Cajun Macaroni Salad

This Cajun Macaroni Salad is thing but boring. Richly flavored with Creole mustard, cayenne pepper, and blistery sauce, it’s a pasta crockery that truly has immoderate kick.

Cajun Macaroni Salad is simply a Louisiana-style broadside crockery that is wonderfully creamy and cleanable for your adjacent cookout. Creole mustard and reddish vino vinegar marque it perfectly tangy.

Creole Mustard

Alot of the spirit successful this look comes from the Creole mustard. I usage Zatarain’s Creole Mustard. Creole mustard truly has immoderate footwear to it. It’s a spicy full atom mustard that typically contains horseradish and spices. You tin substitute brownish mustard oregon Dijon mustard, but it won’t sensation rather the same.

Pasta Shape

No request to usage elbow pasta. You tin usage shells, cavatappi oregon adjacent wagon wheels.

Cajun Macaroni Salad Recipe Tips

It’s champion to refrigerate this pasta crockery for astatine slightest 30 minutes earlier serving truthful the flavors person clip to blend. If mixing unneurotic much than 1 hr successful advance, immoderate of the dressing volition beryllium soaked up by the pasta and you volition person to adhd a small much mayonnaise oregon immoderate beverage to it to marque it creamy again.

Be definite not to overcook the pasta oregon the texture of the pasta volition get excessively brushed and mushy erstwhile it soaks up immoderate of the dressing.

Make It Spicier

With 1 spoon of blistery condiment (I usage TABASCO oregon Zatarain’s Hot Sauce) and a 1/2 spoon of cayenne pepper, positive the creole mustard, this pasta crockery has a bully kick. If it’s not spicy enough, adhd different pinch oregon 2 of cayenne pepper.

More Great Southern Sides

• Smothered Cajun Green Beans
• Creole Potato Salad
• Dirty Rice
• Stewed Okra and Tomatoes
• Southern Fried Okra

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Cajun Macaroni Salad

This Cajun Macaroni Salad is thing but boring. Richly flavored with Creole mustard, cayenne pepper, and blistery sauce, it's a pasta crockery that truly has immoderate kick.

Course Side Dish

Cuisine Southern

Keyword cajun, pasta salad

Servings 10

Calories 432kcal

Ingredients

• 1 pound elbow macaroni
• 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
• 1 1/2 cups mayonnaise
• 3 tablespoons Creole mustard
• 3 tablespoons red vino vinegar
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice
• 1 teaspoon smoked paprika
• 1 teaspoon hot sauce
• 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
• 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
• 2 celery ribs, diced
• 1/2 medium sweet onion, diced
• 1 tablespoon chopped caller parsley
• 2 hard-boiled eggs, chopped

Instructions

• Cook pasta successful a ample cookware of salted h2o according to bundle directions. Drain. Rinse with acold h2o and drain again. Toss with olive oil.
• While pasta cooks, disturbance unneurotic mayonnaise, Creole mustard, reddish vino vinegar, citrus juice, smoked paprika, blistery sauce, cayenne pepper, and achromatic capsicum successful a ample bowl.

  Add 2 tablespoons of h2o and premix in.
• Stir successful the cooked pasta, onion, celery, eggs, and parsley.
• Check for seasoning and adhd brackish to taste.
• Refrigerate for 20 to 30 minutes earlier serving.

Nutrition

Calories: 432kcal

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