Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, creamy greek mac & cheese. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Creamy Greek Mac & cheese is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They are nice and they look fantastic. Creamy Greek Mac & cheese is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook creamy greek mac & cheese using 12 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Creamy Greek Mac & cheese:
- Take 4 tbsp shallots
- Get 2 1/2 cup feta cheese
- Get 1 cup jack cheese (monterey with jalapeno peppers)
- Take 1 cup parmesan cheese
- Make ready 1 can artichoke hearts (chopped)
- Prepare 1 box spinach (drained and chopped)
- Take 2 lb dried pasta (elbow/cavatoppi)
- Get 1 cup panko bread crumbs
- Make ready bechemel sauce
- Make ready 5 cup milk (whole)
- Make ready 1 1/4 cup white flour
- Make ready 2 1/4 stick butter (unsalted)
Instructions to make Creamy Greek Mac & cheese:
- Preheat oven to 400°F
- In large pot boil water with kosher salt (2 tsp) and cook pasta to al dente. Drain and rinse when complete with cold water.
- Using the same large pot with heat off, melt room temperature butter, add flour slowly whisk thoroughly while turning stove low->medium
- Small pot on medium, heat up the milk (3-4 minutes do not burn!)
- Add cup by cup the heated milk to the whisked butter-flour mixture. It will become much thicker just keep whisking and add milk accordingly
- Add the minced shallots, the 3 types of cheese, and drained chopped artichoke hearts & spinach. Keep stirring and add pasta.
- Fold the pasta in and then put in oven safe bowl.
- (Optional): for gooey thick creamy Mac & cheese leave as is. If textured layer, bake Panko bread crumbs for 5 minutes at 400, cool and sprinkle on top of Mac and cheese. Bake again for 15-20 minutes. Check at the 10 minute interval.
How to Improve Your Mood with Food
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Now you know that junk food isn’t necessarily what you have to eat when you want to help your moods get better. Try a few of these instead!
