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I am eagerly awaiting my morning after breakfast of more mac n pasta salad!! Thank you so much!! I divvied it up for my friends to take home – and they opened their baggies to scrape a remaining tablespoon from the mountain they started with on their plate to make sure no scrap was left behind. I did quality assurance (:P) every couple hours and you could taste how quickly the flavors married together. The tips on cooking / mashing potatoes (I didn’t have the russets I thought I had but yukons worked great!!) and the doneness of the pasta were tips that apply to any recipe! A handful of grated cheddar (it looked like the carrot). Scallions not onion (low FODMAP), A couple chopped hard boiled eggs. I made a few changes (doesn’t everyone tweak?) I like salad extra sweet so that soupcon of sugar became a half cup. Humbly I kneel and pass my crown and sceptre to you. I have always considered my potato salad to be the best in the universe but really wanted to try this one. Serve with tasty slow cooked BBQ, grilled meat, or a big scoop of Spam Fried Rice! Stay tuned for that recipe in a couple of days! In a large bowl, mix the boiled macaroni with the peas, carrots, and grated onion. Next, mix the dressing: add the mayonnaise, milk, cider vinegar, and sugar. It should be about half chunky and half smooth. In a separate bowl, mash the potatoes into a coarse mash. Cook the macaroni until it’s fully softened-not necessarily al dente. So, for anyone else who has returned from a Hawaiian vacation and is searching for the elusive taste of paradise, here’s our version of a Hawaiian mac salad recipe!īoil the macaroni and the potatoes in two separate pots simultaneously. People in the buffet line stared with zero shame as I scooped-also with zero shame.

Ate a mountain of mac salad at a luau, augmented with small piles of everything else.

(But we did salvage these trips with poke.

Went to Foodland to see if they sold house-made mac salad.

Proceeded to neglect the rest of my dinner and just eat the mac salad. Proved my glutton status by ordering another scoop of mac salad.

Was at a restaurant with a huge plate of food and a dwindling pile of mac salad.

When we did have mac salad for a plate lunch shared among my sister and two cousins, I was verging on wolfishly protective over the small scoop of mac salad it came with.

On our most recent trip to Maui, here are the ways this irrational love for Hawaiian mac salad manifested itself…

In short, mac salad is everything you could want as the highly valued sidekick on your plate lunch. Its subtle vinegary sweetness makes it a main event in and of itself, not just a side.

It’s a wonderfully complex carb-tastic side-dish, augmented with chunky potatoes, which give it lots of texture and body. It seems so unassuming, but the brilliance of Hawaiian mac salad is that it’s not a gloopy, undifferentiated mayonnaise-y mess like what you might find on the mainland. My Favorite Food in Hawaii?įor me, mac (“macaroni”) salad was the unexpected MVP of our first trip to Hawaii. In other words, it’s a peak highlight of Hawaii’s food scene (with the exception, perhaps of the mountains of delicious poke). a bed of rice, a scoop of mac salad, and a heaping serving of a meat dish like lau lau, kalua pork, or huli huli chicken. Hawaiian Mac Salad is the cornerstone of a good “plate lunch,” i.e.

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