Easiest Way to Cook Tasty Macaroni Salad

Macaroni Salad. Great macaroni salad and definitely classic picnic food! Everyone has their own take on these types of things and I adjusted this to my own taste preferences as well. Cook macaroni according to package directions; drain and rinse with cold water.

The dressing is a good basic macaroni salad dressing that you can use with your own macaroni salad recipe. Made with cooked macaroni pasta, red bell peppers (or capsicum), shredded carrot, red onions, dill pickles, crisp celery and chives tossed in the ULTIMATE dressing made with mayonnaise, sour cream, vinegar, Dijon mustard, minced garlic, salt, pepper and a pinch of sugar to balance out the acidity. Stir in macaroni, celery, green pepper and onion. You can have Macaroni Salad using 13 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Macaroni Salad

1. It's 4 cups of uncooked macaroni.
2. You need 6 stalks of celery.
3. It's 1 of onion.
4. You need 14 oz of frozen peas.
5. You need 1 of green bell pepper.
6. Prepare 6 of boiled eggs.
7. Prepare 5 handfuls of matchstick carrots.
8. Prepare of dressing.
9. Prepare 1 cup of mayonnaise.
10. You need 2 tablespoons of yellow mustard.
11. You need 1 1/2 tsp of salt.
12. Prepare 1/2 tablespoon of apple cider vinegar.
13. Prepare 1/2 tsp of ground black pepper Plus to taste.

Serve chilled or at room temperature. Macaroni Pasta Salad is an old Southern classic recipe. Great for home, picnics, potluck dinners, any old place. Can be prepared a day or two ahead of time if needed and travels well.

Macaroni Salad step by step

1. Boil water then add pasta and cook until tender, about 10 minutes.
2. Rinse pasta with cold water.
3. Put in a large bowl or if you have kid helpers a big stockpot for easier stirring.
4. Dice your celery, onions and add to macaroni.
5. Deseed bell pepper and dice then add to macaroni.
6. Dice boiled eggs, add to macaroni.
7. Add peas still frozen to macaroni.
8. Stir gently.
9. Add carrots, i did just enough to color accent.
10. Gently stir.
11. In a small bowl, add dressing ingredients and mix well.
12. Fold into macaroni mixture.
13. Chill 4 hours and serve.

I was hesitant about posting this recipe - it's the macaroni salad I grew up with, and pretty basic. The best + easiest old-fashioned macaroni salad to bring to all the BBQs/potlucks! Everyone will be dying for the recipe! We all need a good classic macaroni salad in our back pocket. One that we can always bring to backyard BBQs and potlucks.