Old fashioned baked macaroni and cheese

Today we are cooking one of the most popular American dishes – Mac and cheese. This is an unreal pleasure. Abundance of cheese sauce, crunchy crust, and tender pasta.

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Cook Time 20

Total Time 20

Course Main Course

Cuisine American

Servings people

Calories 188 kcal

Equipment

1 mix bowl
1 plate
1 tablespoon
1 grater
1 teaspoon
1 saucepan

Ingredients

250 g pasta
300 ml milk
70 g cheese Russian
70 g cheese Maasdam
50 g butter
1 pinch nutmeg ground
¼ tsp paprika ground smoked
1 tsp flour
½ tsp salt

Instructions

Prepare everything you need. For that meal it is better to choose a hollow pasta with an opening that it is filled with cheese sauce. Cheeses choose on your taste, you can combine some of them.
In a saucepan, boil water, add pasta and salt. Cook after boiling half of the time recommended on the package.
250 g pasta , ½ tsp salt
Grate cheese.
70 g cheese, 70 g cheese
Bechamel sauce preparing the following way: in deep handy dish melt butter and add flour to it.
50 g butter, 1 tsp flour
Mix and wait until the bubbles appear. Immediately pour a milk with tiny trickle, stirring with whisk. This will help to avoid lumps.
300 ml milk
Bring this mixture to boil. Put the cheese, keeping a little for the topping. Spice your meal up. We have nutmeg and smoked paprika.
1 pinch nutmeg, ¼ tsp paprika
Mix the sauce well. If its own temperature is not enough, warm up a bit on the stove to melt the cheese.
Throw back pasta in a strainer, shake them well and put in the sauce. Stir. At this point especially impatient ones can let for yourself a portion and not wait to further activities.
And further will be even more delicious. Put pasta into ceramic molds.
Sprinkle with cheese.
And put it in the oven at 160 degrees for 10 minutes, you also can put it under a griller for cheese crust. And so now, the Mac and cheese is completely ready.

Nutrition

Calories: 188kcalCarbohydrates: 3gProtein: 7gFat: 16gSaturated Fat: 10gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 4gTrans Fat: 0.3gCholesterol: 47mgSodium: 420mgPotassium: 100mgFiber: 0.1gSugar: 3gVitamin A: 567IUVitamin C: 0.01mgCalcium: 231mgIron: 0.1mg

Keyword cheese, dinner