Crispy smashed potatoes and a creamy tzatziki dressing are a winning combination in this playful potato salad.
Smashed Potato Salad with Tzatziki photographed for Food in Washington, DC on July 8, 2024. 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 creamy potato salads, but in general I tend to crave a crispier, crunchier spud. Enter the smashed potato salad.
I hopped on the bandwagon and initially tried the Hungry Happens recipe and one from Allrecipes, which amassed 4.5 million views on TikTok. Theis a bit more pared down, with a dressing of sour cream, mayonnaise, Dijon mustard, lemon juice, dill, parsley and green onions. Since it’s similar to my usual potato salad, I anticipated preferring this version, but I found that the crispy texture of the potatoes needed a punchy dressing to stand up to it.
Red onions replace shallots to keep with the Mediterranean theme, and a single clove of garlic has a small but mighty presence. Lemon and red wine vinegar add brightness, and while a number of herbs, such as parsley or mint, could work, I like my tzatziki to be dill-forward. 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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