This Cauliflower Potato Salad has all the flavors of our favorite loaded potato salad, but it’s made with cauliflower to keep things low carb. This summer side dish is perfect along with anything off the grill! No one will even miss the potatoes!
My grandma made the best potato salad. Pretty sure it was just the recipe off the Hellman’s jar, but she made it best. <3
These days, we don’t eat potato salad, but that doesn’t stop the craving and, believe it or not, cauliflower really does a good job on this one!
We’ve turned cauliflower into plenty of things (like cauliflower mac and cheese!), and while it’s never the SAME, in this case it really is close. The flavor in our cauliflower potato salad is pretty spot on, but the texture is of course different.
When it comes to cook outs, we need cold salads to serve up. My mom makes this fabulous keto coleslaw and we’re basically obsessed with my keto broccoli salad, but a good old keto potato salad is also necessary!
♥ What We Love About This Recipe:
Family-Friendly: While this keto potato salad isn’t made with actual potatoes, it tastes similar enough that everyone (even the carb lovers) will enjoy it! It’s a universal hit!
Easy: Stir together the dressing while the cauliflower steams and then just stir everything together. Easy peasy!
Bacon: This cauliflower potato salad has bacon (and cheddar!) which makes it an instant hit with just about everyone we know!
Serve this cauliflower potato salad up next to our ranch grilled chicken, keto ribs, or air fryer steak kabobs.
For dessert, we recommend our keto blackberry cobbler or keto-apple-crisp!
Ingredient Notes:
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Cauliflower – Lightly steam the cauliflower until it’s the texture you’d prefer. We like it to be tender, but with a bit of bite to it.
Dressing – Mayo, mustard, dill, salt, and pepper make the creamy base for this salad.
Mix Ins – Crisp bacon, shredded cheddar, diced onion, and chopped boiled egg add texture and flavor to this cauliflower potato salad.
“My husband and I tried this cauliflower recipe tonight. It was so yummy. My husband looked at me and said” Is this potato salad?” I smiled and said “No, It is cauliflower salad made like potato salad”. We both loved it. Thanks for the recipe.” – Reg
How To:
- Steam the Cauliflower – This low carb cauliflower recipe starts with a head of cauliflower. Chop it into bite-sized chunks and steam until they are as tender as you’d like. I like them with a little bit of a crunch! When the cauliflower is finished steaming place it in a bowl in the refrigerator to cool for a couple of hours before moving on.
- Mix – When the cauliflower has cooled off you can add it to a mixing bowl to get tossed with some good stuff! Add in all of the remaining ingredients including your mayonnaise, mustard, boiled eggs, and some crispy bacon and grated cheddar. Once you’ve got all those in the mixing bowl go ahead and toss them together until they are well mixed.
- Serve – When you’ve finished mixing the salad together that’s about all there is to it! Serve it up or pop it back in the fridge until ready.
Recipe FAQs:
Any brand of mayonnaise that you like will work well here. Hellman’s, Dukes, and Kraft are our favorites, but use what you like. Be sure not to use Miracle Whip.
You can use raw cauliflower in this cauliflower potato salad, but the texture won’t be nearly as similar to traditional potato salad. We like to steam the cauliflower and then cool it so that the texture is more soft and tender.
This cauliflower potato salad should keep well in the fridge for about three days. Cauliflower tends to have an odor, so while it may not smell the best, it should still taste great.
MORE CAULIFLOWER RECIPES!
Cheddar Bacon Cauliflower Potato Salad
Ingredients
- 1 large head cauliflower
- ½ cup shredded cheddar
- ⅓ cup mayonnaise
- 1/4 cup chopped red onion
- 6 slices fried bacon diced
- 2 large hard boiled eggs peeled and diced
- 1 tablespoon dill
- 1 teaspoon mustard
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
Instructions
- Chop the cauliflower into bite-sized pieces and place in a steamer basket.
- Steam for 3-5 minutes or until tender-crisp.
- Add the cauliflower to a large mixing bowl and place in the fridge to chill for 2 hours.
- Add the remaining ingredients to the bowl of cauliflower and stir well to combine.
- Serve immediately.
Debbie says
This tastes incredibly like real potato salad! I didn’t add the dill yet. Def best the first day but in can chill for a couple of hours or so ahead of time. I did eat some the 2nd day, it was still OK to eat. I wouldn’t have served it at a party on the 2nd day. Can’t wait to change it up with different variations. Maybe add some dill pickle. Also want to try it with homemade mayo too 🙂
Gayle says
Im wondering if you could add jicama for that potato taste as well. I know I use it in my stew
Karly Campbell says
I’m sure you could, if you think the flavors will work. 🙂
Pamela Cameron says
Can’t wait to try this. We eat Best Foods olive oil mayo. Thanks for all the great low carb ideas and recipes.
Mike Baldwin says
What do you think about raw califlower
Karly Campbell says
I think it would be very crunchy, but would probably taste fine.
John Messina says
Is the dill in this recipe fresh or dried? I have dried dill in my pantry and want to use that.
Karly Campbell says
Either will be fine. 🙂
Barbara Henderson says
It would definitely be Hellman’s for me. Then Duke’s.
j says
I made this and it was great the first day but the second day it was watery? I drained the cauliflower well and it was not this way the first day? What did I do wrong?
Thanks,
J
Karly Campbell says
Hmm, my guess is that it was just the vegetable releasing some of it’s liquid. I’d just drain off the liquid as best you can (serve with a slotted spoon, for example) or stir in a bit more mayo to thicken up the dressing again.
Sid Sipkema says
Instead of the dill you could add some chopped dill pickles. I always did that with potato salad. Add a little of the juice as well.
Karly Campbell says
Sure!
Dot P. says
My choice of mayo is Duke’s!! Love it in everything that calls for mayo. Been using it for over 50 years. When the grocer didn’t carry it we had cases shipped or made trips to Greenville, SC where it’s made and brought home cases. This recipe sounds yummy and so does your keto coleslaw and look forward to making today with my Duke’s mayo.
Magriet Cordier says
Any suggestions to substitute the dill please?? my family don’t like dill.
Karly Campbell says
You can just leave it out or add parsley instead.
Jill says
Perfect salad! Made my own mayo using a no fail recipe (inspired taste blog) and it really made this salad yummy. I like the cauliflower a little bit crunchy- blanching for no more than five minutes was a great idea!
brian L says
this sounds incredible. i miss potato salad – although i’ve discovered that what i really like (salad and elsewhere, like a big deli sandwich) is onions and mayo. 🙂 Best Foods/Hellmans, if you please. Going to make this tonite.
Susan Scott says
Sounds fabulous! Any suggestions for a mayo substitute? I have a friend who won’t eat it.
Karly Campbell says
No, I’m sorry, I only ever use mayo in cold salads like this. Not sure what a good sub would be.
Lorna says
Ranch dressing
Pamela says
I like a little crunch and color in my “potato” salad so I added some celery and some green or black olives ( depending on your preference). Tastes delicious.
Janet says
Looks great…is the mustard yellow mustard or spice mustard?
Karly Campbell says
I use yellow mustard.
Debie says
How much is the serving size approximately ? 1 cup, 2 cup ?
Karly Campbell says
I did not measure by volume – just divided it into 6 servings.
Tone says
I am making this today, and I will be using Dukes Mayo 🙂 The only mayo for my family. I will also use scallions instead of red onion to cut the carbs even more. Can’t wait to try it
Mary says
What a good substitute for potato salad.
Val says
Thank you for this amazing recipe! My family loved it…. didn’t even miss the potatoes. I added some green onions, a bit of chopped red pepper, and cut the cheese into chunks rather than grate it, and doubled the amount of eggs…. it turned out awesome! The recipe is a keeper, for sure.
Lea says
Kraft or Hellmann’s for this Michigander girl…was Going to make the cauliflower mashed but will try this one tomorrow souls delish
christina says
Is this like real potato salad in the way that it tastes better the 2nd day?
Karly Campbell says
It does give the flavors time to develop more and will taste a bit better the second day, but sometimes cauliflower starts to stink after it’s been cooked a bit. Soooo, I usually serve it the same day because I hate the smell of cauliflower. Ha! Sorry if that’s not very helpful!