Dressing:
Add cooked macaroni to a large mixing bowl along with all the other salad ingredients. Mix well.
Make dressing and pour over salad ingredients and stir until everything is blended together. Cover and refrigerate until ready to serve.
Best if made the day before and refrigerated overnight to allow the flavors to "marry".
Source: I wanted something very different so that there would be a noticeable contrast to my All American Potato Salad when served at the same time. It is certainly that.
By Julia from Boca Raton, FL
I am searching for recipe to put on Dreamfield pasta to make a macaroni salad. I used to like my mom's, followed her recipe and found it bland. I want to make it with a bit more zing and nothing I've added seems to perk it up. Thanks so much in advance.
By Joan from Norwell, MA
My mom always added some horseradish when she wanted to put a little zip in the mac salad or cole slaw.
Macaroni Shrimp Salad
4 cups cooked macaroni
1 bunch green onions chopped
1 red bell pepper diced
3 stalks celery diced
1 small jar marinated artichokes with juice, chopped bite size
Mix all together and chill. This is good served on a bed of lettuce with hard boiled egg slices, cucumber slices, tomato slices, etc. and serve with a slice of garlic bread. A good dinner for summer.
This is a recipe that I invented. I had a shrimp salad in a restaurant that was very bland. I told my husband that I could make a better one and this is the result.
Does anyone make a macaroni salad with shrimp in it? Could the recipe be shared with me?
By LaurieS
Here's a really yummy old fashioned macaroni salad recipe. Just add the amount of cooked baby cocktail shrimp you would like. Personally I would use about 3/4 cup cocktail size shrimp for this amount of pasta or 1/2 cup chopped larger shrimp.
4 hard boiled eggs, chopped
1 lb. elbow macaroni
2 large ribs celery, including leaves, chopped
1/4 red onion, chopped
2 Tbsp. fresh lemon juice
2/3 cup mayonnaise, or more to taste
2 Tbsp. Dijon mustard
1 (4 oz) jar pimentos, drained and chopped
Salt and pepper to taste
Cook pasta al dente according to package directions, drain, and rinse with cold water and drain again.
Combine the eggs, celery, red onion and lemon juice in a large serving bowl, add macaroni and stir to combine.
Whisk the mayonnaise, mustard and pimentos in a small bowl, season with salt and pepper, add to the macaroni mixture and toss to coat, cover and refrigerate for at least two hours to let the flavors meld.
I'm looking for a macaroni salad recipe my grandma made. She's gone now and it isn't in the family cookbook. It had twist noodles, chunks of ham and I think Velveeta cheese. I have no clue about the sauce. Does anyone have something close to this?
This might not be like Grandma's but close:
~~~Good Luck~~~
Give it a Try...
INGREDIENTS:
1 (16 ounce) package macaroni
2 red bell peppers, chopped
DIRECTIONS:
1. Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Add pasta and cook for 8 to 10 minutes, or until al dente. Drain, and rinse with cold water until no longer hot. Transfer noodles to a large bowl.
2. Stir in red bell peppers, green bell peppers, green onions, celery and olive oil. Mix in mayonnaise and soup mix. Refrigerate for a few hours before serving.
Not knowing what the salad tasted like, chances are your grandma probably used just mayonnaise for the dressing on her macaroni salad. She may have added sweet relish or a little sugar or lemon juice with salt and pepper. I would try mixing up some of that and put over twisty noodles with ham and cheese chunks.
The spiral noodles are called fusilli, sometimes called scroodles. Maybe if you do a search, you might be able to find the recipe on the web.
I have bought a vinegar salad with noodles at Walmart. I understand it is Amish. Does anyone have the recipe?
By J>W> from Norlina
Is this the one? www.recipezaar.com/
In a bowl, combine the macaroni, tomato, cucumber, red pepper, basil, and parsley.
This is a recipe that was given to my mother by our next door neighbor. My husband, Justin, could eat this everyday if I made it.
Cook macaroni according to package directions; drain and rinse in cold water. In a large bowl, combine the macaroni, green onions, tomato and celery.
An inexpensive pasta salad can be made with tuna and a variety of other ingredients. This page contains tuna macaroni salad recipes.
I was raised on this macaroni salad recipe. It was very common for our family to have this at the holiday season meals.
This macaroni salad has one of the best dressings I have ever had in a macaroni salad. Very sweet and good!