Recipe Spicy Cajun Potato Salad

[CraigC]

This was in a recent BA magazine. It was pretty good.

Ingredients
5 pounds medium Yukon Gold potatoes, peeled and cut into 3/4-inch cubes
1 large yellow onion
1/2 medium lemon
1/2 teaspoon salt
8 hard-boiled large eggs, chopped
1-1/2 cups mayonnaise with olive oil and coarsely ground pepper
1 cup dill pickle relish
1/4 cup yellow mustard
1 to 2 tablespoons Cajun seasoning (used homemade "Rustic Rub"
1/4 cup minced fresh parsley
Paprika

Directions
1) Place potatoes in a Dutch oven; add water to cover.
2) Cut onion in half crosswise; add one half to saucepan. Bring to a boil.
3) Add lemon and salt to cooking water. Reduce heat; cook, uncovered, until potatoes tender, 5-6 minutes.
4) Meanwhile, chop remaining onion. Combine with eggs, mayonnaise, dill pickle relish, mustard and Cajun seasoning.
5) Drain potatoes; rinse under cold water. Discard onion and lemon.
6) Add potatoes to egg mixture; gently toss until well mixed (do not overmix, or potatoes will break down).
7) Refrigerate 1-2 hours. Just before serving, sprinkle with parsley and paprika.

 

[Morning Glory]

I love potato salad (not with mayo to which I'm intolerant but I substitute yoghurt/Dijon).

Place potatoes in a Dutch oven; add water to cover.

Why a Dutch oven? Then on next line add onion to a saucepan. Does the author mean cook the potato and onion together in a saucepan? Maybe the words mean the same thing in the US and I am being a silly nit-picker. But it confused me.

 

[medtran49]

Yes, you cook the half of the onion with the potato.

A dutch oven is a heavy/heavy bottomed pot with a lid. Traditionally, it was a cast iron pot you could put in a campfire with a flat lid you could put coals on, thus, an "oven," but now it pretty much means the former unless you are camping.

 

[detroitdad]

i must make this