Homestyle Macaroni Salad
This quick and easy homestyle macaroni salad is the perfect side dish for your Spring picnics and Summer barbecues!
Nutrition Facts
Ingredients
Instructions
Cook the noodles per package directions and drain in a colander.
To make the dressing, whisk together above ingredients. Pour half the dressing over the salad and chill to allow flavors to meld. When you're ready to serve, pour the remainder of the dressing over the salad and dig in!
Stir in your chopped veggies and pour over approx half the dressing, mixing well.
Steal a taste and feel free to adjust seasoning as needed.
Extra garlic is common in this house as is lots of extra bell pepper and green onion - add whatever extra veggies/spices you'd like!
Want to see how it turns out?
We've hidden the final 3 steps to support the original creator. Get the full, complete instructions directly from their site!
Continue Reading at Peasandcrayons →Chef's Notes
macaroni measurements: a typical 16oz box of dry elbow macaroni will deliver around eight 1/2 cup servings once cooked. If you use half the box (8oz =1 + 3/4 cups of macaroni]) you'll wind up with 4 servings. This will help if you're trying to calculate how much you need for an intimate group. If you're feeding a crowd, by all means make the whole box and skip measuring entirely. Just make sure you whisk together some extra dressing and add extra veggies.
For the peppers, you can use all one color or grab bag of multi-colored sweet mini peppers and get your rainbow on! I did this for the batch pictured in the photos.
Nutrition Facts below are estimated using an online recipe nutrition calculator. Adjust as needed and enjoy!
Comments & Photos
Be the first to share your thoughts!
Reviews from the Original Source
Love love love!!! I had leftovers and couldn’t wait to eat it the next day!!! So so good! My daughter doesn’t like celery so I put it in my small chopper including the onions! It did the job and the taste was incredible!! Thank you Jenn!
This macaroni salad is SO good!! I may have missed it somehow but what is a serving size of this? 1 cup? I probably ate at least 3 yesterday!
Loved this salad! Going to be our “go to”!
Delicious and always a summer hit at BBQs.
This homemade version is delicious and just perfect for all the BBQs that will be happening soon!
So funny I stumbled across this recipe today - it's my hubby's bday and I've been trying to figure out what to make him. He's a huge macaroni salad fan AND I already had everything I needed in the house to make this! Saving it to eat with him tonight but of course I already snuck a bowl and it is DELISH.
Delicious!
I used the dressing with a mac salad of my own, with garden tomatoes, red onion, celery, peas, eggs and chopped dill pickle. The dressing is a great tangy compliment. Thanks!
I've been following your blog for a while now, tried out a good few of your recipes and loved every one of them. Made this one this weekend to take to a party, and I'm seriously in love. I would have never thought to try adding greek yogurt, but the flavor makes it really tangy and interesting. It was just wonderful and it look really pretty with all the red from the peppers and the green from the celery.I regret not putting the extra dressing on the side and mixing it up when I got to the party, but between the tiny microfridge at work, and the lack of counter to mix things on at my friends house I figured it'd be easier to just do it at home while I was already mixing. It was still delicious, but the pasta definitely absorbed the dressing.Cant wait to try it again(and follow the instructions). :)
I may or may not have eaten two servings myself. Send help. And you will be happy to know that the pickiest eater (sadly the husband, not the 4 year old) approved and the slightly less picky eater also gave it a thumbs up. Next time I'm going to try it with a little bacon! :)
Did you make this recipe?
Leave a Comment