Emeril's Macaroni Salad
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Everyday Food, July/August 2008
- Prep Time 30 minutes
- Total Time 35 minutes plus cooling
- Yield Serves 6
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Ingredients
- Coarse salt and ground pepper
- 1 pound elbow macaroni
- 2 ounces thinly sliced prosciutto, cut into strips
- 1 small shallot, minced
- 1/4 cup red-wine vinegar
- 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
- 1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 medium tomato, chopped
- 1/2 cup crumbled goat cheese (2 ounces)
- 1/4 cup pitted Cerignola olives (or your favorite olives), sliced
- 2 tablespoons capers
- 1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley
Directions
- In a large pot of boiling salted water, cook macaroni until al dente. In a small skillet, cook prosciutto over medium until crisp; discard fat.
- Combine shallot, vinegar, and mustard in a large bowl; whisk in oil in a slow, steady stream. Add tomato, cheese, prosciutto, olives, and capers.
- Drain pasta; add to bowl with tomato mixture, and toss. Add parsley; season with salt and pepper. Cool to room temperature, and serve.
Cook's Note
To store, refrigerate up to 1 day.
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We love this recipe, but we use domestic prosciutto 6-8 oz, at a third of the cost of imported and feta cheese. I add the very crisp prosciutto at the very last second, so it stays very crispy. Making it tonight to take to the Hollywood Bowl, its a great picnic meal.
The key to this recipe is to double all of the other ingredients and use the same amount of pasta as the recipie calls for. We loved it!
What would be a good substitute for tomatoes?
I rated this as 'For Adventurous Cooks' only because the cost-benefit of making the the entire pasta salad is pretty high (although I did triple the recipe!) in comparison to buying a boxed salad mix.
Because I didn't want to buy capers, I went to the anti-pasti bar at my grocery store and picked up some large, garlicky green olives and marinated mushrooms which I pulsed in the food processor. I also substituted the goat cheese with feta (unfortunately, my friends hate the chevre!)
MMSRJS: I was saying that the recipe calls for too much macaroni and that next time, I wouldn't add so much.
SIMPLE REMEDY: JUST ADD MORE TOMATOES, PROSCUITTO, CHEESE ETC.
PROBABLY DONT NEED TO ADD MORE VINEGAR, MUSTARD, OR OIL.
I made this recipe for my horse trail riding group. There's too much macaroni! I would lessen the macaroni in this recipe to a 1/2 pound if you want to come across eatting some tomatoes and proscuitto.