Dinner Time Mac Salad. Learn how to make a local favorite side dish, Mac Salad. It isn't exactly a true Hawaiian dish but it has been a favorite side dish. So adjust your time in the Instant Pot accordingly or cook noodles on the stove.
A gluten-free, keto cheeseburger salad recipe like this makes a healthy lunch or dinner. Side dishes for mac and cheese can be as easy as sliced apples and carrot sticks or a bagged salad. Or you can steam a bag of frozen vegetables and call dinner done, too. You can cook Dinner Time Mac Salad using 13 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Dinner Time Mac Salad
- It's of Main ingredient.
- Prepare 16 oz of package of pasta whatever you like, I used large sized elbows.
- You need 1 can of tuna in water, you can use two cans if you really like tuna, not me....
- You need 1 large of vadalia onion chopped small.
- It's 1 can of peas, drained really well although I didn't have any to use today.
- Prepare of Dressing.
- It's 3/4 cup of Helmanns mayo, yes it makes a difference....
- It's 1 tsp of salt.
- Prepare 1 1/2 tsp of ground black pepper, fresh would be better.
- It's 3/4 tsp of garlic powder.
- It's 1/2 tsp of onion powder.
- Prepare 3/4 tbsp of sugar for slight sweetness (optional).
- Prepare 1/2 tbsp of sweet relish (optional).
Mac salad neutralized these salty, sweet, sauce-heavy proteins, adding extra calories at little additional cost and rounding out the meal. Diners who don't serve mac salad and stock Tabasco sauce ought to be ashamed of themselves. I can eat it any time of day or night. Garbage plates can be made in any diner if they serve mac salad and a good Hot Sauce, pretty much anything besides Franks.
Dinner Time Mac Salad step by step
- This salad is a meal in itself, one my sons have always enjoyed.
- Start by boiling water in a large pot, add your pasta and cook about 8 minutes, should be al dente, dont want it mushy, drain and rinse with cold water until pasta is cool. Put pasta, tuna, onions and any veggie you are using together with other ingredients in a large bowl and GENTLY mix, so you dont get good all over like I do, chill until ready to eat.
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