Description
A creamy, comforting pasta salad featuring hard-boiled eggs, mayonnaise, and zesty pickles, perfect for family gatherings and potlucks.
Ingredients
Scale
- 8 ounces small pasta, like elbows or ditalini
- 3/4 cup mayonnaise
- 1 tablespoon pickle juice
- 1 tablespoon dijon mustard
- 6 hard-boiled eggs, peeled and diced
- 1/2 cup red onion, finely chopped
- 1/3 cup chopped pickles
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/2 teaspoon paprika, plus more for serving
- Salt and pepper to taste
- Green onions, sliced, for garnish
Instructions
- Cook the pasta according to package instructions. Drain and rinse with cold water to cool it down. Transfer to a large mixing bowl.
- Add the mayo, pickle juice, dijon mustard, diced hard-boiled eggs, red onion, pickles, garlic powder, paprika, and salt and pepper to the cooled pasta.
- Toss everything together lovingly until well combined, making sure every pasta piece is coated in that creamy goodness.
- Chill the pasta salad in the refrigerator until you are ready to serve.
- Before serving, sprinkle with a little more paprika and top with sliced green onions for that pop of color and flavor.
Notes
This pasta salad tastes even better the next day; prepare it a day in advance and store it in the refrigerator.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 15 minutes
- Category: Salad
- Method: No Bake
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cup
- Calories: 320
- Sugar: 2g
- Sodium: 450mg
- Fat: 21g
- Saturated Fat: 3g
- Unsaturated Fat: 7g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 29g
- Fiber: 2g
- Protein: 9g
- Cholesterol: 180mg