When the water starts to boil, cover and turn off the heat. Let the eggs cook for 17 minutes. Hard boil the egg by placing an egg in a pan of cold water. 1 cup of mayonnaise, more or less to tasteĭirections for how to make shrimp macaroni salad:.1/2 of a yellow onion, super finely chopped.3 stalks of celery, super finely chopped.Alfonso’s Shrimp Macaroni Salad Ingredients: So chop your onion and celery super fine and you will be amazed at how good this makes it. You never find that with this seafood macaroni salad. Then you have bites that don’t have any onion or celery at all. Imagine taking a bite of some simple macaroni salad and you end up with this rather large clump of onion and or celery, and that’s all you taste in that bite. Most people just rough chop these two ingredients and you get a few big pieces that over-power the flavor in certain bites. Chopping the onion and celery really fine means that both are so well distributed through out the salad that the flavor is spread everywhere and it’s more subtle. Here is why I think it is such a big deal. And for reasons explained below, this makes a HUGE difference. Some people might even say microscopic fine. His secret is that he chops up the onion and celery really fine. His classic macaroni salad contains, yellow onion, celery, hard boiled eggs, shrimp, mustard and mayo. He always has little tricks up his sleeve. I’ve learned to pay close attention to details when I watch my dad cook. But my dad does these little things that sometimes go unnoticed to the average person Here’s The Secret It seems pretty simple on the surface and it is. So I figured it’s time for me to learn dad’s shrimp macaroni salad. He always get’s asked to make it for birthday parties, showers, picnics, and even Christmas.ĭad has 4 grandkids and every one of them requests it for their birthday, every year without fail. My dad makes the best homemade shrimp macaroni salad.Įveryone who eats it, absolutely loves it.

Recipe for classic macaroni salad