Lovely people, we are going to make the most incredible mac and cheese! I've got
a recipe for you that's gonna blow your mind.
You interested? Let's do this! First up, a nice big knob of butter into a pan.
Finely slice three of these onions, as the butter comes up to the heat. Fifteen
minutes to make these onions go sweet and gorgeous. Medium-high heat, a stir
every now and again. Beautiful! So after 15 minutes you can see the onions have
shrunk back down, its lightly golden. So I'll take 3 tablespoons of flour and
that's our thickening agent to turn our milk into a silky gorgeous sauce and
that will immediately suck up all of the moisture from the onions and then I've
got a liter of milk. So slowly, slowly we'll add that milk. As
soon as it's absorbed, we'll add some more. So the rest of the milk goes in and
we're gonna let that simmer while we cook the pasta. So of course we're using
macaroni. I'm only gonna cook this for five minutes. I want to half cook the
pasta and then let this simmer while we get on to the other flavorings of this
sauce. So when it comes to choosing the cheese you could do one, of course you
could, but I want to do it my style. Right, I want that balance of flavour, depth of
flavour, and stringiness, ooziness. A hundred grams of cheddar. Now that's a
good flavor and a good melter. Then we're gonna go to a really stringy, gorgeous,
cheese. So this is a raclette, but you could absolutely use a lovely Gruyère.
A hundred grams goes in like that. And then, parmesan. I'll do that on a finer side,
and parmesan just has an amazing ability to join up flavours. Make it all make
sense! Now let's just talk about nutrition. This is not a green dish, but
it is one of the most beautiful things ever! But also as indulgent as this is,
it's a brilliant carrier of seasonal veggies. So, lovely fresh or frozen peas,
bang amazing! Getting asparagus in there, fantastic! Handful of spinach! But today,
we're keeping it really simple and this pasta has had nearly 5 minutes. Get into
this pasta water and steal some of this starchy water and we might need that
later. We've only half cooked the pasta and
there's good reason for that, because when it carries on its journey
of cooking, it's sucking up that flavor not water. So
I'll get that in and I'll save back just a little bit for on top later. A teaspoon
of English mustard, gives it an amazing color and gentle heat. A little hack of a
friend of mine, that they swore by. When I tried it and I did it as a blind taste
because I swore that it wouldn't work and it did! Mango chutney! 1 teaspoon. Slightly
strange but go with it! We're gonna add a little bit of this starchy water, to get
ooziness and silkiness. So it's really important to do this off the heat, we
don't want to be boiling cheese. At this point in the story, we go in with our
macaroni. Give it a nice little toss up! I'm excited, and I forgot one seasoning.
Of course! Worcestershire sauce a good couple of little swigs in there and we
are good to go! We're gonna take this gorgeous, silky, pastery goodness. Look at
that! So that goes in the oven for half an
hour at 200 degrees Celsius which is 400 Fahrenheit. Now what I want to do to make
it even better is contrast that creamy, cheesy, gorgeousness! So we're going to
make a panga tartar. Bacon, herb, garlic. What's not to love? As it starts to get
lightly golden, that is your cue to put the bread crumbs in it. And these
flavored bread crumbs are like a gift on a simple pasta dish. Even lovely stews!
Amazing! These bread crumbs have gone golden and crunchy! They smell amazing!
Come on! Half an hour. Oh, look at that! Come on, mac and cheese beautifulness!
Crack. Come on! You know it makes sense! A few beautiful salad leaves. The ultimate,
smoky bacon, crispy bits. Enough talking let's just eat it! That's
what we want! Nice cheesy bits, hmm!
Like the depth of flavor is off the hook.
One of the things I like to do, which is my own personal problem, is to take a
vulnerable empty gem lettuce leaf and then load it with mac and cheese and I
actually do this at home and my kids are around the table and they're just
looking at me, going "you are such an idiot!" But then, when they try it, they realize that
I'm a missionary! Trying to make the world a better place, through mac and cheese.
Don't judge me! I say no more, but click the link and cook it you'll love it!