Click around the site and you can get a feel for my food likes and dislikes. Mushrooms and tofu are limited while sweet potatoes and quinoa are featured nearly once a week. Smoked paprika is another flavor I use quite a bit. It's smoky, earthy, and sweet all at the same time. The potatoes soak up this flavor and the blue cheese is such a sharp contrast that it works well wit the smoky flavor. One note: make your blue cheese dressing. It's easy and so much better than the store-bought dressings.
PrintSmoked Paprika Potato Spinach Salad with Homemade Blue Cheese
An easy and beautiful winter salad that features Smoked paprika potatoes paired with spinach and an easy, homemade blue cheese dressing.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 30 minutes
- Total Time: 40 minutes
- Yield: 2 servings 1x
- Category: Salad
Ingredients
Potatoes
- 1 pound red potatoes
- ½ medium yellow onion
- 2 cloves garlic
- 3 tablespoons heavy cream
- 1 tablespoon smoked paprika
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon red pepper flakes (optional)
Salad
- 3 to 4 handfuls baby spinach
- ¼ cup homemade blue cheese dressing
Instructions
- Heat oven to 400˚ F.
- Cut potatoes into ½" cubes. Dice onions into similar sized chunks. Place the potatoes and onions in a roasting pan. Mince garlic and add to pan along with the heavy cream, paprika, salt, and pepper flakes. Using a spoon or your hands, toss everything together so that potatoes and onions are coated.
- Bake for 10 minutes, stir, and bake for another 15-20 minutes or until potatoes are tender. Remove and let cool. Make the blue cheese dressing according to directions. Assemble salad with slightly cooled potatoes, spinach, and the dressing.
Notes
Tips & Tricks: Let the potatoes cool before tossing with the salad to prevent the greens from wilting.
Stock up: get the pantry ingredients you will need: Smoked Paprika, Potatoes, Spinach
Nutrition: get the information.
Nutrition
- Calories: 410
- Sugar: 6.2
- Sodium: 831.4
- Fat: 24.8
- Carbohydrates: 43.7
- Protein: 6.2
- Cholesterol: 40.3
Smoked Paprika Potato
variations
The roasted smoked paprika potato is the focal point of this salad but the blue cheese dressing isn't far behind. There are a few swaps, however, that I've made and had the salad come out a success.
Sweet Potatoes: cube sweet potatoes and use in place of the red potatoes.
Olive Oil: Swap out the heavy creamy for a tablespoon of olive oil. I like the richness the heavy cream provides but the olive oil would provide a nice crispness to the potatoes.
Vegan: I really love the blue cheese with the smoked paprika potatoes but this herby hemp dressing would be nice as well. Also use the olive oil option above.
Explore Potatoes
With all the exciting produce on the market, it’s easy to overlook potatoes. I love roasted red potatoes in salads, with eggs in the morning, and as a simple side dish with dinner. A few of my other favorite potato dishes include:
Barley, Smoked Paprika Red Potatoes, and Hard Boiled Egg
Braised Potato Salad with White Beans
Chimichurri Potato Tacos with Pinto Beans
Maria says
Potaoes and blue cheese dressing are two of my favorite things on the planet!!! So the combination sounds super YUM! Your blue cheese dressing recipe looks pretty fabulous too:)
Valenbarcelona says
Hi Erin,
I have tried this recipe last week with the heavy cream and loved it!!!
The only thing I changed was the spinaches: I fried them in a pan and served them along with the potatoes as a side dish, and it was really good.
I will definitely make the spinach salad with cheesy dressing in summer.
Have a great day
★★★★★
aimee says
where is the blue cheese dressing recipe? don’t see it. thanks:)
Erin Alderson says
I don't have one but I usually use this: https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/268-blue-cheese-dressing