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Bake Macaroni

Jerk Chicken

What you need​

I dont know measurements, i just put stuff until my heart is happy with it :)

  • Macaroni or pasta of choice (Shells or Cavatappi work well)
  • Mozzarella Cheese
  • Cheddar Cheese
  • AP Flour
  • Butter
  • Evap milk
  • Cream
  • Dijon Mustard
  • Garlic Powder
  • Paprika
  • Fresh Parsley (jsut to make it look nice nice)

How to make it​

  1. Grate all the cheese up, divide it into 2 bowls and then set aside.

  2. Boil water, salt water, cook pasta till al dente. After the pasta is aldente and drained off, put it in a bowl and throw in a little butter, the garlic powder, paprika, and whatever other spices you want to use. Then set it aside, turn it every so often so that the pasta doesn't stick together.

  3. Start making the roux for the cheese sauce. Melt the butter with some more garlic powder, paprika, and whatever other spices you want to use. When its melted toss in the flour and let the flour cook and get to a golden color and bubbly. Dont take the roux too far here, cause its for a cheese sauce. If you take it to a dark brown roux, youll have a more nutty flavor that can ovepower the cheese, it wont thicken as well, and the cheese sauce gonna be dark dark.

  4. Pour in the evaporated milk, cream, and dijon mustard mixing with a whisk constantly until it thickens. Once thick slowly start adding in the cheese from one of the portions you set aside. Dont add it all in at once, add it in handfulls while stirring the mixture. Try to have it slightly more runny than you would want at this point, cause when it bakes the sauce will thicken up

  5. Once you have the cheese sauce, mix it into the cooked pasta until the pasta is fully coated in and out.

  6. Grease a baking dish, and start layering the pasta into the dish with the final set of reserved cheese. You can also add some breadcrumbs to the top of the macaaroni along with some cheese so it will get a nice crispy, cheesy topping.

  7. Bake at 350F for around 25-30 minutes, then broil it for 1-2 minutes until its the desired color. throw on the fresh parsley so it looks nice and then eat it up

My tip for you​

  • You can bake it covered for the first 25-30 min, just dont put the top layer of cheese yet or else it can stick to the foil and youll be sad when you remove it.