Traditional Amish Macaroni Salad

Submitted by Annacia

"This is from Amish Recipes.Net. It's an hour chill time not cooking."

 

• Ready In: 1hr 20mins
• Ingredients: 12
• Serves: 6-8

ingredients

• 2 cups uncooked elbow macaroni
• 3 hard-cooked eggs, chopped
• 1 small onion, chopped
• 3 stalks celery, chopped
• 1 small red bell pepper, seeded and chopped
• 2 tablespoons dill pickle relish
• 2 cups creamy salad dressing (e.g. Miracle Whip)
• 3 tablespoons prepared yellow mustard
• 3⁄4 cup white sugar
• 2 1⁄4 teaspoons white vinegar
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 3⁄4 teaspoon celery seed

directions

1. Bring a pot of lightly salted water to a boil.
2. Add macaroni, and cook for 8 to 10 minutes, until tender.
3. Drain, and set aside to cool.
4. In a large bowl, stir together the eggs, onion, celery, red pepper, and relish.
5. In a small bowl, stir together the salad dressing, mustard, white sugar, vinegar, salt and celery seed.
6. Pour over the vegetables, and stir in macaroni until well blended.
7. Cover and chill for at least 1 hour before serving.

Reviews

[Peggy loves Dessert]

I've been using your recipe for years without doing a review! As written it's pretty good. I take out the red bell pepper, change the dill to sweet peppers, change the vinegar to milk and add a can of drained tuna. Then it's exactly what my mom used to make! Thank you for giving me a recipe to work from to create my mom's!!

 

[Chocolatl]

I did use mayo and reduced the amount of sugar somewhat. I also added a dash of garlic. Do not even try to taste this before it has been chilled. It needs time for the flavors to marry. It's an excellent hot-weather dish, and I love that it calls for dill relish! Thanks for posting! Made for August 2010 Vegetarian Swap.

 

[chef313633]

Delicious my family enjoyed it. I didn't have celery seed so I used celery salt and omitted salt. Thanks for posting.

 

[Susie D]

Excellent version of a sweet macaroni salad! I thought the ingredients worked well in the amounts listed to make a pretty, colorful salad too. This would be a hit a a summer BBQ or potluck. Thank you for sharing your recipe!

 

[Carrie Richman]

Very nice blend of flavors! The dill relish is a get ingredient! Thanks for a great recipe!