Macaroni B Crème
30 min.
This salad can be stored in the fridge for up to four days. Make sure that you use either an airtight container or place a layer of plastic wrap over the salad before sealing in a standard container.
Definitely. In fact, the flavors of the salad will keep developing and deepening over time and many believe that it tastes even better when prepared a day in advance.
While this salad goes well with almost anything, keeping it traditional is always recommended. Classic Turkish sides like lahmacun (a flat pizza with minced meat, onion, parsley, peppers and spices), börek (a filo pastry stuffed with cheese, meat and vegetables) or köfte (beef or lamb meatballs cooked over a wood fire). Meze is also a classic in Turkey and this salad can easily be incorporated into any platter, alongside other salads, pickles, roasted vegetables and skewers of chicken, lamb, and even dried fruits.
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Makaronya, as pasta was first named in Turkey, arrived on the Ottoman culinary scene in the late 1700s. Originally imported from Italy, it didn’t take long for the ingredient to become hugely popular and, by the 1830s, the country started to produce its own in the first makarna factory in Üsküdar, Istanbul. This recipe is for one of Turkey’s favorites and you will find colorful pasta salads, infused with fresh ingredients and simple dressings on most restaurant menus and home kitchen tables.
Instead of a full-on dressing, our recipe calls for a simple drizzle of olive oil as a finishing touch that brings the salad together without overpowering its flavors. Replicating some of the salad’s ingredients in a dressing is also a good way to infuse extra flavor and a garlic, lemon, mint, parsley, and olive oil combination is one of our favorites.
Adding a leafy green like baby spinach will bring a subtle new flavor to the salad. Bell peppers, in its wide array of bright colors, is also a common ingredient that can be found in many Turkish recipes and their sweet, slightly bitter taste pairs especially well with this salad’s milder flavors.
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