Pasta Salad
Ingredients
Dry Ingredients
- 1/2 tsp Sugar
- 1 1/2 tsp Paprika
- 1 tbsp Onion Powder
- 1 tsp Garlic Powder
- 1 tsp White Pepper
- 1 tsp Celery Salt
- 1 tsp Basil
- 1 tsp Oregano
Wet Ingredients
- 1 cup Mayonnaise
- 2 tbsp Apple Cider Vinegar
- 1 tbsp Fresh Thyme
- 1 tbsp Fresh Oregano
- 1 tbsp Fresh Basil
- 2 tsp Garlic finely chopped
Pasta
- 3 cups Macaroni
- 1 tbsp Kosher Salt
Vegetables
- 1/2 cup Red Pepper finely diced
- 1/2 cup Red Onion finely diced
- 1/2 cup Celery finely diced
- 2 tbsp Jalapeno finely diced, optional
Instructions
Cook Pasta
- Bring 4L of water to a boil. Add 1tbsp of kosher salt.
- Add 3 cups of pasta, boil pasta uncovered for one minute less than the instructions on the package indicate.
- Drain pasta.
Prepare Remaining Ingredients
- If you are crunched for time, do the following steps while the water is heating up and/or the noodles are boiling.
- Mix dry ingredients in a bowl. In a separate bowl, mix the wet ingredients. Combine the dry and wet ingredients. Set aside until the pasta is cooked.
- Finely dice the red pepper, red onion, and celery. Set aside until the pasta is cooked.
Final Assembly
- As soon as the pasta is drained, add the mixture of dry and wet ingredients, stir well. Add vegetables, stir well.
- Put in a serving container and refrigerate for 1-2hrs.