Orange Zested Macaroni Pasta Salad

Total Time: 8 mins Preparation Time: 8 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 4 cups cooked macaroni or 4 cups other pastas
• 1/2 orange, zest and juice of
• 1 cup mayonnaise
• 1/2 onion, diced very fine
• 2 -4 tablespoons chopped fresh flat-leaf italian parsley, to taste
• 1/2 red bell pepper, diced (optional)
• 2 scallions, diced (optional)
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder (optional)
• 1 teaspoon paprika (optional)
• black pepper
• 1 dash salt

Recipe

• 1 combine ingredients. best with lots of black pepper, in my opinion.
• 2 orange flavor will get stronger as it sits in the fridge. zesting all the peel from the 1/2 orange will make the orange flavor rather strong, especially if you plan to refrigerate before serving.
• 3 if you don't have a zester, crosshatch an area of orange peel with light cuts from a sharp knife, then "shave" the pieces off. it's very easy and with heavy crosshatching yields results comparable to using a good zester.