Orange Zested Macaroni Pasta Salad
- Ready In:
- 8mins
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Serves:
-
4-6
ingredients
- 4 cups cooked macaroni or 4 cups other pastas
- 1⁄2 orange, zest and juice of
- 1 cup mayonnaise
- 1⁄2 onion, diced very fine
- 2 -4 tablespoons chopped fresh flat-leaf Italian parsley, to taste
- 1⁄2 red bell pepper, diced (optional)
- 2 scallions, diced (optional)
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder (optional)
- 1 teaspoon paprika (optional)
- black pepper
- 1 dash salt
directions
- Combine ingredients. Best with lots of black pepper, in my opinion.
- Orange flavor will get stronger as it sits in the fridge. Zesting all the peel from the 1/2 orange will make the orange flavor rather strong, especially if you plan to refrigerate before serving.
- If you don't have a zester, crosshatch an area of orange peel with light cuts from a sharp knife, then "shave" the pieces off. It's very easy and with heavy crosshatching yields results comparable to using a good zester.
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