For Potato Salad Loaded With Flavors, Make It Mexican Style
Potato salad isn't just delicious and convenient; it's like a blank canvas that lets you get creative with flavors and ingredients.
Start with a classic potato salad and mix in the ingredients you'd typically find in elote. Mexican street corn, which marries savory, salty, and spicy flavors, is super easy to make at home — and it's just as simple to add its core components to your favorite potato salad recipe. For the elote ingredients, you'll want the corn (cut off the cob if you choose to grill it), Cotija cheese, sour cream (or Mexican crema), garlic powder, red chili powder, and lime. Once you toss them with the cooked potatoes, creamy mayo, salt, and, depending on your preference, mustard, all ingredients you'll typically find in a potato salad, you'll wind up with a dish that is a little bit potato salad and a little bit elote dip.
The best dishes to pair with Mexican street corn potato salad
One of the great things about potato salad is that you can customize its ingredients to suit your tastes, your menu, and your mood. A classic American-style potato salad is a standard at picnics, barbecues, and sandwich shops — and the possible variations on that dish are practically endless — but this Mexican corn potato salad deserves a rightful place of its own at all of those tables. With flavors that blend both cultures, you can pair it with barbecued ribs as easily as you can with carne asada tacos and everything in between.
When you prepare this salad, be sure to chop the potatoes into small, bite-sized pieces. This way, every bite will deliver on all the ingredients you've used to build the flavor profile, and you can serve this salad with anything you feel needs that special something to round out the meal. It will make a great accompaniment to a range of Mexican dishes like carnitas, enchiladas, or fajitas, and if your potatoes are cut small enough, you can even use the salad for an unexpected dip for snack foods like taquitos. It pairs just as well with a range of American dishes like meatloaf, steak, or grilled chicken, and works just as well cold as it does warmed up, which makes it great to make ahead of time or at the last minute when you need a delicious side in a pinch.
