White Vegetable Potato Salad

Yield: 1 salad
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 15 plus over night in the fridge minutes
Serving: Family

By Bonita's Kitchen August 9, 2026

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How to make a tasty old fashioned white vegetable potato salad with a few simple ingredients and a little twist.

Make yourself a cup of tea.

Sit back and enjoy our short video tutorial to make yours today!!

Making the sauce to put into the White Vegetable Potato Salad is half the battle.

Having that creamy, tarty and sweet taste just like your nan would make years ago....

Mayo, sugar, onion powder, evaporated milk, butter, juice from the mixed veggies and seasonings.

Just fold in the mixed veggies to the potato mixture.

Boil two or three eggs and after peel and cut them in slices.

Put on top of the salad for garnish.

I hope you get to make this tasty homemade White Vegetable Potato Salad soon!

Please leave us a message letting us know what you or your mom did different....

Enjoy and thank you for stopping by...:)

From our kitchen to yours and myself, RMHussey Productions and Team!!

Ingredients

Mixed Vegetables - 1 - 398ml can, peas and carrots
White Potatoes - 6 medium
Mayo or miracle whip - ½ cup
White vinegar - 1 tbsp
White Sugar - 1 tsp
Cream or Evaporated Milk - 2 tbsp
Sea salt - 1 tsp
Onion Powder - ½ tsp
White pepper - ½ tsp or less
Butter - 2 tbsp
Onion - 1 small, quartered
Liquid - 2 tbsp, from mixed vegetables
Paprika - 1 tsp, or less for garnish
Eggs - 2 boiled sliced

Instructions

Method:

Peel and rise or soak the potatoes to clean them plus soaking them removes extra starch.

In a saucepan of water with one peeled onion cut in quarters, add sea salt and turn stovetop on medium heat. Boil the potatoes until fork tender. Remove from heat drain water or keep for a soup.

Mash the potatoes with butter and white vinegar, while warm. Let come to room temp before adding the other ingredients.

In a small bowl add, mayo or miracle whip, evaporated milk, onion powder, white pepper, and white sugar.

Mix together until all combined, then add it to the room temp mashed potatoes.

Scoop whipped mixture over mashed potatoes and fold together until all blended.

Open can of mixed veggies, drain liquid off leaving about 2 tbsp and add to mashed potatoes. Fold together.

Then add full can or as much as you like. Continue folded together and after all added and combined, smooth top to flatten.

Cut hard boiled eggs in slices and put on top of salad then sprinkle paprika to garnish.

Bonita’s Tips:

Letting the mashed potatoes go to room temp before adding mayo mixture, when complete keep in the fridge for a week until eaten.

Making the potato salad the day before serving it is best to have a nicer salad.

Evaporated milk is what our elders would use years ago but you can use a cream.

Use extra mayo or miracle whip if you wish.

Allergens

Egg, Milk

How to make a tasty old fashioned white vegetable potato salad with a few simple ingredients and a little twist.

Make yourself a cup of tea and sit back and enjoy our short video tutorial to make yours today!!

Peel, rinse and boil your white potatoes until fork tender.

Adding in the water sea salt and one onion to build that amazing taste.

Do you remember years ago when your parents made a white salad for Sunday’s Cold Plates

Did they use a can of vegetable salad?

This product is no longer available to buy, I’m thinking in 1980″s the company stopped making it.

But todays recipe is a throw back to this canned vegetable salad by using ingredients I think was in this can and recreating the same amazing taste that we remembered as kids.