Sometimes I like to make summer food when it's not summer. I guess if I'm eating summer food, I can pretend it's summer for a short time or at least feel optimistic that summer will actually be here again one day.
This Pierogi Potato Salad is a simple and unique take on potato salad. If you are looking for potluck ideas and love perogies, you will love this gluten-free Perogy Potato Salad recipe.
Cold Pierogi Salad
With bacon, cheese, sauerkraut, potato and onion, this cold pierogi salad is like a loaded pierogi but in potato salad form! It's easy to make and oh so delicious! You can make it for a potluck, a summer BBQ or even when you are camping/glamping in the summer! It is an easy potato salad that transports well and requires very little space to prepare.
Award-winning Pierogi Potato Salad
This recipe won 2nd place in the Go RV'ing: Canada's RV Friendly recipe contest in 2013.
Photo Courtesy of Go-RVing-Canada
Leftover Dry Cottage Cheese
This recipe is also a great use of leftover dry cottage cheese! I often buy it to make perogies and end up with leftovers. And if you buy it specifically for this recipe and have leftovers, then you can use it in these Perogy Zucchini Boats, Ukrainian Slow Cooker Casserole , Ukrainian Breakfast Sandwich or this Ukrainian Breakfast Hash as well!
Pierogi Salad
I adore tasty summer food that requires very little effort because well, life is short and so is summer. You can prep this pierogi salad in the evening when it's a bit cooler (no oven required, just stove top) then throw it together quickly the next day and you're off to enjoy your sunny summer festivities!
But it really makes a great dish anytime of the year. If you are looking for a unique potato salad recipe, look no further! This Ukrainian twist on good old fashioned potato salad is a real crowd pleaser!
Here are a couple of BBQ dishes that go great with this salad!
and for dessert....
Perogy/Pierogi Potato Salad
Ingredients
- 2 (2 pound or .9 kg) pkgs of little/baby potatoes (rainbow pack – includes red, yellow, white, purple and blue potatoes ¾ ” – 1 ⅝ ”)
- 6 hard boiled eggs
- ⅓ cup + 1 tbsp dry curd cottage cheese (90 ml)
- ⅔ cup bacon bits (best to use the ‘real’ bacon bits) (150 ml)
- ¾ cup sauerkraut(from jar) (175 ml)
- 2 tbsp liquid from sauerkraut jar (30 ml)
- ⅔ cup mayonnaise (I use Hellman’s) (150 ml)
- ½ cup radishes, finely chopped (125 ml)
- ½ cup green onions , finely chopped (125 ml)
- 1 tbsp Dijon mustard (15 ml)
- paprika to garnish
Instructions
- Cook potatoes in boiling water until fork goes easily into them but they are still firm (about 15 minutes).
- Drain, cool and refrigerate potatoes until cold (up to an hour).
- Cook eggs in boiling water until hard boiled (about 10-12 minutes).
- Remove eggs from heat and run under cold water, let sit in cold water for 10 minutes, then refrigerate (still in cold water) until cold (up to an hour) and then peel.
- Cut each cold potato into 2 pieces (* this will depend on the size of the potato, I cut some into 4 pieces and don't even cut the really small ones). Cut each egg into 4 pieces.
- Mix all the remaining ingredients together in a bowl. Add the potatoes and eggs and mix.
- Sprinkle with paprika and refrigerate until ready to serve
Notes
Nutrition
More Pierogi Recipes!
Perogy Zucchini Boats (Gluten-free & WW friendly): Healthy Ukrainian Food
Ukrainian Style Eggs- Egg dinner recipe
Easy Pierogi Stuffed Mushrooms- Weight Watchers Friendly
This post is part of The Country Cook's Weekend Potluck!
It sounds delicious but most of all easy enough that I could actually make it! now I'm feeling hungry. 🙂
Thanks Sue! Yes, it's really simple but with that little twist that elevates it above the everyday potato salad. I hope you enjoy!
I'm so with you on making summer food in winter! I need some summer in my life right now and this kind of picnic food sounds perfect to me! Never thought of putting sauerkraut in potato salad, but it sounds delicious 🙂
Hi Ann,
Thanks! Yes, the sauerkraut does really works in it! We had this salad for supper last night and my family devoured it!
This looks like a yummy salad recipe so good for picnics. I am bookmarking it to make it for our cottage trip this coming summer. Thanks so much for sharing.
Thanks, Fouzia! I hope you enjoy it.
I have to admit that I've never thought to use cottage cheese in a potato salad before, but it sounds like a wonderful twist on the traditional mayo-based dressings... plus the bacon and the sauerkraut and the radishes sound like they'd add tons of delicious flavour. Personally, I'd have given this recipe first prize if I was running that contest! 🙂
Hi Isabelle: thanks! Yes, the dry cottage cheese curd is different (not moist, like regular cottage cheese). My husband's grandma used it in her perogies all the time. And I wish you were running the contest! 🙂
Hi Isabelle: thanks! Yes, the dry cottage cheese curd is different (not moist, like regular cottage cheese). My husband's grandma used it in her perogies all the time. And I wish you were running the contest! 🙂