Creamy Macaroni With A Twist Recipes

MACARONI SALAD WITH A TWIST

Steps:

• Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Add pasta, and cook until al dente, 8 to 10 minutes. Drain pasta, but do not rinse. Let stand 5 minutes.
• To make the dressing, combine the mayonnaise, vinegar, sugar, mustard, salt, and pepper in a bowl. Set aside.
• Combine the onion, celery, bell pepper, carrots, and ham in a large bowl. Stir in the dressing. Add the pasta and toss gently to blend all ingredients. Chill at least 4 hours before serving.

CREAMY BAKED MACARONI

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°. Cook macaroni according to package directions; drain. In a large bowl, combine the soup, milk, chives, mustard and hot pepper sauce. Stir in macaroni and cheese. , Spoon into a greased shallow 2-qt. baking dish. Combine bread crumbs and butter; sprinkle over the top. Bake, uncovered, until heated through and bubbly, 25-30 minutes.

CREAMY MACARONI AND CHEESE

Steps:

• Bring 2 quarts of water to boil in large soup kettle. Add salt and pasta. Using package directions as a guide, cook until al dente. Drain. To prevent sticking, drain and immediately pour onto a large lipped baking sheet and let cool while preparing sauce.
• Meanwhile, microwave the milk and chicken broth in a 4-cup Pyrex measuring cup or bowl until hot and steamy (not boiling). Melt butter in the empty pasta pot; whisk in flour, then hot milk mixture. Continue to whisk until thick and bubbly, 3 to 4 minutes. Whisk in mustard, Parmesan and pepper. Turn off heat, stir in cheddar until melted.
• Add drained pasta (and optional flavoring ingredients, see notes) to sauce, and stir until everything is well combined over low heat. Stir to heat through, and thin with a little water if the sauce is too thick. Serve hot.

MACARONI AND CHEESE WITH A TWIST

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• Lightly spray a 2 1/2 quart caserole dish with cooking spray.
• Heat oil in a pan over medium heat, and saute the onion until soft, about 5 minutes.
• Place onions in a blender or food processor with the milk, tofu, lemon juice, miso, hot sauce, turmeric, and salt and pepper.
• Process until well blended.
• Take a taste and adjust any of the seasonings as needed, then set aside.
• Cook rotini in a large pot of boiling salted water until just under al dente (I'd say about 6-7 minutes).
• Drain pasta and add the sauce from the blender and half of the grated cheese.
• Combine well.
• Place pasta into the caserole dish, and top with the breadcrumbs and the remaining cheese.
• Cover with foil and bake for 30 minutes.
• Uncover and bake until the top is lightly browned, 5 to 10 minutes longer.
• Let sit about 5 to 10 minutes before serving.

MAC N CHEESE WITH A TWIST

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 200c. After all the ingredients have been measured, put the butter in a steel saucepan and melt it. Once the butter has been melted, stir in the flour. After the butter has been absorbed by the flour, pour in the milk.
• Using a balloon whisk, you have to mix the sauce constantly, not allowing it to stick. after roughly 5 minutes, you should feel the sauce starting to thicken, once it coats the back of a spoon, take it off the heat and stir in the cheese, parsley and mustard.
• Next, separately heat a pan with oil in it and cook the onion until is is translucent with the garlic. Then add the pepper, chilli and mushrooms and cover and cook for a couple of minutes.
• Once the pepper has been cooked and the mushrooms have shrunk considerably uncover and mix in the tarragon, salt and pepper.
• In another pan of boiling water, add the pasta and cook as specified on the pack of pasta and drain.
• Pour the sauce onto the pasta and then fold in the vegetables making sure not to break up the pasta. Put the pasta is an oven proof serving dish and put in the oven for 20 mins or until browned.
• Whilst the pasta is in the oven, grill the bread slices in the grill; this will dry out the bread. halfway through the cooking time, cover the dish with foil and put back in the oven.
• in a food processor grind the dried bread into bread crumbs and sprinkle ontop of the macaroni cheese once it has been removed from the oven.
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CREAMY MACARONI 'N' CHEESE

Steps:

• In a large microwave-safe bowl, cover and microwave onion on high for 1 minute or until tender; drain. Add the macaroni, cheddar cheese and parsley; set aside., In a blender, combine the milk, cottage cheese, mustard, salt and pepper; cover and process until smooth. Stir into macaroni mixture., Pour into a 1-1/2-qt. baking dish coated with cooking spray. Bake, uncovered, at 350° for 20-25 minutes or until lightly browned.

CREAMY MACARONI WITH A TWIST

Steps:

• Cook the pasta until "al dente," drain and set aside.
• In the same pot you cooked the pasta, stir in the butter and let it melt. When butter has melted, add sour cream, milk chicken bouillon, salt & pepper, and blend. When it's blended, add the corn, bell pepper, and the pasta.
• Stir carefully, and let it warm.
• Serve as a side dish, or alone as a light lunch.