Sweet Potato Salad Recipe with Bacon

In place of the goopy mayo and bland, over-cooked white potatoes that plague many classic potato salad recipes, this vibrant sweet potato salad recipe has a zippy jalapeno mustard dressing, crispy bacon, and golden sweet potato hunks. Lovers of German potato salad with its grainy mustard dressing (as well as all lovers of bacon and all lovers of sweet potatoes) will be especially enamored.

Where old-fashioned potato salad blends into the backdrop, sweet potato salad stands out. If your summer potluck were a high school dance, old-fashioned white potato salad would be hiding against the wall, while this Sweet Potato Salad with Bacon would be in the middle of the dance floor, busting its best moves.

Perhaps potato salad is more provocative than I thought.

The “stranger” with whom I bonded over this Sweet Potato Salad is Heather, someone who I’ve never met in person, but who I feel as if I know through her beautiful blog and now her cookbook . Like me, Heather prefers her potato salad on the mustardy/vinegary side, no mayo please. Also, in the process of reading her book, I developed a total girl crush on her. It’s easy to do!

I stay up too late reading cookbooks the way I imagine that other people stay up reading suspense novels—hungrily pouring over every page, devouring the words with the kind of non-stop voracity I typically reserve for a bowl of Sweet and Spicy Chex Mix. As I paged through Pure Delicious, I found myself drawn into Heather and her family’s story, as well as craving every single recipe in her book. Food allergies forced Heather, a chef who prided herself on eating everything, to make a dramatic change in her family’s diet. They bid goodbye to all things gluten, dairy, eggs, nuts, refined sugar, and more. Heather refused to let these restrictions leave her

family feeling deprived of fantastic food, as you’ll see if you check out her blog or book.

When I paged through Pure Delicious, what grabbed my attention wasn’t the absence of these common foods; it was the bounty of ingredients and flavors, like the ones you’ll find in this Sweet Potato Salad with Bacon.

I’m honored Heather let me share her Sweet Potato Salad recipe with all of you, and she is offering one reader a copy of her cookbook too!

**Giveaway ended. Thanks to all those who entered and congrats to the winner!**

Tools I used to make this recipe:

• for the most perfectly cooked bacon

If you like this Sweet Potato Salad recipe, don’t miss these other fantastic side dishes!

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Muffin Tin Homemade Tater Tots (with bacon!)

Giveaway open to US residents age 18 and older. Deadline to enter is June 1 at 10 pm CST. One (1) winner will be selected. Thanks Heather for providing me and one lucky giveaway winner with a copy of your beautiful book!

Original article and pictures take http://www.wellplated.com/sweet-potato-salad-recipe/ site