About
Anytime cheese and potatoes come together, it's a beautiful thing! Velveeta® Hot Potato Salad takes on a classic with a new twist! Tender potatoes and everyone's secret obsession, grated Velveeta cheese, are added to a creamy mayo mixture, along with some sassy yellow onion and the always-unique, pimiento-stuffed Spanish olives. Yum! All that converges together and is topped with crispy, savory bacon for a flavor fantasia like you can't even imagine! Velveeta Hot Potato Salad has all the tastes you love, all warmed up in one deliciously cheesy, out-of-this-world kind of dish. It's a Southern favorite for a reason, y'all!
Ingredients
- 1 pound Velveeta cheese
- 8 baking potatoes
- water, to taste
- 1 1/2 cups mayonnaise
- 1 cup half-and-half
- 1/2 cup yellow onion, chopped
- 1 cup pimiento-stuffed Spanish olives, sliced
- salt, to taste
- black pepper, to taste
- 6 slices bacon, cut into 2-inch-long pieces
Directions
Step 1 -Place the Velveeta cheese, still in the package, in the freezer and chill, about 45 minutes-1 hour.
Step 2 -While the cheese is freezing, in a large pot, add the potatoes and enough of the water to cover them and cook until they are tender, about 25-30 minutes.
Step 3 -Drain the water and let the potatoes cool completely.
Step 4 -Peel the potatoes and cut them into 1-inch-thick cubes. Set them aside.
Step 5 -Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F.
Step 6 -Coat a 9x13-inch baking dish with nonstick cooking spray.
Step 7 -Transfer the frozen Velveeta cheese from the freezer and remove it from the packaging.
Step 8 -Use the large holes on a box grater to grate the frozen cheese.
Step 9 -In a large bowl, add the mayonnaise and the half-and-half and whisk to combine.
Step 10 -Add the potato cubes, the grated cheese, the onion, the olives, the salt, and the black pepper to the mayonnaise mixture and stir to combine.
Step 11 -Spoon the potato mixture into the prepared baking dish and top with the bacon pieces.
Step 12 -Bake the potato salad, about 55 minutes.
Step 13 -Switch the oven to the broil setting and broil the potato salad until the bacon pieces are crisp, about 5 minutes.
Step 14 -Transfer the baking dish to a wire rack and let the potato salad stand, about 5 minutes.
Step 15 -Serve.
