Fancy Pasta or Potato Salad

Submitted by Marsha D.

"This recipe can either be made with your favorite macaroni shape pasta or you can use for a tasty pototo salad. I got this recipe from the Southern Magazine years ago when I first started cooking. I just changed the elbow macaroni to the ditalini (small tube shape) macaroni and added dill relish."

 

• Ready In: 25mins
• Ingredients: 14
• Serves: 4-6

ingredients

• 1 cup ditalini, cooked and drained (pasta- small tube macaroni) or 2 cups potatoes, diced, cooked and drained
• 4 slices cooked bacon, crumbled
• 1⁄2 cup celery, diced
• 1⁄4 cup green peppers or 1/4 cup red pepper, diced
• 1⁄4 cup onion, diced
• 1 tablespoon dill relish
• 2 teaspoons dill weed or 2 teaspoons dill seeds

• Dressing

• 1⁄4 cup mayonnaise
• 1 tablespoon ketchup
• 1⁄2 teaspoon chili powder
• 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 1⁄4 teaspoon black pepper
• 1 teaspoon sugar

directions

1. Cook macaroni according to pkg. or potatoes. Drain well.
2. Combine in large bowl, cooked macaroni (or potatoes),bacon crumbles, celery, onion, green or red peppers, and dill relish.
3. Add dill weed or dill seeds and stir well.
4. In a small bowl combine mayonnaise, ketchup, chili powder, Worcestershire sauce, salt, black pepper and sugar. Stir well.
5. Pour dressing over macaroni salad or potatoes and stir to combine.
6. Chill 30 minutes to 1 hour before serving.
7. Note: Using macaroni, this will last a week in the refrigerator. Also this has the best flavor a day are two after making.
8. You may also serve warm but its best chilled.

Reviews

[Roxygirl in Colorado]

This was a "hidden gem" of a recipe! I was just looking for a way to use up some dialini and came across this. I love the combo of flavors in the dressing (the chili powder makes it!). I used Heinz chili sauce instead of ketchup. I did prefer this when freshly made as the noodles soak up a lot of the sauce upon refrig. Thanks Marsha, for posting- Roxygirl

 

[iris5555]

I also made the pasta version, omitting the dill relish. The dressing is very good and a nice change from the usual. I did reduce the amount of salt and found the salad was still well seasoned.

 

[*Parsley*]

I made the pasta version. Nice and different. It has more of a sophisticated flavor than traditional macaroni salads. Thanx for posting this. I look forward to making the potato salad version!