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Slam64
Lv 5
Slam64 asked in Food & DrinkCooking & Recipes · 1 decade ago

I need help with my potato salad!?

I screwed up 2 times with the same potato salad. First, there is way too much salt and then I got carried away with my jalapenos. It tastes like spicy hot salt. I don't want to add any more potatoes because I don't want to eat it for a week. Is there anything else I can do?

Update:

okay, we like spicy food, just not as spicy as I ACCIDENTLY made the salad. And I always add salt and black pepper to my potato salad among other things. I'm gonna try rinsing it and see where it gets me.

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  • 1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    maybe you could rinse everything off the potatoes and start over.

  • Noccie
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    I've rinsed off potato salad successfully. A person brought it to a barbeque I was having and it was just nasty. I put the potato salad is a spaghetti strainer and shook it like crazy till most of the dressing was off and then made my own dressing. Try that, but when you make the dressing leave out the salt and jalepenos because those flavors will probably still be there.

  • 1 decade ago

    Uh, why did you add jalapenos to potato salad? If you have a sieve then you can push the potatoes through it and the jalapenos will not go through.

    Try adding a bit of milk to offset the salt.

  • 1 decade ago

    What potato salad calls for salt and jalapenos? Just curious, never heard of a tater salad where you add salt and jalapenos.

  • 1 decade ago

    Potato Salad will go bad before a week if you have mayo and eggs in it

    Making it a week in advance is not a good idea. why not rinse to potatoes and wait till closer to the time you want to eat it to put the dressing on it.

  • 1 decade ago

    I'd actually rinse it off and go from there...and I wouldn't be adding jalapenos to potato salad.

  • 1 decade ago

    Im afraid youre sunk.

    Once potatoes are cooked, there is no way to reduce the salt you threw in. Further, unless you stand there with tweezers and remove the bits of jalepeno, you can't undo that part either.

    It is what it is - serve it or throw it out. Learn from this.

  • flower
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Add a little more mayo and olive juice.

  • venesa
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    a bit of sour cream or double cream.

    don't add mayo that is salty, if it's not salty, you can add...

    maybe balsamic vinegar.

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