This viral TikTok-inspired potato salad combines crispy smashed spuds with a tangy tzatziki dressing to create an unforgettable side dish.
Smashed Potato Salad With Tzatziki Dressing. One of my favorite food-related debates is which form of potato is superior to the rest. There are so many to choose from — mashed, roasted, fries, chips — and my answer often changes. In the summer, I gravitate toward cool and creamyI first saw the delightful mashup of golden brown smashed potatoes and potato salad dressing on my TikTok feed a couple of months ago and immediately bookmarked it.
While I thought it was delicious from the start, I decided to tinker with the original Hungry Happens recipe, pulling from my recipe tests as well as my own potato salad preferences. I strayed from my usual sour cream and opted for whole-milk Greek yogurt, which provides a tangy flavor with a touch of richness, and combined it with mayonnaise to create a creamy base.Red onions replace shallots to keep with the Mediterranean theme, and a single clove of garlic has a small but mighty presence.
I was unsure how the cucumbers would fare in the salad, concerned that they might make the dish too watery, but when seeded and chopped into small pieces, they provide a cooling crunch that both balances and heightens the flavor and texture of the potatoes. The pickles are not a traditional tzatziki ingredient, but in my book, all good potato salads include them.
The key to this salad, though, is the smashed potatoes. Boiling baby potatoes until they’re tender and easily pierced with a fork allows them to be smashed evenly and kept mostly intact. I also noticed smaller spuds were easier to smash. Some of the recipes involve smashing the potatoes so thin that they almost transform into chips, but I still wanted a hint of a fluffy interior and found that keeping them around 1/4- to 1/2-inch thick seemed to do the trick.
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