Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, bacon mac & cheese. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have bacon mac & cheese using 11 ingredients and 16 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Bacon Mac & Cheese:
- Take 1 pound elbow macaroni
- Get 4 cups milk
- Prepare 2-3 sprigs thyme & some thyme leaves
- Get 4 cloves garlic, finely chopped, divided
- Take 3 tablespoons unsalted butter
- Make ready 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- Take 5 1/2 cups shredded sharp cheddar cheese
- Get Salt & pepper
- Prepare 1/4 cup chopped parsley
- Make ready 1 pound bacon, diced
- Prepare 1 large onion, diced
This is the perfect bacon mac and cheese for those of you who like to enjoy a big bowl for dinner and I left the bacon out of the actual mac n cheese mixture because I wanted it to stay crispy, and. Bacon Mac and Cheese is a rich and creamy three cheese baked mac and cheese with bacon inside and on top. PreparationLesson Plan Cook the pasta in salted boiling water until a little less than al dente. Drain, rinse with cold water, and drain the pasta again.
Instructions to make Bacon Mac & Cheese:
- Bring a pot of salted water to a boil over high heat. Add the macaroni and cook 8-9 minutes, drain and set aside.
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
- In a saucepan heat the milk with the thyme springs and 2 garlic cloves - do not boil you are just infusing the milk with the thyme and garlic flavor.
- In a large deep skillet melt the butter over med-high heat. Whisk in the flour and cook for about 1 minute, stirring constantly, to keep lumps from forming.
- Remove the thyme sprigs from the milk and gently whisk it into the butter flour mixture.
- Continue to whisk vigorously and cook until the mixture is smooth.
- Stir in 4 cups of the cheese and continue to cook and stir to melt the cheese.
- Season with salt and pepper.
- Add the cooked macaroni and parsley, fold together until all the macaroni is coated in cheese.
- Add to a greased baking dish and top with remaining cheese.
- Bake for about 30 minutes.
- While that is baking - in a medium sauté pan, cook the bacon until just getting crispy.
- Remove most of the fat, leave a little for oil.
- Add the onion to the bacon and cook for 5 minutes to soften them.
- Add remaining garlic and thyme leaves and cook for another 5 minutes, set aside.
- To serve top Mac and cheese with bacon mixture and enjoy.
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