Todays recipe is a classic: Mac & Cheese. Warming comfort food that comes just in time with this grey and wet weather outside. The recipe serves 4:
Ingredients:
250g short macaroni, 4 hard-boiled eggs (diced), 1 minced onion, 4 cherry tomatoes (quartered), 3 TblSps breadcrumbs, 150g grated cheese, 40g butter, 5 TblSps flour, lemon thyme, salt, pepper, cayenne pepper
Preparation:
Preheat the oven to 200°C and cook the macaroni and the minced onion in salted water until the noodles are al dente. Drain the noodles, BUT preserve the cooking water – you will need it for the cheese-sauce.
Heat the butter; add the thyme and the flour and fry for one minute. Add spoonfuls of reserved cooking water until the sauce has a nice consistence. Melt the cheese in the sauce. Season to taste.
Put everything – noodles, sauce, eggs and tomatoes – into an earthenware dish. Sprinkle over the breadcrumbs. Bake in the preheated oven for about 20 minutes.
Enjoy!
Mac and Cheese (pdf for print)
All pics are made by Franzi. Ha 🙂