Southern Macaroni Salad Recipe | Tuna Macaroni Salad

welcome back to cooking with tammy live i'm tammy and today i'm going to show you how to make my delicious quick and easy southern macaroni salad now one thing that i definitely appreciate about living in the south was the macaroni salad absolutely amazing so today i decided to recreate it and i'm gonna show you guys how to put everything together in one two three it's gonna be so quick and easy and it's definitely gonna be a crowd pleaser so with all of that being said let's introduce these ingredients and get started for this recipe we're gonna need elbow macaroni after i boiled it i drained it off and now here's the thing sometimes when making macaroni salad some people prefer to do it al dente meaning it has like a little firmness to it however i'm not making baked macaroni and cheese so i boiled it a little bit past al dente because i don't want it to be too firm i want it to be firm but not too firm get what i'm saying i'm also going to be using two cans of tuna love tuna and that's the albacore tuna and however you can use the tune in the pouch or the can whether it comes in oil water totally your preference we also have some diced celery and some hard boiled eggs that i just roughly chopped no particular size and we also have two types of mayo yes now this is what's gonna really tie in a southern macaroni salad all right i'm using duke's mayo however you can use hellman's as well i've used it before and i'm also using miracle whip and we have some diced onions as well as salt and ground black pepper and some smoked paprika anyway let's get to cooking guys first off what we're going to do is we're going to make our dressing so i'm going to add the mayo to the bowl and make sure you have a decent sized bowl because once you start to add those ingredients everything is going to become a little bit more and i'm also going to go in and add that miracle whip as well mix and combine both ingredients as i mentioned in my previous video with the potato salad i love doing it this way it's so much easier because you get to make the dressing first before adding the pasta that way you get to maneuver it a little bit easier trust me works out perfectly we're also going to add our diced onions make sure you get all of those diced onions in there now this part is up to you as well whether or not if you like a lot of onions or you don't like a lot of onions and of course you can substitute the yellow onions with either white onions or purple onions totally up to you now that everything is well combined we're going to go in and add that diced celery not only is it going to give us that color contrast but it's gonna give us that nice crunch yes now that everything is combined we're gonna scrape the sides of the bowl make sure we get everything we're gonna add some salt to taste of course we're not going to add too much because we're not trying to get high blood pressure off this macaroni salad now and also you can always go back in there once you do your taste test and you realize it's not salty enough you can always add some more salt and we're going to add some freshly cracked black pepper is something about freshly cracked black pepper that i really love the only thing is it takes forever to get it out of the jar i mean like for real but anyway now that that's added we're gonna combine it as well and i'm gonna go in there with that tuna yes break it up just a little bit and combine it as well you don't want to break it up too much though however because you still want some chunky pieces in there because you want your macaroni salad to have texture now that that's combined last but not least we are going to add our pasta yes and what we're going to do is we're going to add just some of it we're not going to add all because we want this salad and pasta mixture to be manageable once we're done we're going to add the remaining half [Music] make sure every elbow macaroni is coated with sauce all right because our macaroni salad has to be what it has to be saucy now that everything is all mixed in and it's looking really good i want to add some sweet relish why not right so i'm going to go in add that sweet relish combine it as well and the sweet relish is going to provide a contrast of flavors some people i know they add a little vinegar as well as a little sugar that part is totally up to you [Music] and last but not least we're going to add our boiled eggs and i'm not going to mash it up into the salad but what i am going to do is i'm going to fold it in because you still want that texture and you want to be able when you're eating your salad to taste the eggs so to speak so we're just going to fold it in and once everything is well combined and folded in we want to make our macaroni salad look nice and pretty for the party so what we're going to do is we're going to add that smoked paprika of course you don't have smoked paprika so what add regular paprika because the paprika is just to beautify it basically and we're gonna also add some dried parsley and isn't she lovely absolutely beautiful it's about that time to do our taste test so guys i'm gonna need you to dig one in do a taste test see whether or not if your macaroni salad is up to par you're gonna adjust the flavors basically whether or not if you're gonna need extra salt a little bit more relish you have to know what flavors you're trying to go for and just add it accordingly and of course as always thank you so much for cooking with tammy and i will catch you guys in another video talk to you later bye guys oh [Music] oh [Music] oh you

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Length: 8min 1sec (481 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 08 2020