How to Make Easy Southern Style Macaroni Salad

Great southern style macaroni salad recipe. This is a simple recipe and it tastes great. Learn how to make great tasting macaroni salad fast. This is one of my favorite recipes. If you like bell peppers, you should really love this macaroni salad recipe. It is very popular in my family and has been for years.

Things You'll Need

• 16 oz of elbow noodles
• 1 cup of mayonnaise
• 1 tsp of mustard
• 1 1/2 tsp of sugar
• 1/4 cup of sweet relish
• 1/4 cup of chopped uncooked bell peppers(red or green)
• 1 TBSP of chopped sweet onions
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/4 tsp pepper

Instructions

1. In a large bowl, combine mayonnaise, mustard, relish, peppers, onions, salt, pepper and sugar and mix well. Refrigerate until ready to add noodles. You may use splenda instead of sugar in this recipe. Just use the same amount of splenda as you would sugar.

2. Cook 16 oz of elbow noodles until tender. Drain well. After draining rinse them with cold water until they are cool. Drain well again. Mix them in with other ingredients that you refrigerated.

3. Keep refrigerated. You may add extra mayonnaise to make your macaroni salad creamier. You may refrigerate the macaroni salad for 30 minutes or eat it when it is finished.

Tips & Warnings

• I would recommend not leaving out the bell peppers in this recipe, it really makes this macaroni salad great.

• You may use a hard boiled egg in this recipe if you choose. Just slice it up into small pieces and mix in with the macaroni salad.

• Before you decide to add anything extra to this recipe, wait until the noodles are mixed into the ingredients, then taste it and decide.

• Make sure the noodles are cooked thoroughly, otherwise they will be hard after they are refrigerated.