Potato salad with herbs and miso dressing. Everyone’s got a favorite potato salad, and this is mine. Delightful fresh flavor of new potatoes and crunchy vegetables with a mayo dressing mixed with tangy yogurt, garlic and savory miso.
I’m a huge potato lover, there are worse things, right?! They’re just about my favorite thing to eat. I grew up with them and probably was served them different ways four or five times a week along with garden vegetables and either pork or chicken. And tiny new potatoes with butter, sour cream, chives and an egg on the side was a favorite!
Potatoes are pretty magical in all their forms, like crisp-skinned baked potatoes, creamy mashed potatoes, or the little new ones, boiled and tossed with green herbs, good butter and flaky salt… You can bake them, boil, make wedges, chips, salads, fritters and fries. Is there anything more versatile than a potato?
This potato salad is loaded with crunchy vegetables, like radishes and cucumbers, and tossed with a creamy miso garlic dressing. It feels like a complete meal you might eat for dinner in warmer weather, and not only as a bbq side or a picnic salad. Summer wouldn’t be complete without this cold and creamy potato salad that can be thrown together really quick. By adding crunchy veggies, miso, fresh herbs, toasted pumpkin seeds and thinly sliced red onion you can spruce up your salad. Super small additions that go a long way. Imagine a world full of crunch, texture, tang, complexity and flavor.
I’m always looking for ways to use a spoon of miso, after all, I can’t eat miso soup every day (basically, I probably could). So I like to sneak it into dressings for some extra umami. Any miso paste will work in this recipe, although I usually use white miso. It gives this creamy dressing a savory taste that complements the potatoes and herbs.
How to store potato salad
Cover the salad bowl with plastic wrap or store in an airtight container. Refrigerate for up to 4 days. Do not freeze.
Try These Next
- Za’atar roasted potato and asparagus salad
- Easy roasted potato and crunchy chickpea salad
- Perfect cucumber salad
Potato Salad with Miso Dressing
Ingredients
Salad
- 1.1 pounds baby potatoes
- 10 radishes trimmed and thinly sliced
- 1 cucumber cut in half lengthwise and cut into slices (not too thin to keep them crunchy)
- 1 red onion thinly sliced
- 4 tbsp toasted pumpkin seeds
- 3 tbsp chopped dill
- 3 tbsp chopped parsley
- 3 tbsp chopped basil leaves
- salt
- black pepper
Miso Dressing
- 3 tbsp mayonnaise
- 2 tbsp yogurt
- 2 garlic cloves minced
- 1 tsp mustard
- 2 tsp white miso paste
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- salt
- black pepper
Instructions
- Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Scrub and clean the potatoes, leaving skin on. Add potatoes to the boiling water and cook until ready for about 15 minutes. Drain and run under cold water. Cut into small pieces.
- Combine potatoes with radishes, cucumber, parsley, dill, basil, red onion and pumpkin seeds in a large bowl.
- In a small bowl whisk all dressing ingredients until smooth. Pour the dressing over the salad and gently stir until completely coated. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Garnish with extra dill and parsley. Serve cold or at room temperature. Enjoy!
Nutrition
And …IF YOU LOVE THESE RECIPES … please consider supporting my work for just the cost of a cup of coffee.
Sign up for my NEWSLETTER to receive the latest recipes delivered straight to your inbox.
A fresh and delicious side-dish to serve with a BBQ on a sunny day. I made the salad with grilled chicken and will definitely be making it again soon!
Thank you Barbara! So glad this recipe is a hit!