Olive Potato Salad

Thursday, June 8, 2017
Olive Potato Salad is a delicious twist on Classic Southern Style Potato Salad. Olive Potato Salad is made with russet potatoes, ripe green olives, black olives, easy peel hard boiled eggs, celery, roasted red pepper, and spicy garlic dill pickles in a creamy tangy potato salad dressing with fresh dill. Olive Potato Salad is a favorite at barbecues and potlucks. 

If you love Potato Salad Recipes you might also like Dill Pickle Potato Salad, Basic Potato Salad, and Fully Loaded Baked Potato Salad.

A bowl of Olive Potato Salad.
Potato Salad with Olives screams all things summer to me, and I love it! 

With BBQ season finally upon us I couldn't wait to share this Ripe Olive Potato Salad. It's perfect when you're looking for something a little more jazzed up than traditional potato salad. 

The sweet, tangy dressing paired with black olives, green olives, and spicy dill pickles makes Ripe Olive Potato Salad a potluck favorite! 

I was lucky enough to have been invited to The Culinary Institute of America CIA to learn about California Ripe Olives, spend time talking with the growers, and enjoying delicious food using olives, including dessert! Yes, dessert too, and it was AMAZING! 

California Ripe Olive Committee is comprised of two family-owned canning facilities, and close to 1,000 growers. The canners, and growers take great pride in producing a high quality product. I was surprised to learn a large portion of California Ripe Olives are still hand harvested. 

Also, if an olives falls on the ground during harvest it has to be discarded.

Not all ripe olives are cured the same way as California Ripe Olives. The secret to purchasing really firm, and delicious Ripe Olives is making sure the labels marked California Ripe Olives. 

Other canned olives aren't processed the same way.

Here's how to make Olive Potato Salad:

A pile of Ripe Green Olives being sliced for Olive Potato Salad.

Ripe Olive Potato Salad starts out with 3/4 cup Sliced California Ripe Green Olives. Ripe Green Olives don't have the bite of traditional green olives.

A pile of Sliced Black Olives for Olive Potato Salad.
Then add 3/4 cup Sliced California Ripe Black Olives. 

Did you know the only difference between California Ripe Green and Black Olives is that the black olives have pure oxygen that is bubbled through the olives giving them their black color.

Cooked sliced and peeled potatoes in a bowl for Olive Potato Salad.

Boil 8 whole Medium Sized Russet Potatoes in skin until tender when poked, about 35-50 minutes.

Allow potatoes to cool, remove skins, and dice into bite sized pieces.

Easy Peel Hard Boiled Eggs in a stainless steel saucepan cooling for Olive Potato Salad.

Hard boil 6 whole Eggs in a medium sized pan. I used my recipe for Easy Peel Hard Boiled Eggs so the shell just slips off.

I've found this the easiest way to get the shell to release from the eggs.

A large bowl filled with diced potato, sliced black olives, sliced green olives, diced egg, diced celery, diced onion, diced roasted red pepper, and diced spicy dill pickles.

Add: 
  • California Ripe Olives
  • Peeled and Diced Eggs
  • 1 cup Chopped Celery
  • 1/3 cup Diced Red Onion
  • 1/4 cup Diced Roasted Red Pepper
  • 1/3 cup Diced Spicy Dill Pickles
Note: Roasted Red Peppers can be found jarred near the olives, and pickles.

A medium stainless steel bowl with mayonnaise, greek yogurt, sugar, white wine vinegar, Dijon Mustard, granulated garlic, salt, and pepper.

In a second bowl stir together:
  • 2/3 cup Mayonnaise
  • 2/3 cup Plain Greek Yogurt
  • 1/3 Granulated Sugar
  • 1/4 cup White Wine Vinegar
  • 1 tablespoon Grainy Dijon Mustard
  • 3/4 teaspoon Granulated Garlic
  • 1 teaspoon Salt
  • 1 teaspoon Pepper

Fresh Chopped Dill added to Potato Salad with Olives in a large bowl.

Add 1 tablespoon Fresh Chopped Dill, and dressing to potato mixture.

Stir until well combined, and refrigerate until cold.

A bowl of Potato Salad with Black Olives and Green Olives.

I really just can't get enough of this Olive Potato Salad. It's all things delicious in one perfect bite! 

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Olive Potato Salad

Olive Potato Salad

Olive Potato Salad is sweet, tangy with black olives, and spicy dill pickles a favorite for barbecues and potluck side dish recipe from Serena Bakes Simply From Scratch.
Prep time: 20 MinCook time: 50 MinInactive time: 5 HourTotal time: 6 H & 10 M

Ingredients

  • 8 whole Medium Sized Russet Potatoes
  • 6 whole Eggs
  • 3/4 cup California Ripe Green Olives, Sliced
  • 3/4 cup California Black Olives, Sliced
  • 1 cup Celery, Diced
  • 1/3 cup Red Onion, Diced
  • 1/4 cup Roasted Red Pepper, Diced
  • 1/3 cup Spicy Garlic Dill Pickles, Chopped
  • 2/3 cup Mayonnaise
  • 2/3 cup Plain Greek Yogurt
  • 1/3 cup Granulated Sugar
  • 1/4 cup White Wine Vinegar
  • 1 tablespoon Grainy Dijon Mustard
  • 3/4 teaspoon Granulated Garlic
  • 1 teaspoon Salt
  • 1 teaspoon Pepper
  • 1 tablespoon Fresh Dill, Chopped

Instructions

  1. In a large pot add potatoes. Cover with water and bring to a boil. Cook until tender when pierced with a fork, about 35-50 minutes. Cool potatoes, peel, and dice.
  2. Place eggs in a medium sized pan. Fill with water halfway up eggs, and cover. Bring to a boil over high-heat, reduce heat to low, and cook for 10 minutes. Run under cold water, until cool. Peel, and dice.
  3. In a large bowl combine potatoes, eggs, olives, celery, onion, roasted red pepper, and spicy dill pickles.
  4. In a small bowl stir together mayonnaise, yogurt, sugar, white wine vinegar, grainy mustard, garlic, salt, pepper, and dill, until well combined.
  5. Refrigerate until cold.

Nutrition Facts

Calories

304.48

Fat

15.04 g

Sat. Fat

2.71 g

Carbs

34.72 g

Fiber

3.87 g

Net carbs

30.85 g

Sugar

8.00 g

Protein

8.32 g

Sodium

658.33 mg

Cholesterol

98.79 mg
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A bowl of Potato Salad with Black and Green Olives in a tangy potato salad dressing.

Olive Potato Salad is a delicious variation of traditional Potato Salad for Picnic and Barbecue Side Dish Recipe. Sweet and tangy with ripe green and black olives with spicy garlic dill pickles from Serena Bakes Simply From Scratch.


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