Salads are a healthy form of food as they have many ingredients blended together to give the right taste. Macaroni salad is a delicious item which can be savoured to your heart’s content, especially during summer. Here is a recipe on how to prepare macaroni salad.

Preperation time: 10-20 minutes.

Method:

1. Cook and blanch 1 cup of macaroni pasta. 
2. Rinse and drain before putting into a bowl
3. Add 1 cup of Mayonnaise.
4. Add vinegar, mustard powder, sugar, salt and pepper powder.
5. Put in the sliced celery pieces and the cut onions.
6.  Garnish with Coriander.

Nutritive value:

# Pasta (Macaroni) is rich in carbohydrates.

# Coriander, also known as Parsley or cilantro, is rich in Vitamin A and Vitamin C

# Onions are abundant in Vitamin A and Calcium. Onions also aid in lowering blood pressure.

# Mayonnaise is cholesterol-free and good in proteins.

# Celery, also belonging to the parsley family, is rich in Vitamin A and serves as a good low-calorie, high-fibre item for dieters.

As with most of the salads, it would be tastier if allowed to stay for some time so as to extract the juices of all the ingredients.