One Pot Mac n Cheese

Name: How to cook One Pot Mac n Cheese - cookcic.com
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 3-4 servings
Cuisine: Us

Introduce

Chef :

ZMA

One Pot Mac n Cheese

#ATW #cookpadindia A silky, glossy Cheese sauce with some tender, never mushy Macaroni. It's a perfect classic- and it just happens to be in one pot . It would be easy to assume that I make this in one pot for convenience. But I swear that's really not the reason why. The reason I make this in one pot is because the starch released from the Pasta mixes in with the sauce and emulsifies it, creating a Cheese sauce that is silkier and clings better to the Pasta than making it the traditional way ( I.e. Pasta and sauce differently )

Ingredient

Food ration :

3-4 servings

Cooking time :

25-30 minutes

3-4 tbsp

Butter

3 cups

Milk

2 tbsp

All-purpose Flour or Maida

2 cups

water

300 gm

Elbow Pasta or Macaroni

3 cups

Mozzarella and Cheddar Cheese Blend

1 tsp

Salt

1 tsp

Black Pepper powder

1 tbsp

Dry Parsley

1/2 tsp

Mustard powder

1 tsp

Onion powder

1 tsp

Garlic powder

Cooking instructions

* Step 1

Melt butter in a large or medium pot over medium heat. Add flour and cook for one minute.

* Step 2

Add about 3/4th cup of Milk and mix into butter mixture - it will become a slurry pretty quickly. Add remaining Milk and mix so the slurry mixes in. Then add water and seasonings (Garlic powder, Onion powder and Mustard powder)

* Step 3

Add Macaroni and mix. Stir occasionally as it comes to heat. When you see wisps of steam as you stir, lower the heat down to medium low. Stir regularly as it cooks for 9-10 minutes. It also bubbles gently, or until the sauce thickens and the Macaroni is just cooked - tender but still firm. It should be saucy at this stage and thinner as well.

* Step 4

Take it off the heat and stir in the cheese quickly. Adjust salt and pepper to taste. Also in this step, the sauce thickens and reduces considerably. I like to use Mozzarella and Cheddar because I feel this combination tastes better. Serve immediately.

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