The Filipino-ish Chicken Macaroni Salad
When Awesome Jaime officially launched her business, there was a little food partayyy where Tim’s mom prepared a traditional Filipino dish, the chicken macaroni salad. I thought it was possibly one of the nicest things I ate that week.
So I did what anyone would do in my situation: badger Tim’s mom for the recipe until she finally told me, yay!
A chicken macaroni salad? What’s so special about that, you ask? At the heart of it, it’s chicken + macaroni + mayonnaise. I suppose it’s always nice to revisit the basics and appreciate the absolute simplicity of ingredients. Again I’m just trying to fill out virtual white space; come on, everything tastes great with mayonnaise! 
Of course by the time I got down to making it, I’d forgotten most of what Tim’s mom told me. Even the exact taste of it was a blur to me. Well soldier on regardless as I’d already bought the main ingredients. As we say in Malaysia, lantaklah…
So here was what I did: boil chicken breasts for about 20mins then shred them to pieces. Shredding chicken meat is really a thankless job and I don’t look forward to doing it again anytime soon. It really isn’t easy if you’re a slight OCD case like moi…
Cook macaroni according to instructions. After it’s cooked, remove the water then slip in a couple pieces of cheap cheddar slices. ‘Cos I’m too cheap to buy the ridiculously priced good ones.
Getting the chicken and macaroni in a chicken macaroni salad done
Next, add the shredded chicken and raisins together with the macaroni. Normally I hate raisins and would never deign to eat nor use them, but I’ll make an exception for this one.
Putting ingredients together require a full photo
Add salad cream and mayonnaise to the mix. Get a cousin to put in salt + black pepper + sprinkle of whatever dried herbs. If you’re unfortunate enough not to have a cousin like mine who would do these things for you, I suppose you could bloody well do it yourself then!
Adding sunshine and happiness
Mix everything together, mix well. Let it sit in the fridge for a couple of hours before serving.
Eat, nom nom nom nom! Someone’s maid who is Filipino told me that it’s exactly how they do it back home but I feel something was missing. Perhaps it was the lack of onions (Ryan don’t eat raw onions yet) and I went slightly overboard with the salad cream. If you want to give it a go, you should get the proper recipe and methods from This Little Piggy.
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Yay I’m pimped! I def think its the onions. Need some kick. But the ori Filipino ones are all too much on the sweet side for my taste.
Fresh chives also.
Looks delicious!
Goshh, Suan, reading & looking at the pics made me hungry already! Thanks for sharing, this is lovely!
Yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!
Shu: Yeap I think so too, Maybe can try the proper version next time. But I’m not finishing it all hahaha
ST: it was ok. could use onions!
SP: heheh thanks
Delia: anything with mayonnaise is yum
Adding raisins? Can I omit them?
think you need to add something sweet. try another fruit. the original recipe calls for pineapple chunks, but i don’t like pineapples. hehe add whatever you like lah
LOL, I dislike pineapples as well. Let me try green/red apples.
well, it looks so delicious,, but i prefer to eat a macaroni that don’t have an ingredients ( chicken/s) … but in-spite of that I appreciate your effort while making that kind of dessert !!!
MACARONI is the best for me !!! love it so much !!!