Melt in Your Mouth Macaroni Salad

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: 40 mins
• 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.