Keep with the Amish theme and make this potato salad. Amish Potato Salad – Every picnic I’ve been to always has both macaroni and potato salad.Getting ready to plan a cook out or a picnic? Here are more recipes you can serve with macaroni salad: Storing your Amish macaroni salad in an airtight container also helps keep it from drying out in the fridge. Right before serving, stir in the remaining half of the dressing.Īlthough it’s not a necessary step, it guarantees at least half of the dressing won’t be absorbed. Toss the pasta with half of the dressing then chill as directed. If you want to ensure a foolproof creamy macaroni salad, you can use the same method I do for my Caesar Macaroni Salad. If there’s water left on the noodles, the dressing won’t coat it and instead get diluted and absorbed. You want to make sure the pasta is completely dry after draining and rinsing it. How do I keep macaroni salad from drying out?Įver make pasta salad, only to have it absorb all of the mayonnaise and leave you with dry pasta salad? When left unrinsed, the starch causes the pasta to clump together. Not only does this stop the cooking process, it helps keep the pasta from sticking together because it washes the starches away. However, you definitely want to rinse it under cold water when making pasta salad because you’re intentionally serving it cold. Cold water would bring the temperature down, and you certainly don’t want to eat cold noodles for dinner.
Typically when you drain pasta, you don’t rinse it because you’re serving it hot. However, if you’re in a hurry to serve, chill for at least 1 hour minimum. Make sure you leave enough time to chill! Refrigerate it for at least 24 hours to allow the flavors to develop. This is also the perfect recipe to use up those hard boiled eggs you may have leftover from Easter. By the time the pasta is finished, everything is ready to assemble. While you wait for the water, to boil, whisk together the dressing and prep the vegetables. That’s because if you salt it first then get distracted, the water will reduce and become too salty. I personally don’t salt the water until after it boils and before adding the pasta. Making the best Amish Macaroni Salad is easy! First things first, start boiling the water for the pasta. It really comes down to how sweet your mayonnaise (or Miracle Whip) is.Īs always if you’re unsure, start with a small amount, taste, and add more as necessary. Some people thought the sugar in the dressing was the right amount while others said I should cut back next time. Please note Miracle Whip is a bit sweeter than mayo, so you may need to taste and adjust the dressing. I highly recommend using real mayonnaise, but if you prefer the taste of Miracle Whip, you can use that instead. I love mayonnaise but hate Miracle Whip, which has less vegetable oil and isn’t qualified to be called mayonnaise (hence it’s called salad dressing). The ingredients are real mayonnaise (not Miracle Whip), yellow mustard, vinegar, sugar, and smoked paprika. However, Amish macaroni salad has a sweet and tangy dressing. When I mention this recipe, I’m often asked the difference between Amish macaroni salad and regular macaroni salad.īoth versions use cooked pasta, hard boiled eggs, and a creamy mayonnaise dressing. Cook the pasta, whisk together the dressing, toss, and done.Īnd since typically macaroni salad makes tons of serving, I made small batch pasta salad, which makes about 4 servings or so. Now I make my own, which is really easy to do. I have no clue if it’s only PA Walmarts or if all Walmarts sell it, but their macaroni salad is based off of an Amish recipe. I have grown up eating this from the Walmart deli. If there is one thing I’m glad they invented, it’s their macaroni salad.Īmish macaroni salad? What is that, you ask. However, I have seen Pennsylvania Dutch (dress like the Amish but believe in technology) near where I went to college and at the zoo on the carousel. Pittsburgh’s side of the state isn’t really Amish country it’s more towards the Lancaster area.
Even when I was at Kate Voegele’s concert, her opening act was amazed she saw Amish people. When I was in Ireland, I learned the first thing people think of when I tell them I’m from Pennsylvania is the Amish. No picnic is complete without this sweet and creamy Amish Macaroni Salad! This recipe is similar to Walmart’s Amish Macaroni Salad with a tangy dressing made of mayonnaise, mustard, vinegar, sugar, and smoked paprika.