Sweet Amish Macaroni Salad

Amish macaroni salad is a bright and aromatic salad with a sweetish creamy dressing. It contains simple and affordable ingredients – hard-boiled eggs, crispy fresh bell pepper, celery, and elbow macaroni. 

The salad dressing is creamy, tangy, and made with mayonnaise, sugar, mustard, dill pickle relish, vinegar, celery seed, and paprika (I prefer smoked!).

HOW LONG DOES SWEET AMISH MACARONI SALAD LAST?

The shelf life of Amish macaroni salad with vinegar and celery seed is about 3-5 days. Store it in a container with an airtight lid in the refrigerator.

HOW TO MAKE AMISH MACARONI SALAD

• Step 1. Boil macaroni until cooked according to package directions. Drain and let cool.
  While the pasta is cooking, combine all the dressing ingredients and mix well.
• Step 2. Combine cooked macaroni with diced celery, sweet pepper, eggs, and finely chopped onion. Stir.

• Step 3. Add salad dressing and mix well. Do not worry that there is too much dressing, the pasta will absorb some of it. If you don’t like too creamy salad, add 1/2 or 3/4 of the dressing to your taste.

RECIPE TIPS

1. You can try other types of pasta suitable for salads.
2. Use 1/2-3/4 dressing if you don’t like too creamy salad.
3. If you do not like too sweet salad, reduce the amount of sugar by half.

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Sweet Amish Macaroni Salad

Amish macaroni salad is a bright and aromatic salad with a sweetish creamy dressing.

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Course: Salad

Cuisine: American

Prep Time: 20 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 1 hour hour

Total Time: 1 hour hour 20 minutes minutes

Servings: 6

Calories: 576kcal

Ingredients

• 1 lb salad macaroni
• 4 hard-boiled eggs (chopped)
• 1 small onion, finely diced
• 3 celery ribs, diced small
• 1 small sweet pepper, seeded and diced small (red or orange)

Dressing;

• 2 cups light mayonnaise (do not use Miracle Whip)
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/8 cup yellow mustard
• 2 tablespoons dill pickle relish
• 1 tablespoon white vinegar or 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
• 3/4 teaspoon celery seed
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• paprika (to garnish)

Instructions

• Boil the pasta according to the instructions, drain the water.
• Combine all dressing ingredients and stir.
• Combine pasta, diced pepper, celery, onion, and eggs. Pour in the dressing (adjust the amount to your liking) and stir. It is advisable to cool it in the refrigerator for at least an hour before serving.

Nutrition

Calories: 576kcal | Carbohydrates: 81g | Protein: 14g | Fat: 23g

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