🇨🇿 Czech Cuisine

Bramborovy Salat

Czech Potato Salad

Prep Time 1 hour

Servings 8

Difficulty Easy

Calories 279 kcal

A creamy yet tangy potato salad with diced vegetables, pickles, eggs, and a mustard-mayo dressing — the essential Christmas Eve side.

Ingredients

1kg waxy potatoes
3 hard-boiled eggs, diced
2 carrots, cooked and diced
200g pickled gherkins, diced
1 small onion, finely diced
150g mayonnaise
2 tbsp mustard
2 tbsp pickle brine
Salt, pepper

Instructions

1 Boil potatoes until just tender. Cool, peel, and dice.
2 Cook carrots until tender. Cool and dice.
3 Combine potatoes, carrots, eggs, gherkins, and onion.
4 Mix mayo, mustard, pickle brine, salt, and pepper into a dressing.
5 Fold dressing into the salad gently.
6 Refrigerate at least 2 hours. Taste and adjust seasoning before serving.

Did You Know?

Czech potato salad sparks more family debates than politics — every household has strong opinions about the correct ratio of pickles to mayonnaise.