Cook like a Swede! 12 Svensk Potatissallad (Swedish Potato Salad) recipes

[Celerity]

Google can auto translate for you, and my snapshots use this for you, the links to the actual recipes are at the top link

https://www.ica.se/buffe/artikel/godaste-potatissalladerna/



Potato salad must be one of the most delicious accessories for grilled food! Here we talk about 12 great varieties of potato salad and which protein they are best suited to serve as an accessory to.

[SkatmanRoth]

1. Somebody tell taterguy about #8. Fresh potatoes and arugula.

We all know how much taterguy loves to grow arugula.

[smirkymonkey]

2. Yum!

I love summer vegetable salads! I prefer the potato salads w/out mayonnaise. They all look great though!

Hopefully, things will get better in time for some summer cookouts.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Those are some great recipes but I don't think they are necessarily Swedish.

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My mother made #1 and #9 and variations for about as long as I can remember.

[Celerity]

4. oh, I am sure that overall they are not at all exclusively of Swedish origin

Many though are extremely popular, and other than Germany, I have never seen a country (let alone one our size) with a greater variety of types that are common. I am a potato freak overall, not just in potatissallad, and I am in quasi heaven here, Overall we have far more choice than our neighbours do. London was also wonderful for potatoes and types and variety and quality as well.

One thing that I have always been amazed with about Sweden is how much of our daily food and goods (in certain sectors for goods) are actually Swedish made or grown or raised. That and just how many institutions have a completely Swedish input or option. It really is like a shrunken down major nation in terms of the domestic versions of most things. Hell, up until recently, we had TWO major global automobile manufacturers (Saab and Volvo. GM in the United States fucked Saab hard, (IMHO, the US courts sided with GM, and I would NEVER buy a GM product) blocked multiple partial sales to Chinese backers despite no longer even being a partial owner at all, and so it (just the car division) Saab auto went bankrupt in 2012.) That (2 major auto brands) alone is amazing for a nation of only 7, 8, 9 million (our population for most of the time Post WWII those two brands were globally sold.)

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. Maybe the reason I'm so familiar with those potato salad varieties

is that I grew up in and still live in a state where there are a lot of descendants of Swedish and Norwegian immigrants (1.6 million, including me), and potato salad and other potato dishes feature heavily in Scandinavian cuisine. I grew up with that kind of potato salad and never thought to wonder where it came from.

I used to know a car mechanic who specialized exclusively in repairing Saabs. He thought they were the best cars ever but that they were tricky to repair and hardly anybody did it right. I still see them here and there. GM is sort of predatory I guess. They bought and stopped making Saturns, too, which annoyed me no end. I've got one that I like very much and would buy another if they still were being made.

[Celerity]

6. +100000

[whistler162]

7. Swedish potato salad #13

potatoes
eggs
mayo
chives

just like my Swedish-American mother makes.