Cauliflower Potato Salad
How to make Low Carb Potato Salad.
Summertime’s a rough time to be on a low-carb diet. When you go to a cookout, you have to ask for your burger without the bun, which isn’t exactly the easiest thing to eat with your fingers. And then, to add insult in injury, you have to pass on that gorgeous potato salad.
It’s really unfair, because most of the stuff in potato salad is perfectly fine on a low-carb diet. All the ingredients that other people worry about – the hard-boiled eggs, the bacon, the mayonnaise – are no problem for you. If only there were some way to make potato salad without the potatoes!
Well, hold on to your hats, folks, because now there is.
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This Cauliflower Potato Salad is a classic potato salad with a twist: instead of potatoes, you use chopped, steamed cauliflower. It sounds crazy, but it works! By the time you get it loaded up with that mayo-mustard dressing, pickles, onion, celery, eggs, and bacon, you can’t even tell the difference.
The beauty part is, you don’t actually have to be on a low-carb diet to enjoy it. Cauliflower Potato Salad is also great for anyone who wants to sneak a few extra veggies onto their plate (or onto their kids’ plates), the tasty way.
Serve this at your next cookout, and no one will even miss the potatoes.
Cauliflower Potato Salad
Printable recipe directions and ingredients at bottom of page.
Directions:
- Boil or steam the cauliflower until fit is just fork tender. For boiling about 4-5 minutes. It is important that you do not cook past fork tender or the cauliflower will make for a mushy potato salad.
- Add in the remaining ingredients, and stir until well combined. Cover the salad and refrigerate for at least 2-3 hours. When ready to serve garnish with fresh dill, chopped bacon and a sprinkle of paprika.
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Cauliflower Potato Salad
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Ingredients
- 5 eggs, hard boiled and chopped
- 1 large head cauliflower, cut into small bite-sized pieces
- 1/4 cup dill pickles finely chopped
- 1/4 cup red onion very finely chopped
- 6 pieces of bacon cooked and chopped, reserve a slice for topping
- 1 1/2 cups mayonnaise
- 1 tablespoon granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon paprika
- 1 tablespoon vinegar
- 1 tablespoon yellow mustard
- 1 cup chopped celery
- fresh dill for topping
Instructions
- Boil or steam the cauliflower until fit is just fork tender. For boiling about 4-5 minutes. It is important that you do not cook past fork tender or the cauliflower will make for a mushy potato salad.
- Add in the remaining ingredients, and stir until well combined. Cover the salad and refrigerate for at least 2-3 hours. When ready to serve garnish with fresh dill, chopped bacon and a sprinkle of paprika.
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Hi Corey,
Love this sub! There is nothing worse than feeling sad and isolated at a cookout when you’re eating your plain burger patty, lol. Love that this makes it so you can get back on the buffet line fun. Can’t wait to try!
Corey, this morning when I saw your recipe for Cauliflower Potato salad, I rushed off to Thrifty’s to get cauliflower and made it shortly there after. Tonight we enjoyed it with our burgers from the grill. When I say ” enjoyed”, that is an understatement. It is a delicious recipe!!! Thank you for adding to our eating delights!!!
Can I use frozen cauliflower steamers ?
You just need to watch the time you cook it Donna. If it cooks too much, you salad will be mushy.
I make this since I’m diabetic and my family likes it as well, healthful for everyone. I’ve even served it to others and they don’t know it’s cauliflower
I just love this Monica! It really is hard to tell it’s cauliflower, right?! So happy everyone loved it!
Hooray for this recipe! We really enjoyed this as part of our Fourth of July Bbq yesterday. THANK YOU so much, it is definitely a keeper!
Awesome Janet! So happy you loved it!!!