Macaroni Salad

Name: Macaroni Salad
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 8
Ingredients: 1 lb macaroni (elbow); 1 cup mayonnaise; 2 tbsp vinegar (cider); 1 tbsp mustard (Dijon); 2 tsp sugar; 2 unit celery (fine dice); 1 unit onion (red, minced); 1 unit bell pepper (fine dice); 1 tsp salt; ½ tsp black pepper

Vegetables & Salads · American

10 ingredients · 40 minutes · 8 servings

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410kcal7.9g protein21.6g fat45.1g carbs~$0.48/ serving*

Contains gluten, egg · sometimes contains soy — check the label

Restrictions

Containsgluten · eggIt is in an ingredient you cannot leave out.

Sometimes contains — check the labelsoy (Mayonnaise)Some brands have it, some do not. The recipe cannot tell, so this is the one you check yourself.

Diets

VegetarianPescatarianNo porkNo alcohol

Worked out from the ingredient list. It knows nothing about brands, shared equipment or cross contamination, and it is not a certification — if you have an allergy, you still have to read the label.

Ingredients

Servings:

1 lb	macaroni (elbow)
1 cup	mayonnaise
2 tbsp	vinegar (cider)
1 tbsp	mustard (Dijon)
2 tsp	sugar
2 unit	celery (fine dice)
1 unit	onion (red, minced)
1 unit	bell pepper (fine dice)
1 tsp	salt
½ tsp	black pepper

Optional

Not counted above. The dish works without them.

2 tbsp	sweet pickle relish (the deli direction)
2 unit	hard-boiled eggs (chopped in)

Steps

Boil10 min
salted water, a minute past the package — the cold rule again
the elbows a step past al dente for the same refrigerator physics as the pasta salad — drained, spread, and cooled to warm-not-hot
Whisk2 min
dressing: mayo + vinegar + Dijon + sugar + salt + pepper
- vinegar
- sugar
tasted sharp — deliberately sharper than seems right, because the pasta will absorb the acid first and the chill will mute what's left; this is the anticipatory seasoning that deli counters do by habit and home cooks learn by disappointment
Fold4 min
warm pasta + dressing + the crunch trinity
everything folded while the pasta can still drink — then refrigerated at least two hours; served after a stir and a taste, with the near-universal morning discovery that it wants one more splash of vinegar and a pinch of salt, which is not a failure but the recipe's second half