This dairy-free, vegan sweet potato salad uses vegan mayo and is loaded with veggies and add-ins for a BBQ, potluck, and picnic side dish that’s creamy, sweet, savory, crunchy, and ready to impress!
With just a couple of ingredient swaps, it’s amazingly simple to prepare a creamy, moreish vegan potato salad. We’ve already shared recipes for a French potato salad and artichoke lemon potato salad. Now it’s the turn of this pantry-friendly vegan sweet potato salad.
This creamy dairy-free potato salad is fully loaded with veggies and add-ins to pack in tons of texture and flavor for a side dish worthy of any special event or family dinner. With a combination of sweet potatoes and red or purple potatoes, this vegan potato salad with sweet potatoes is subtly sweet and incredibly moreish.
Better yet, this recipe is also very customizable. On top of the base recipe, we’ve added dill pickles, red onion, capers, pimento peppers, and olives for a delicious combination of flavor and texture. However, feel free to omit what you don’t have or sub it/them with one of our many recommendations below.
You can prepare this sweet potato salad recipe in under 20 minutes and simply leave it to ‘marinate’ for several hours before serving! Of course, you can save the leftovers for several days, too!
Looking for more simple vegetable side salads? You might also like this vegan cucumber salad, vegan calabacitas, vegan coleslaw, or easy cucumber salsa!
At its most basic, we can make this vegan potato salad with sweet potato with just potatoes, green onion, and the dressing. However, with our combination of ingredients, get ready to try a potato salad you’ll want to prepare time and time again!
This sweet potato vegan potato salad is highly customizable. Along with the above ingredients and their substitute, you could use/add:
There are just five steps to making this sweet potato salad, all of which are super simple. You’ll have it ready in no time!
The exact time will vary based on the size of your potato pieces and pan.
We didn’t, for the extra fiber. However, if you’d prefer to, then that’s fine. You could even save the peelings to toss with oil and salt and bake into crispy chips.
You can if you’d like, but we find it unnecessary since this dairy-free potato salad tastes amazing after resting, without the added salt.
Aside from the vega mayo (and even that in moderation is fine!), we loaded this sweet potato salad recipe with good-for-you ingredients. Top of the list is the sweet potatoes, which are loaded with antioxidants, fiber, and various micronutrients (vitamins and minerals – including vitamin C and vitamin A).
As long as it’s eaten in moderation, there’s no reason this sweet potato salad with plant-based mayo can’t be considered relatively healthy.
Technically yes - the base potato salad recipe (potatoes and dressing) could be frozen. However, the texture changes upon thawing, so we don’t recommend it.
Absolutely; that’s fine if you’d prefer to adapt this to a regular vegan potato salad. We recommend using waxy potatoes like Yukon Gold potatoes, red potatoes, or new potatoes.
As this sweet potato salad requires ‘marinating’ time, we highly recommend preparing it a day in advance and storing it in the fridge until you’re ready to serve.
You could also prep some individual aspects in advance. I.e., cook the potatoes, chop the veggies, mix the dressing, and wait to assemble them until desired.
Store any leftovers in an airtight container in the refrigerator for 4-5 days.
This dairy-free potato salad with sweet potato is the perfect vegan BBQ side dish and addition to any potluck. However, you can enjoy it all year with:
Let us know how you best enjoy this sweet potato salad in the comments below.
Or browse through our entire list of budget-friendly vegan salad recipes!
Photos by Alfonso Revilla
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Grace Tejero says
Can't wait to try your recipe! It's crave-worthy 🙂
Andrea White says
Let us know what you think 🙂
Alexandra says
So delicious, and the perfect salad for entertaining!
Kate says
I really enjoyed that you added yams to this potato salad. Lots of healthy protein and fibre! Would recommend
Nora says
What an amazing idea using sweet potatoes! Love it!
Kayla DiMaggio says
This sweet potato salad was so refreshing! Perfect for a BBQ!
Natalie says
I was so proud of this dish! My guests were impressed, thanks!
Michelle says
This was so good over memorial day!
Andrea White says
Definitely a new favorite in our household! So delicious!
Cindy Mom the Lunch Lady says
I'm always looking for new salads to make for.the cottage during the summer. This one looks and sounds fantastic!
Andrea White says
This one is definitely a winner! Let us know what you think if you try it 🙂
Bianca says
This sweet potato salad was amazing! Had it as a side with our BBQ today
Andrea White says
Love to hear that! I'm so excited to try it out!
Nancy says
Perfect summer meal prep. Yummy
Jess says
I love anything with sweet potato!
Katie says
Obsessed with this sweet potato salad! Lovely flavor and easy to make!
Shelby says
Such an great side dish an a great way to use up seasonal sweet potatoes!
Andrea White says
I'm a sucker for sweet potatoes so I'm excited to try this side dish too!
Katie says
I'm obsessed with this sweet potato salad recipe! Will be making it again soon!
Andrea White says
It's so easy to make and delicious! Gotta love it!
nancy says
wow loved how you used sweet potatos!! pinned
Andrea White says
Unique and delicious!
Linda S says
What a perfect potato salad! I loved the purple potatoes with the sweet. My mom used to make potato salad with purple potatoes so this reminded me of that.
Andrea White says
Love that! So glad you enjoyed this potato salad!
Audrey says
I never thought to make potato salad with sweet potatoes before. It is such a fun twist.
Jess says
I love this sweet potato recipe!
Jeannie says
so delicious and filling!
Andrea White says
One of my favorites!