Macaroni Salad Recipes

Macaroni salads are extremely delicious to taste and like any other salad, there are variations of these as well. These are also easy to make which would allow you to add your own personal taste to it as well. Macaroni salads are often made with cooked elbow macaroni pasta and are generally served cold. These offer a great change in the regular menu and can be altered to suit your taste buds as well. Need some variations for your regular macaroni salad recipes? Here are some ways.

Macaroni Salad Recipes:

Classic Macaroni Salad Recipe-
Ingredients:

• Uncooked elbow macaroni (4 cups)
• Mayonnaise (1 cup)
• White sugar (2/3 cup)
• Salt (1 1/2 teaspoons)
• Ground black pepper (1/2 teaspoon)
• Large onion-chopped (1)
• Celery-chopped (2 stalks)
• Green bell pepper-seeded and chopped (1)
• Prepared yellow mustard (2 1/2 tablespoons)
• Distilled white vinegar (1/4 cup)
• Grated carrot-optional (1/4 cup)
• Chopped pimento peppers-optional (2 tablespoons)

Preparation:
Boil some lightly salted water in a large pot and add the macaroni. Cook till it turns tender for about 8 minutes and rinse under cold water and drain. Now, you need to mix the vinegar, sugar, mustard, mayonnaise, salt and pepper in a large bowl. Stir the green pepper, carrot, pimentos, macaroni, onion and celery into this. Your cold macaroni salad will be ready to be devoured only after four hours of refrigeration!

Basic Macaroni Salad Recipe-
Ingredients:

• Coarse salt
• Elbow macaroni (1 pound)
• Frozen petite peas (1 1/4 cups)
• Mayonnaise (1 cup)
• Sour cream (1/2 cup)
• White wine vinegar (1 teaspoon)
• Sugar (3/4 teaspoon)
• Ground nutmeg (1/4 teaspoon)
• Celery stalks-thinly sliced, crosswise (2)
• Freshly ground pepper
• Ham-dry-cured ham, cut into 1/4-inch dice (6 ounces)
• Scallions-use the white and pale-green parts plus the 1 inch of dark-green part that should be thinly sliced, diagonally (3)

Preparation:
Boil water in a large pot and add some salt to it. Add the macaroni as well and cook till its tender. Rinse this with cold water and drain. Rinse this at least twice. Next, transfer this to a large bowl and cover it with a plastic wrap and place this in a refrigerator.

Meanwhile, thaw the peas under cold running water and drain. Toss it with the ham, celery and scallions in a bowl. Now, add this to the macaroni and toss.

Whisk the sugar, nutmeg, mayonnaise, sour cream, vinegar and 1/4 teaspoon salt together and add it into the macaroni mixture. You need to season this mixture with some salt and pepper. Refrigerate the salad in an airtight container for at least three hours to be able to savor the taste of cold macaroni salad!

Hawaiian Macaroni Salad Recipe-
Ingredients:

• Macaroni (1/2 lb.)
• Sparse sugar (1/2 c.)
• Flour (1 1/2 tsp.)
• Salt (1/4 tsp)
• Chunk pineapple (1 can)
• Oranges (1 sm. can)
• Egg-lightly beaten (1)
• Cherries- cut up (12 to 15)

Preparation:
Drain the oranges and the pineapples and save the juice. Cook the macaroni and rinse it altogether. Now, mix the sugar, egg, salt, flour and the juices together and cook it till it thickens. Mix this with the macaroni and refrigerate it overnight. Add the fruits to it the next morning and serve chilled!