Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, cajun macaroni salad. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook cajun macaroni salad using 17 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Cajun Macaroni Salad:
- Get Elbow Macaroni, cooked
- Take Hard-boiled Eggs, diced
- Make ready -cans White Tuna,
- Get -slices Bacon, crumbled
- Make ready Tomatoes, cut into wedges
- Get -can (28 oz) Sliced Peaches, drained
- Make ready Green Onions, diced
- Make ready Celery, diced
- Get Hellmann's Mayonnaise
- Get Frenches Yellow Mustard
- Make ready Hot Sauce, (opt.)
- Get Lemon or Lime juice
- Make ready Cajun Seasoning, (I use slap-ya-mama)
- Prepare Sweet Paprika, (Hungarian)
- Prepare McCormick Smokehouse Black Pepper
- Get salt to taste
- Prepare Lettuce
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Instructions to make Cajun Macaroni Salad:
- Prepare Macaroni according to Package directions. Drain, and cool.
- Boil Eggs, about 14 minutes no more, Let cool in cold water for about 3 minutes; then crack and peel eggs; dice up in a small bowl and let cool completely.
- Fry up bacon strips, set on paper towel for 2 minutes then crumble them up into a small bowl; set aside.
- Cut and dice up Onions and Celery into a bowl; set aside.
- In a medium bowl, mix together mayonnaise, mustard, Lemon or Lime juice, and if you want! the hot sauce, cajun seasoning, Black pepper, paparika, and a pinch of salt. Mix well, set aside.
- Mix Everything together; accept tomatoes, peaches, and crumbled bacon.
- Building the salad: First, lay lettuce leaf or leaves if you want more on a plate or soup bowl. Secondly, put 1 to 11/2 cup of the cajun macaroni salad on top of the lettuce leaf. Thirdly, slide both tomatoe wedges and peach wedges slightly under the macaroni salad. Lastly, garnish with crumbled bacon and a mint leaf. Serve and Enjoy!
The flavors compliment each other so well. Of course, if you don't like bell peppers or shallots, just leave them out! But we think they add a nice, but subtle, dimension to the salad. This Cajun Macaroni Salad is so easy, just three steps really: Boil the macaroni, rinse with cool water, toss with olive oil. Mix all the rest of the ingredients in a bowl.
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