Homemade Macaroni Salad

[Music] hello everybody I'm the Big Easy chef I'd like to show you how to make macaroni salad now can you just imagine a bowl of creamy macaroni salad wow you did really good now can you visualize yourself taking a bite out of that salad again you did a great job but I think this spoon could have been a little larger now this is my very own personal secret recipe I've been making this salad for 40 years the nice thing about it is that it tastes great people love it and it's easy to make once you start making this salad you're gonna become the macaroni salad king or queen so let's run over into the kitchen and whip this salad up let's see what shaking and get to bacon tikka started with the macaroni salad take a large pot and add cold water to it about two quarts to three quarts place the pot on the stove turn the burner on high wait for the water to come to a boil once the water is boiling add the macaroni this is one pound of macaroni I'm using regular classic macaroni you could use different types of macaroni how about seashells they would be nice for a picnic at the beach or how about these wagon wheels they would work great for a barbecue once the pot of water has come back to a boil reduce the heat down to a medium boil cook the macaroni until as swelled up and nice and tender I cooked the macaroni for 17 minutes and it always comes out just perfect now with the macaroni cooking on the stove it's time to start on the other ingredients cut some celery into large chunks about two and a half cups or a half of a large stock I have the kept celery ready to rinse with clean cold water cut one sweet onion or yellow onion will work I'm using a yellow onion as they didn't have any of those nice sweet onions at the store cut the onion into large chunks it took about 1/2 of this medium sized onion to make a cup of roughly chopped onion place the onion and the celery into the food processor bowl make sure all the celery gets in the bowl now get in there get in that bowl now chop up the mixture use the pulse mode on the processor watch the celery and onion get a nice ride you want to get this mixture chopped very fine this is exactly how fine you want the mixture chopping them fine gives a nice subtle flavor to the salad take a can of large black olives that's 6 ounce can drained weight rinse the olives to take out a lot of the salt it is important to do things such as rinsing the salt out of the olives you'll end up with a nice balanced flavor without any overpowering flavors in your salad now slice the olives in half this is a time you want to cut up some nice roasted red bell peppers this is going to give the macaroni salad a nice sweet flavor I chopped the peppers into this size and it's about 1 cup of unchopped peppers now that the macaronis cooked us nice and tender place it in a strainer and rinse it with plenty of cold water allow the macaroni to drain for a while you want to get as much of the water out of the macaroni as you can place the macaroni into a large mixing bowl dump in the black olives get those roasted red bell peppers on top of the olives and macaroni add to the bowl 1 12 ounce jar of sweet pickle relish slide in the onion and celery mixture now this is the time for the star of the salad the mayonnaise you're going to add one quart four cups the mayonnaise is gonna make this salad be nice and creamy when I use mayonnaise from the store I like to use Hellmann's or best foods next add 1 and 1/2 teaspoons of kosher salt drop in 1/2 teaspoon of ground black pepper give the mixture a good stir to make sure all the ingredients blend well with each other you can taste the salad to make sure there's enough salt and pepper as it's easier to add some more than to take it out I think the salt and pepper are the only ingredients that you may need to adjust the other ingredients will be perfect this salad needs to set for at least four hours before eating it's better to make it the day before as the ingredients get a chance to blend with each other so there you have it now you have your own secret recipe for macaroni salad I have to warn you about this part once you start making this out people are gonna want you to make it all the time so now you've been warned remember what they say you are what you eat so eat healthy until next time I'm the Big Easy chef [Music] [Music] you can see this macaroni salad came out nice and creamy you are gonna have to take my word for it the flavor of this salad is out of this world it's amazing there's something this easy to make can taste so great [Music] [Music]

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Id: Y5wksXNIqLs

Length: 8min 25sec (505 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 10 2013