Melt in Your Mouth Macaroni Salad

Submitted by Roxygirl in Colorado

"This macaroni salad is garden-fresh tasting with its unique blend of shredded carrots, cucumbers, and radishes. The buttermilk dressing has a garlicky dill flavor. This was clipped out of Ladie's Home Journal magazine about 20 years ago."

 

• Ready In: 40mins
• Ingredients: 15
• Serves: 10

ingredients

• Dressing

• 1 cup buttermilk
• 1⁄2 cup mayonnaise
• 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
• 1 teaspoon minced garlic
• 3⁄4 teaspoon fresh ground pepper
• 1⁄8 teaspoon red pepper sauce (Tabasco)

• Pasta Salad

• 8 ounces elbow macaroni
• 1 cup shredded carrot
• 1 bunch radish, halved and sliced
• 1 cucumber, peeled, quartered, seeded, and sliced (use spoon to hollow out the seeds)
• 1⁄4 cup sliced green onion
• 1⁄4 cup chopped parsley
• 3 tablespoons chopped fresh dill (I've only used fresh) or 1 tablespoon dill weed (I've only used fresh)

directions

1. Dressing:.
2. In large bowl whisk all ingredients until smooth.
3. Pasta salad:.
4. Cook macaroni according to package directions just until tender.
5. Drain and rinse under cold water.
6. Add to dressing.
7. Add remaining ingredients and toss well.

Reviews

[Beansy]

Absolutely love this salad. Perfect as posted. Will make again and again!! Thank you for the great recipe!!

 

[mandabacca]

Very flavorful! I used a tablespoon dried dill and a tablespoon dried parsley. I might try it with less dill next time. I wish it were a tad healthier so I might experiment with reducing the amount of mayonnaise. I used rotini because it looked so appetizing in the picture.

 

[Koriander]

I enjoy using buttermilk and we do like this but first felt it needed an extra something. I added some sliced black olives, celery and apple sausage - it was pretty good. Tonight my husband added a small amt of horseradish and he said, "perfect!" I will make it again but add our little touches.

 

[ErinCate]

I loved all the different herbs and veggies, which not only give a nice fresh crunch but also make for a very colorful salad. We had it as a side with slow cooked ribs, and it was all quite tasty!

 

[DDW]

Loved this salad!! I made "as is" except left out the parsley. Delish! Served it with my Best Ever BBQ chicken and found that the sauce is really good with this salad. You could add all sorts of yummy veggies or ingredients to this salad to spice it up even more.