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Macaroni Mozzarella Bรฉchamel Sauce
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Creamy and rich white sauce covering macaroni and beef sauce.
Recipe type: Main Meal
Ingredients
- Beef Sauce:
- 1lb ground beef
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 onion chopped
- 1 cube chicken bouillon (you can use ½ cup chicken stock and omit the ½ cup water.)
- 1½ tablespoon tomato paste
- ½ teaspoon all spice
- ¼ teaspoon cinnamon powder
- ¼ teaspoon ginger powder
- Salt to taste
- ½ cup water
- Bรฉchamel:
- 4 cups cold milk
- 4 tablespoon all purpose flour
- Salt to taste
- 3 tablespoon butter
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 cup mozzarella cheese
- Macaroni:
- 1 ½ cup uncooked elbow macaroni
Instructions
- Cook elbow macaroni as directed on the box, or boil the elbow macaroni in water, season with salt, and boil for 10 -12 minutes. Drain from water.
- Beef sauce:
- In a pan add the beef first and stir on medium heat for 3 minutes.
- Add onion and stir until water from beef evaporates
- Add oil, spices, salt, chicken bouillon, and tomato paste, stir for 3 minutes. Add the water and cook until the beef is cooked and the sauce is not watery anymore.
- Bรฉchamel sauce
- In a pan add butter and oil, when the butter melts add the flour and stir.
- When flour starts to bubble, add 1 cup of milk and stir, then add the rest of milk and keep stirring until the sauce becomes thicker (it won’t be too thick for now so don’t worry.)
- When the sauce reaches a creamy slightly thick texture, add the cheese and keep stirring. The sauce will now get thicker. Season with salt.
- To assemble the dish:
- In 10” wide pan and 2 ½” – 3” deep, add just enough macaroni to cover the bottom (you should still see a little from the pan’s bottom).
- Add around one cup from the bรฉchamel sauce and mix, distribute evenly.
- Add all the beef sauce and distribute evenly.
- Add the rest of macaroni and distribute evenly.
- Add the rest of bรฉchamel sauce and distribute evenly.
- Insert a spoon in different areas of the dish, this will allow the bรฉchamel (do not stir, it’s like a stabbing motion).
- Bake in a preheated oven 180C/350F for 20 minutes. (if you don’t have a fan in your oven, then use the broiler after the 20 minutes baking to get light brown patches).
- Serve hot.