Almost guilt free mac and cheese
A budget-friendly recipe for Almost Guilt Free Mac and Cheese that covers 31% of your daily vitamins and minerals needs per serving.
Ingredients
elbow macaroni
226.8 g
cauliflower
1 medium Head
chicken breasts
453.59 g
olive oil
2 Tbsps
butter
5 Tbsps
flour
3 Tbsps
mustard
1 Tbsp
soy milk
708 ml
yellow onion
1 medium
bay leaves
2
paprika
0.5 tsps
lemon juice
0.5
fresh thyme leaves
0.25 tsps
garlic powder
0.5 tsps
peppers
0.12 tsps
free range eggs
2
goat cheese
141.75 g
parmigiano reggiano
141.75 g
swiss cheese
170.1 g
panko
60 g
kosher salt
8 servings
black pepper
8 servings
Method
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees Farenheit.
- For Roasted Cauliflower
- Clean core and leaves from cauliflower (you do not have to have any precision when doing this). Chop cauliflower into pieces. Pieces should be roughly 1/2" - 3/4".
- Place chopped cauliflower pieces onto a baking sheet.
- Drizzle olive oil over top of cauliflower and mix to thoroughly coat pieces.
- After 20 minutes, toss cauliflower pieces to brown all sides.
- Bake for another 20 minutes or until edges are browned.
- Remove from oven and lower temperature to 350 degrees Farenheit.
- For Macaroni and Cheese
- In a large pot of boiling and salted water, cook pasta until it is al dente. Once done, drain.
- In another large saucepan, over medium high heat, melt 3 tablespoons of butter. Once melted, whisk in flour. Keep whisking to ensure that there are no lumps. After 5-7 minutes, the butter and flour mixture should be a light caramel color.
- Add the soy milk, bay leaves, paprika, lemon juice, thyme, garlic powder and Szechuan pepper. Stir occasionally for 10 - 15 minutes. The mixture should thicken up.
- Remove bay leaves.
- In a medium size bowl thoroughly mix eggs. Using a 1/4 cup measuring cup, slowly add milk mixture to eggs (temper the eggs). While adding the hot mixture to the eggs, make sure that you keep whisking. Once you have roughly 2 cups of the soy milk mixture in with the eggs, dump everything into the main saucepan and stir.
- Add in 3/4 of the shredded cheeses, and all of the goat cheese, and stir to combine.
- Add in the cooked, diced chicken and roasted cauliflower. Once these are combined, add the cooked pasta and stir thoroughly.
- Season with salt and pepper.
- Pour into a 9"x13" baking pan.
- Cover with remaining cheese.
- Melt 2 tablespoons of butter in a saute pan.
- Add panko bread crumbs and stir to coat all of the crumbs with butter.
- Top the mac and cheese with the panko crumbs and bake for 30 minutes.
- Let rest for 15-20 minutes before serving.
- If you really want to kick up the heat factor in this, you can add tablespoon of Sriracha hot sauce to the mix.
Nutrition:
Carbs
38 g
Fat
30 g
Protein
38 g
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