Cold 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. Cold macaroni salad meets chicken salad. good recipe for leftovers.
Serve chilled or at room temperature.
The best + easiest old-fashioned macaroni salad to bring to all the BBQs/potlucks!
Everyone will be dying for the recipe!
You can cook Cold macaroni salad using 6 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Cold macaroni salad
- You need 16 oz of box of noodles.
- Prepare As needed of Diced up meat (ham, bologna).
- Prepare 1/2 of chopped up onion.
- It's As needed of Small block of cheese diced up.
- It's 1 bottle of salad dressing (Any kind of salad dressing you like).
- It's As needed of Dan of oil.
We all need a good classic macaroni salad in our back pocket. One that we can always bring to backyard BBQs and potlucks. But most importantly, we need it to be creamy. Fill a large pot with lightly salted water and bring to a rolling boil over high heat.
Cold macaroni salad step by step
- Boil the noodles with a dab of oil so they don’t stick.
- Chop onions, meat, cheese while noodles are cooking..
- Drain noodles and rinse in cold water until noodles are cool..
- Mix everything together and refrigerate..
Once the water is boiling, stir in the rotini, and return to a boil. For dressing, in a small bowl, combine the mayonnaise, pickle relish, sugar substitute, mustard, salt and pepper. In a large bowl, combine the macaroni, celery, carrot and onion. Add dressing and toss gently to coat. This pleasing pasta salad is like eating a BLT in a bowl.