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German Potato Salad

Ingredients

  • 5 lbs yellow/gold potatoes
  • 12 slices bacon think
  • 1 medium onion diced
  • 2 stalks celery diced
  • 3/4 cup vinegar
  • 1/4 cup sugar
  • 1 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 3/4 teaspoon black pepper
  • green onion for garnish

Instructions

  • Wash the potatoes and boil them until you can stick a fork or knife in them and it slides out easily.
  • Drain the potatoes.
  • You can cook the potatoes the day ahead and refrigerate them, when they are cold then you just peel back the skin with a knife and then dice them.
  • If you are cooking the potatoes and going to serve them immediately, score the skin of the potatoes with a knife around the middle and when they are finished cooking you can easily peel the skin off and then cut the potatoes.
  • Next heat up the bacon, you can start with uncooked bacon, cooked bacon, turkey bacon what every you like. I used cooked bacon and cut it into pieces and crisped it up in a skillet.
  • Remove the bacon from the pan.
  • Add in the onion and celery and saute until slightly tender.
  • Add in the vinegar, sugar, salt and pepper
  • Then place the diced potatoes into the skillet and distribute the sauce over the potatoes along with half the bacon
  • remove from heat when all the potatoes are heated and the sauce has coated them completely.
  • Stir in the remaining bacon and top the dish with some diced green onion.