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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 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes
Course Main Course
Cuisine American
Servings 6 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