Magnificent Macaroni Salad

Submitted by Carole Whitmore

"This is a wonderful salad that goes great with everything. I'm not particularly fond of elbow macaroni so I experimented with the shells. Don't expect this to last for another meal. It'll be gone before you know it."

 

• Ready In: 40mins
• Ingredients: 14
• Serves: 6-8

ingredients

• 1 box medium pasta shell
• 6 hard boiled eggs
• 1⁄2 vidalia onion
• 2 stalks celery
• 1 can tuna fish, drained (packed in water)
• 1 green pepper
• 1 red pepper
• 4 teaspoons buttermilk
• 1⁄2 - 1 cup mayonnaise
• 1⁄4 cup sugar
• season salt or crazy salt
• black pepper
• 1 teaspoon paprika
• 1⁄4 cup parsley

directions

1. Cook shells per directions.
2. Remove yolks from hard boiled eggs.
3. Mash egg yolks with buttermilk, mayo, sugar, salt and pepper.
4. This makes the dressing.
5. Drain shells and rinse with cold water.
6. Add onion, celery, tuna fish, green and red pepper to shells.
7. Dice egg whites and add to shells.
8. Pour dressing over shells.
9. Add paprika and parsley.
10. Toss.

Reviews

[Pat McCardle]

I just finished making this salad. I hope you don't mind--I added about 1Tbl of honey mustard and 1/4 cup sour cream as we like the tang. Anyway, even at room temp, it is delicious. I DO like the idea of the mashed egg yolks. What a nice flavor!! I am going to try your chicken paprikash next. Keep on cookin'

 

[tamibic]

Very good, I scaled down to 4 servings and changed the tuna to fake crab.

 

[Carole Whitmore]

Pat that sounds like a really great idea. Every recipe can use a little tweeking. I'm going to try it myself. Thanks for the comment and idea

 

[sbera007]

Great. I left out the onions and the tuna. It was just a tad runny, so I think next time I will leave out the buttermilk. Reviewed for Pool Party 2010.

 

[RussianMama]

Made this for a barbeque last summer and it was a hit. I didnt use the tuna though.