Macaroni salad

Name: Macaroni salad
Ingredients: 4 whole carrots; 3 ribs celery; bell pepper; ¼ cup red onion; 1 lb pasta; ¾ cup homemade mayonnaise; ⅓ cup sour cream; 2 tbsp vinegar or pickle brine; 1 tbsp Dijon mustard; ¼ tsp garlic powder; kosher salt; freshly ground black pepper; 4 tbsp fresh dill; 2 tbsp parsley

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▶ 1:53

4 whole carrots
3 ribs celery
bell pepper

Cut the top off the bell pepper, pull out the core, cut off the base, slit it down one side and press it flat, cut out the pith and chop it into squares.

Carrots, celery and the bell pepper trickPeeling

▶ 2:19

¼ cup red onion

Halve the onion and cut off the pointed tip leaving the root intact, peel back the top layer as a handle, make evenly spaced lateral cuts and one longitudinal cut, then mince.

Mincing red onionMincing

▶ 2:45

Cook the pasta in salted water about one minute shy of the package recommendation, so it does not go soggy after a night in the fridge.

Undercooking and rinsing the pastaBoiling Read

▶ 2:58

Rinse the pasta with cold water to wash off excess starch and cool it rapidly; hot pasta must not go into cold mayo.

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1 lb pasta
¾ cup homemade mayonnaise
⅓ cup sour cream
2 tbsp vinegar or pickle brine
1 tbsp Dijon mustard
¼ tsp garlic powder

Whisk the mayonnaise, sour cream, vinegar or pickle brine, Dijon and garlic powder together.

Mixing the mac salad dressing and assemblingWhisking

▶ 3:35

kosher salt
freshly ground black pepper
4 tbsp fresh dill
2 tbsp parsley

Season with kosher salt and black pepper and whisk in the chopped dill and parsley before anything else goes in.

▶ 3:59

Add the chopped vegetables and the cooled rinsed pasta, mix thoroughly and taste repeatedly for seasoning.