Today on Chef's Advice, we will be sharing our Recipe on how to make a Gluten Free Macaroni and Cheese at Home with minimal ingredients and healthy variants. Mac and Cheese has always been one of my favorite go-to snack, whenever I am hungry or bored :-p
It is a Dish that is very popular in the United States and the UK, it is also known as macaroni cheese or mac n cheese. Regardless, it tastes amazing! with the right amount of Cheese, Boiled Macaroni and some herbs, you might go to heaven after eating it!
How to make Mac and Cheese
Ingredient Checklist
Cooking pasta
1. Take 1 cup macaroni pasta or elbow macaroni (100 grams)
2. Cook the pasta as per the instructions on the package. I first heated 4 cups water, plus ½ teaspoon salt to a vigorous boil and then added the pasta.
3. Cook the pasta until it is just cooked. It should not get too soft.
4. Drain the pasta in a strainer.
Directions
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Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease a 9x13-inch baking dish.
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Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Cook elbow macaroni in the boiling water, stirring occasionally until cooked through but firm to the bite, 8 minutes. Drain.
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Melt 1/4 cup butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Stir salt and mustard powder into melted butter and remove saucepan from heat.
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Whisk milk and cornstarch together in a bowl until smooth; stir into butter mixture until well blended. Return saucepan to stove; cook milk mixture, stirring constantly, over medium heat until sauce is thickened, about 5 minutes. Remove saucepan from heat.
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Stir 3 cups Cheddar cheese into sauce until heat from sauce melts cheese. Add pasta to cheese sauce and stir well; pour into the prepared baking dish.
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Combine remaining 1 cup Cheddar cheese, gluten-free bread crumbs, 1 teaspoon butter, and paprika in a bowl; sprinkle over pasta mixture.
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Bake in the preheated oven until top is crunchy, about 30 minutes.