Vegan Sour Cream and Onion Potato Salad

Sour Cream and Onion Potato Salad combines your favorite potato chip flavor and potluck side dish! Made with tangy homemade vegan sour cream, tons of savory oniony flavor, and soft tender potatoes, you can skip the potato chips and enjoy this classic combination in one delicious forkful! Healthy, gluten-free, and allergy-free, this easy potato salad recipe will be a hit at every party!

Skip the fried potato chips and swap in some whole healthy spuds for a much more satisfying sour cream and onion flavored eating experience! Vegan sour cream and onion potato salad is the only way to enjoy that tangy, savory, salty combination everyone loves! Much healthier, easy, gluten-free, and allergy-free! It's the perfect potato salad for year-round potlucks, parties, and cookouts!

Why You'll Love This Potato Salad Recipe

Cracking open a bag of Lay's Sour Cream & Onion Potato Chips was an essential summertime BBQ experience! The delightfully mild onion flavor and tangy saltiness of the chips always seemed like a very summertime flavor. Bringing the bright, tangy, savoriness to a potato salad, seemed like a no-brainer! No oil or frying needed, just a quick fork-tender boil of the potatoes for this healthy variation of the classic! This recipe is:

• Gluten-Free
• Vegan & Vegetarian
• Allergy-free (Dairy-Free, Soy-Free, Egg-Free, Nut-Free, Peanut-Free, Wheat-Free, Sesame-Free, Corn-Free, Coconut-Free)
• Grain-Free, Sugar-Free, Oil-Free
• Kid-Friendly
• Quick, Easy, Simple Ingredients
• Make-Ahead & Meal Prep-Friendly
• Perfect Side Dish for Potlucks, Cookouts, & Holidays

Ingredients For Vegan Sour Cream and Onion Potato Salad

• Potatoes: A nice creamy and tender Yukon Gold potato is perfect for potato salad! You can also use red-skinned potatoes or fingerlings. Any waxy potatoes will work beautifully since their skin is paper-thin, no need to peel, and they retain their shape once boiled.
• Onion Flakes: A typical ingredient in soup mixes or French onion dip mix, dehydrated onion flakes will add so much flavor to the potatoes! They are boiled in the water with the potatoes so the flavor seeps into the creamy potatoes' flesh as they cook.
• Vegan Sour Cream: My simple 2-ingredient vegan sour cream is the co-star of the show in this creamy potato salad! Just plain unsweetened vegan yogurt and vinegar make a delicious tangy vegan alternative (you can always use store-bought as well!)
• Vegan Mayo: A few tablespoons of eggless mayo ensure extra creaminess to the potato salad since vegan sour cream is less creamy and thick than its dairy counterpart.
• Dijon Mustard: Dijon adds a savory spice to the creamy dressing.
• Scallions or Chives: Green onion (only the green part) or chives works in this recipe! Both give a nice mild onion flavor that's not too overpowering or strong, while also adding lovely pops of green to brighten up all the beige!
• White Vinegar: A few teaspoons of white vinegar adds extra tang to the vegan sour cream dressing.
• Seasonings: Lots of onion powder, garlic powder, black pepper, and salt! You can adjust all of these to taste but the onion powder is essential to the sour cream and onion flavor (obviously).
• Parsley: A little herby sprinkle of fresh chopped parsley just makes this potato salad even better!

Ingredient Substitutions & Add-Ins

• Whole Onion: Instead of onion flakes, you can boil the potatoes with a quartered Vidalia or sweet onion. Just remove the onion when you drain the potatoes.
• Red Onion or Shallots: You can swap the green onion and chives for thinly sliced red onion or shallots if you prefer the flavor. I would still suggest using some chopped chives as a garnish though.
• Dill: Instead of parsley, try some freshly minced dill (dried dill works too)!
• Extra Creamy: If you want an extra creamy potato salad, add a few extra tablespoons of vegan mayo until you achieve your desired creaminess level.
• Cheesiness: For a hint of vegan cheesiness, add a tablespoon of nutritional yeast to the sour cream dressing mixture.
• Add Crunch: While this defeats the purpose of making this healthy, add some crushed vegan sour cream and onion potato chips to the finished potato salad!
• Smokiness: For a smoky, backyard BBQ bite, add some homemade vegan coconut bacon!

How To Make Sour Cream and Onion Potato Salad

1. Cube your potatoes into 1-inch pieces before adding them to a potato of salted boiling water along with the onion flakes and boiling for about 15 minutes or until the potatoes are fork tender.
2. Meanwhile, mix together the vegan sour cream dressing in a small bowl combining the vegan sour cream, vegan mayo, white vinegar, dijon, onion powder, garlic powder, salt, and pepper.

3. Drain the potatoes, add them to a large bowl, and allow them to cool to room temperature before adding the dressing.
4. Once the potatoes are no longer piping hot, add the sour cream dressing, green onion, and chopped parsley to the bowl.

5. Mix together the potato salad until all the potatoes are coated in the sour cream and onion dressing.
6. Chill the potato salad until ready to serve and garnish with extra chopped chives, if desired.

Recipe Tips & Tricks

• Make sure to taste-test the dressing to see if you need more onion powder or garlic powder. It's easiest to add more to the dressing before it's mixed into the potatoes.
• Allow the boiled potatoes to cool before adding the creamy dressing so no separation occurs. Making sure the dressing is at room temperature also helps.
• The longer you allow the potato salad to chill in the fridge, the stronger the flavors will be since they have time to meld together and develop.
• Make sure to toss the potato salad after it's been chilled so the dressing can get redistributed. Add a few dollops of extra sour cream or mayo if the potatoes have soaked up too much of the dressing and the potato salad is too thick.

What To Serve With Sour Cream and Onion Potato Salad

Swap the potato chips in your lunch for some potato salad! It goes perfectly with a vegan BLT, green goddess wrap, or Southern tomato sandwich! Of course, any potato salad is an ideal side dish for potlucks, cookouts, BBQs, holidays, gatherings, etc. Serve it with your favorite grilled entrees like these vegan portobello steaks, cabbage steaks, BBQ eggplant, or non-vegan entrees like this grilled chicken, garlic grilled chicken, or chicken burgers!

Storage Instructions

This vegan potato salad is perfect to make ahead of time since it's best served chilled in the fridge for at least a few hours. If you plan on adding ingredients like vegan bacon or potato chips, make sure to mix them in just before serving so they don't get soggy. You can store leftovers in a closed container in the fridge for about 5 days. Do not freeze. I like to have the potato salad sit a room temperature for a few minutes before serving to get the optimal flavor.

More Vegan Potato Salad Recipes:

• Classic American Potato Salad
• Southern Potato Salad
• Harissa Potato Salad
• Authentic Vegan German Potato Salad
• Tahini Celeriac Potato Salad
• Sweet Potato Potato Salad

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Potatoes are one of the healthiest foods out there, you just have to eat them in the right ways, so ditch the potato chips and enjoy this healthy whole-food potato salad!

So tell me:

+ What's your favorite potato chip flavor? Salt and vinegar, BBQ, sour cream and cheddar...

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