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Macaroni and cheese 🧀  #shortvideo



Ingredients

– 500g dried elbow pasta
– 120g unsalted butter
– 70g all-purpose flour
– 1L milk
– 250g medium sharp cheddar cheese, grated
– 250g red Leicester cheese, grated
– 225g grated Gruyere cheese, grated
– Salt to taste
– Black pepper to taste
– 2 tbsp English mustard
– 60g panko breadcrumbs

Method

1. Start by making the cheese sauce. In a med pot over medium-high heat, melt the butter. Once melted, add the flour and whisk. Cook this for 2-3 minutes
2. Slowly add the milk while whisking the whole time.
3. Once you have a smooth sauce, add 3/4 of the grated cheese and melt it into your sauce on medium heat.
4. Once the cheese is melted, season it with salt and pepper and mix in the mustard.
5. Cook the pasta to the packet instructions and once cooked, drain well.
6. Add the cooked and drained pasta back to the pot and pour over the cheese sauce.
7. Mix well and add to an oven-safe dish.
8. Sprinkle a handful of panko breadcrumbs over the top, followed by the remaining grated cheese and then another handful of panko.
9. Bake and 180°c for 30-35 minutes or until golden brown and delicious.

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44 Comments

  1. I never understand why people don't put the pasta on to first then start on the cheese sauce because when you've finished making the cheese sauce the pasta will be ready to pour in and nice and hot. Instead you've made the sauce then put the pasta on having to wait while that cooks before you can do the next step.

  2. Yeah so strainer sitting directly in the sink right over the drain hole is absolutely disgusting. Do you know how steam works? It takes all the nasty and it RISES up into your food. You need to offset the strainer from the drain hole, lift it as high as possible and hold it over the sink for as little time as possible. You are literally finishing your pasta in sink/drain grime. Even if the sink basin is clean the drain isn’t.

  3. If you put an egg or two in the sauce, add some bacon or ham, and then spoon the mixture in a buttered and breaded muffin tin, before topping with cheese, you get these wonderfully firm mac and cheese "muffins" that are brilliant to take to work for lunch. Or even have them for dinner, with a nice side salad.
    They'll heat up easily in the microwave, or eat them cold at a picknick.
    They freeze well too!
    They obviously are denser, but so good!!

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