scallions, a whisper of cilantro and a hint of lime.

I made this with red-skinned potatoes. That variety is perfect for potato salad because their texture is a bit waxy and they don’t fall apart when cooked and cut. Plain white all-purpose potatoes will do too, as well as Yukon golds, but avoid russet and Idaho. The latter are best used as baked potatoes or to make mashed potatoes because of their mealy, fluffy texture.

When cooking the potatoes, the secret to great-tasting potatoes is to make sure the water has enough salt added. Chefs say that the water should taste like the sea. I usually add about a tablespoon of coarse (kosher) salt to about a quart of water.

The Chipotle Scallion Dressing (also linked below in the recipe) was originally from a recipe for sweet potato salad. This salad is also wonderful with sweet potatoes, but I came to prefer this dressing used on regular potatoes. If you use sweet potatoes instead, add about 1/4 cup of crisp bacon to the mix. You can also add the bacon when using regular potatoes. EVERYTHING tastes better with bacon!

You don’t have to reserve this dressing just for potato salad. It makes a very nice sandwich spread too–try it with turkey breast in a sandwich–it’s super!

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Chipotle Scallion Potato Salad

Potato salad with a bold and tangy dressing flavored with chipotle, scallions and a hint of lime. Not your ordinary potato salad.

Prep Time10 minutes mins

Cook Time10 minutes mins

Total Time20 minutes mins

Course: Dips/Sauces/Dressings, salads

Cuisine: American

Keyword: CHIPOTLE, potato salad, scallion

Servings: 4 -6

Calories: 165kcal

Author: Judith Hannemann

Ingredients

• 2 lbs cooked red or Yukon gold potatoes cut in chunks or sliced (see NOTES)
• 1 recipe for Chipotle Scallion Dressing
• 1/4 cup crisp cooked bacon diced (optional)

Instructions

• Place cut potatoes in a large bowl.
• Add the bacon if using.
• Add desired amount of dressing
• Chill for about 2 hours

Notes

You may also use cooked and sliced sweet potatoes.

Nutrition

Serving: 1serving | Calories: 165kcal | Carbohydrates: 28g | Protein: 8g | Fat: 3g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 7mg | Sodium: 146mg | Potassium: 972mg | Fiber: 6g | Sugar: 1g | Vitamin C: 26mg | Calcium: 68mg | Iron: 7mg

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Scallion Cream Cheese Poppers

What a wonderful and tasty appetizer or snack.  Super easy too!

I’ve been making these for years now.  They are easy peasy, and mix up in a jiffy.

All you need are scallions (green/spring onions) softened cream cheese and egg roll skins.

You can’t eat just one!

I tend to make them a little larger, with maybe a tablespoon or so of the filling rolled up egg roll style in the larger skin.

You can, however, make them smaller in wonton skins.  For that you’d use far less filling–a scant teaspoon.

In a pinch, fresh or dehydrated chives may be used in place of the scallions.

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Scallion Cream Cheese Poppers

These Scallion Cream Cheese Poppers are a wonderful and tasty appetizer or snack.  Super easy too!

Prep Time15 minutes mins

Cook Time7 minutes mins

Total Time22 minutes mins

Course: Appetizers

Cuisine: American

Keyword: cream cheese, poppers recipe, scallion

Servings: 12

Calories: 103kcal

Author: Judith Hannemann

Ingredients

• 8 oz cream cheese softened
• 2 scallions green onion chopped very fine
• 1/2 tsp pepper
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 12 egg roll skins
• oil for frying
• water for sealing egg roll skins

Instructions

• In a small bowl, mix cream cheese, scallions, salt and pepper.
• Place about 1 tablespoon of filling at one end of an egg roll skin. Roll up as you would an egg or spring roll. Repeat until filling is gone.
• Heat enough oil for deep frying in a large, deep skillet or wok to 375 degrees. Fry a few poppers at a time–don’t overload the pan as it will bring down the temperature of the oil.
• Fry until golden brown on each side, about 5-7 minutes total. Remove with slotted spoon to paper towel covered plate.

Nutrition

Serving: 1servoing | Calories: 103kcal | Carbohydrates: 8g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 7g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Cholesterol: 22mg | Sodium: 232mg | Potassium: 42mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 1g | Vitamin A: 274IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 26mg | Iron: 1mg

Scallion Cream Cheese Poppers – creamy inside

Scallion Cream Cheese Poppers

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