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Homemade Family Macaroni and Cheese

Homemade Family Macaroni and Cheese recipe idea. A South African oven baked casserole dish with garlic and bacon, for lunch or dinner.
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Homemade Family Macaroni and Cheese recipe idea. A South African oven baked casserole dish with garlic and bacon, for lunch or dinner.

  • Author: FillMyRecipeBook
  • Prep Time: 15 min
  • Cook Time: 1 hour
  • Total Time: 1hrt 15 min
  • Yield: 10
  • Category: Meals, supper or lunch, dinner
  • Method: Oven Baking
  • Cuisine: South african

Ingredients

  1. 750 g of elbow macaroni noodles. (I prefer the small open tubes, but any type you like will do, hollow tubes ones obtain some ingredients in and that makes it good.)
  2. 1 teaspoon, Himalayan Salt and pepper (as per other bakers, a generous helping of salt when boiling your pasta)
  3. lots of garlic flakes or crushed garlic cloves.
  4. 250 g bacon —-(optional, not for vegetarian)
  5. 4 tomato chopped. (normally add the tomato and onion mix from a can, but if you do not have that then sauté the chopped onion and tomato till tender and use)
  6. 250 g mushrooms sliced.
  7. 900 g cheddar and Mozzarella cheese grated (mixed or as preferred)
  8. 1 liter cream (or milk or even evaporated milk) OR dilute half and half
  9. 6 to 8 eggs
  10. dried parsley or basil leaves or Italian spices.

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 180 to 200 deg. C (360 Deg. – 400 Deg. F)
  2. Fill a medium cooking pot with water for the boiling of the pasta. Bring to boil with added salt, and place pasta in and cook for a few minutes. (depending on the pasta used)
  3. Chop tomato and onion, sauté in pan with olive oil or coconut oil, till soft. Sauté mushrooms and add to the tomato and onion mix. Put aside. Or if preferred place the tomato and onion in a blender with small amount of liquid blend.
  4. Chop up bacon to inch size pieces when frozen, sauté in pan.
  5. Use a nice large Pyrex glass bowl for the dish.
  6. Then layer half the pasta at bottom of the dish.
  7. Generously sprinkle garlic flakes(or fresh garlic, chopped)
  8. Sprinkle lightly a layer of cheese over the pasta. (not to much.)
  9. Then layer tomato, onion and mushroom mix, over the pasta, (using half of the mixture) 
  10. Layer cooked cut up bacon over the tomato and onion and mushroom mix. Leaving some bacon for the top layer.
  11. Layer the rest of the pasta over this mixture and sprinkle more garlic over the pasta.
  12. Then left over layer of tomato and onion and mushroom mix over pasta.
  13. left over bacon on top.
  14. Sprinkle the rest of the cheese on the top generously, the cheese must cover the top. Spice it up with parsley or basil dried leaves. For color and taste. Decorate with a ring of red onions, or as you please.
  15. Then whisk up the eggs and cream and milk with salt and pepper. Pour mix over the dish until it is soaked up and almost level with the top and all the macaroni’s are covered with the mixture.
  16. The dish ready for baking. Place on lower rack of the oven to bake. At 200 Deg. C Till brown on top. For about an hour.
  17. I normally heat the oven up higher to cook quicker if its a large bowl of macaroni.
  18. To check that its cooked you will see through the glass that all liquid is firm.
  19. Serve with salad of choice and our choice some tomato sauce.

Notes

A casserole dish can be changed to the families taste, add different ingredients to the dish. The basics stay the same. 

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